Almost $70 million in grant funding is available from the Office of Justice Programs (OJP) to help support successful reentry of adult and juvenile offenders into their communities. A number of funding opportunities are currently open, including the following from BJA:
- Correctional Adult Reentry Education, Employment, and Recidivism Reduction Strategies (CAREERRS) Program
- Improving Reentry for Adults with Substance Use Disorders Program
- Improving Community Supervision Outcomes Through Swift, Certain, and Fair Responses
- Innovations in Supervision Initiative: Building Capacity to Create Safer Communities
- Innovations in Reentry Initiative: Building System Capacity & Testing Strategies to Reduce Recidivism
- Second Chance Act Community-based Reentry Program
- Second Chance Act Evaluation Participation Support
- Second Chance Act Pay for Success Initiative: Outcomes-based Contracting To Lower Recidivism and Address Substance Use Disorders Through Reentry and Housing Services
- Second Chance Act Training and Technical Assistance Program
View the OJP press release to learn more about the OJP funding opportunities available to support reentry efforts. See the BJA Available Funding page for details about and application deadlines for the above BJA opportunities and others.
Date Published: April 6, 2020