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O-BJA-2021-98001: BJA FY 21 Second Chance Act: Adult Reentry Education, Employment, Treatment and Recovery Program

Closed Closed June 22, 2021 Opportunity O-BJA-2021-98001 ☆ Save

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• Award ceiling$900,000
• Total funding$24.3 million
• Expected awards27
• Cost sharingNot required
• Funding typeGrant

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Who can apply

This opportunity was open to nonprofits, state and local governments and tribes.

For purposes of this solicitation, the term “State” means any state of the United States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Virginia Islands, Guam, American Samoa, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands. (See 34 U.S.C. 10251.) Eligible applicants may submit only one application per category but may apply to more than one category. To advance Executive Order 13929 Safe Policing for Safe Communities, as of October 28, 2020, the Attorney General determined that all state, local, and university or college law enforcement agencies must be certified by an approved independent credentialing body or have started the certification process to be allocated FY 2021 DOJ discretionary grant funding, as either a recipient or a subrecipient. For detailed information on this new certification requirement, please visit https://cops.usdoj.gov/SafePolicingEO. All recipients and subrecipients (including any for-profit organization) must forgo any profit or management fee.

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Is this a realistic fit?

• Past Second Chance Act Reentry Initiative awards averaged $898,947; this notice allows up to $900,000 per award.
• Most of the program's money (59% over five years) went to nonprofits.
• No cost sharing or match is required.

What the grant funds

The Department of Justice is committed to advancing work that promotes civil rights, increases access to justice, supports crime victims, protects the public from crime and evolving threats, and builds trust between law enforcement and the community. The Second Chance Act: Adult Reentry Education, Employment, Treatment and Recovery Program is designed to improve correctional educational and employment services for general inmate populations and to improve treatment services for offenders with substance use disorders. This will in turn help reduce recidivism, and promote public safety and recovery.

Applying now

This notice no longer takes applications. Agencies often post the same opportunity again under a new number, so check the program's notices on Grants.gov and the similar open grants below.

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