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23CS18: Facilitating Behavior Change Training 2.0

Closed Closed July 31, 2023 Opportunity 23CS18 ☆ Save

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• Award ceiling$1.0 million
• Total funding$1.0 million
• 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. Foreign governments, international organizations, and non-governmental international organizations/institutions are not eligible to apply. Proof of 501(c) (3) status as determined by the Internal Revenue Service or an authorizing tribal resolution is required.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. Only one (1) application will be accepted from a submitting organization.

Is this a realistic fit?

• No cost sharing or match is required.

What the grant funds

By the end of 2018, probation supervision populations grew to 4.4 million while parole supervision populations grew to over 800,000; however, we have seen a slow decline in this number in recent years (Kaeble and Alper 2020).[1] In response to these numbers, the community supervision profession has used both risk management and behavioral change strategies to manage probation and parole populations; however, recent correctional research favors the use of core correctional interventions as they consistently facilitate reductions in recidivism when applied correctly. Based on social learning theory, Core Correctional Practices (CCPs) are behavioral change strategies designed to improve the outcomes of therapeutic interventions for persons under community supervision. Andrews and Kiessling (1980) introduced CCPs as five distinct practices: (1) effective use of authority, (2) prosocial modeling and reinforcement, (3) problem solving, (4) use of community resources, and (5) quality of interpersonal relationships between staff and offenders.[2] Studies have shown that staff who use CCPs while interacting with individuals under their supervision produce positive outcomes. CCPs help staff specifically target both cognitive and behavioral aspects of antisocial behaviors. The success of CCPs has led to the development of several training curricula incorporating CCPs and has created demand for this type of training. However, most of these curricula assume that an organization is ready to implement CCPs and has the desired environment to support these practices. The reality is that some community supervision organizations struggle to implement CCPs because they are operating in environments that promote compliance-driven practices enforced by punitive responses to non-compliant behavior. Members of the Executive Sessions on Community Corrections at the Harvard Kennedy School explored the role of community corrections, and after much deliberation, they developed a vision and provided essential guidance to change practices through comprehensive paradigm shifts.

Category: Other.

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