Grants / Department of Justice / National Institute of Corrections

21PR07: VILT Training and Facilitation for Implementing a Classification Revalidation Instrument

Closed Closed April 27, 2021 Opportunity 21PR07 ☆ Save

This grant is closed. Who won this program's grants before is below, and similar open grants are at the end of the page. It is in our archive of National Institute of Corrections notices from 2021.

• Award ceiling$94,000
• Total funding$94,000
• 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 the entity with primary responsibility for administering the funding and managing the entire program.

Is this a realistic fit?

• No cost sharing or match is required.

What the grant funds

For the past several years, there has been an increasing number of requests from correctional agencies for the National Institute of Corrections to provide technical assistance in the area of revalidation of their classification instruments. Many correctional systems have found themselves struggling to manage their population properly (i.e., mandatory minimums, overcrowding, changing demographics, diverse and special need populations). These challenges have shed light on the need to revalidate the assessment to accurately reflect the current population. To add to their distress, the COVID 19 pandemic has created a new classification challenge, as states wrestled to balance the reduction of the confined population against assessing the threat to public safety. Additionally, training and programming have been eliminated or reduced, and are no longer effective aids for agencies in the reduction of sentences. In light of dwindling budgets, many agencies have not be able to prioritize the classification revalidation process.

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.

Applying now

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