Through this opportunity, the Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) seeks applications for reentry services and programs focused on strengthening education and employment outcomes for individuals returning to their communities after a period of incarceration.
Solicitation Categories:
- Category 1: Improving Correctional Education
- Category 2: Improving Employment Services and Connections
Eligible Applicants:
- City or township governments
- County governments
- For profit organizations other than small businesses
- Independent school districts
- Native American tribal governments (federally recognized)
- Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
- Nonprofits that do not have a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
- Public and state controlled institutions of higher education
- Special district governments
- State governments
- Other
- Community-based nonprofit organizations
See the solicitation for additional opportunity and eligibility details, as well as directions on how to apply.
Awards
Number of Awards: 26
Total Amount Awarded: $23,030,094
California Transfer Pathways: Expanding Pathways During and After Incarceration to University of California Bachelor’s Degrees
Dannon Project: A Chance for Everyone
Degrees in Hand – A Prison to Career Pathway Program
Driving Career Equity Through Skills Program
Educating and Motivating Purposeful Opportunities with Employment in Re-entering Black Men (EMPOWER Black Men)
Employment & Trauma-based Care for Youth/Young Adults with Behavioral Health Disorders in the Juvenile Justice System
Growing Justice: A Prison-based Vertical Farm Job Training Pilot in South Carolina
Hawkeye Community College PEER Program
Improving Reentry Education and Employment Outcomes
Improving Statewide Employment Services and Connections within the State of Vermont's Department of Corrections
Intersecting Meaningful Placement and Career Training (IMPACT) Initiative
Job Opportunities and Basic Skills (JOBS)
Kent State University Prison Reentry program
KLF KnoxWorx SCA Improving Employment Services
Miami Dade College's North Campus 2nd Chance Improving Reentry Education and Employment Outcomes Program
Next Chance to Improve Employment and Connection Services
Operation New Hope - Ready4Release and Ready4Work Reentry Programs
Oregon DOC Braille Transcription Training & Employment Services Program
Out4Work Reentry Services in the Franklin County Correction Centers
Pelican Bay Communication BA Program
Postsecondary Degree Programming for Justice Involved Students in Southeast Arkansas
Prison to College Program
Puuhonua Hoala Hou: Awakening in Our Path
The Accelerated College Transition Project of LaGuardia Community College (ACT)
Upward Opportunities - A Pathway from Custody to College.
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