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24PR02: Civility in the Correctional Workplace

Closed Closed February 13, 2024 Opportunity 24PR02 ☆ Save

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• Award ceiling$200,000
• Total funding$200,000
• 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. 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

Many people today are aware of the challenges that employers are facing to recruit, hire, and retain quality staff. The correctional workplace is no different. Although looking into the hiring practices of correctional institutions is a worthy cause, this cooperative agreement looks more generally at retaining staff by adding more civility into the correctional workplace. Workplace incivility describes the subtle and obvious behaviors that are generally rude, discourteous, and suggesting of a lack of respect for others. When unchecked, incivility erodes an organization’s culture and adversely affects the well-being of those who are the targets of uncivil behavior. Workplace incivility needs to be challenged and talked about openly. Knowing the causes of incivility, its consequences, and how to promote civility in the workplace can help correctional leaders and employees build psychologically safe environments where everyone grows and thrives. In the correctional environment, incivility in the workplace has a far greater consequence than just losing good staff. In the two-part webinar series for this project, NIC Correctional Program Specialist Christopher Smith said, “I think that civility is not just the mere absence of incivility or conflict, but instead it is the intentional effort made toward creating a correctional workplace that is built on the idea that by purposefully lifting each other up, we strive for safer correctional facilities for staff, justice-involved individuals, and the general public. Likewise, incivility is not merely the lack of civility, but it is the workplace that is run with unintentionality or lack of concern toward staff wellness. It is the idea that if you’re not lifting people up then by definition you are either pushing them down or allowing them to fall and fail.” Incivility in the correctional workplace can lead to staff abuse of sick leave, alcohol/drug abuse, increase in medical challenges, an increase in mental health concerns, shortened life spans after retiring or leaving the correctional workplace, and an increase in suicide rates. Not to mention the tertiary effect on incarcerated men and women and their rehabilitation rates when they are housed at a facility that has a high level of incivility.

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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