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21CS03: Gender Responsive Policy and Practices (GRPPA) Virtual Training on Model and Site Implementation

Closed Closed March 15, 2021 Opportunity 21CS03 ☆ Save

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• Award ceiling$55,000
• Total funding$55,000
• Expected awards1
• Cost sharingNot required
• Funding typeCooperative Agreement

Key dates

Who can apply

This opportunity was open to the applicants described in the notice.

• Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification)

NIC invites applications from nonprofit organizations (including faith-based, community, and tribal organizations), for-profit organizations (including tribal for-profit organizations), and institutions of higher education (including tribal institutions of higher education). Recipients, including for-profit organizations, must agree to waive any profit or fee for services.NIC welcomes applications that involve two or more entities; however, one eligible entity must be the applicant and the others must be proposed as subrecipients. The applicant must be

Is this a realistic fit?

• No cost sharing or match is required.

What the grant funds

The GRPPA model was designed for agencies to internally review and observe policy, practice and programming to gauge current and/or future capacity to deliver research based gender-responsive services for justice involved women. A common request from correctional agencies, institutions, and community corrections locations is “where do we start to improve our practices working with women in our care”? The GRPPA is a downloadable multi-step guide to assist agencies to do just that. The guide can be found at: https://nicic.gov/gender-responsive-policy-practice-assessment and will include instructions on developing internal work groups and tasks, identifying types of research and data to be collected, the GRPPA manual, facilitation instructions, scoring guide, post assessment activities, and the prioritizing and development of an action plan. Additional resources include fact sheets and data sources regarding justice involved women. The awardee will work with selected community corrections (probation, parole, community based supervision) agency teams in the application of the GRPPA model to assess current policies and programs and plan for development of or enhancement of practices in the supervision of women in the community. The rate of women entering the correctional systems has been exceeding that of men since approximately 1980. Women comprise about 25% of the probation population and about 13% of the parole population. Policy and practice within corrections, whether it is in institutional or community settings, are designed for the predominant population, male, and many of those practices have less applicability for females and in fact may be detrimental. Agencies are mindful of those differences as they observe the number of females failing on community supervision, not necessarily for new offenses, rather for technical violations, unfortunately at higher rates than their male counterparts. The good news is that there is significant research regarding the risk and needs presented by women, yet community supervision practices generally don’t recognize those differences. Issues experienced by women on supervision often include economic, transportation and housing challenges, lack of/or underemployment, childcare needs, experiences of intrapersonal violence, medical and mental health complications.

Category: Other.

We found no grant awards under Assistance Listing 16.601 in fiscal 2021 to 2025, which usually means the program is new or very small.

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