U.S. Attorney David C. Joseph, Grants for Prisoner Re-Entry, Louisiana 2020

SHREVEPORT/LAFAYETTE/ALEXANDRIA/LAKE CHARLES/MONROE, La. – U.S. Attorney David C. Joseph of the Western District of Louisiana today announced that nearly $60 million in grants is available to help communities address public safety by supporting successful reentry of adult and juvenile offenders into their communities.

These funds are designed to assist those who have paid their debt to society successfully transition back into their communities, said U.S. Attorney Joseph. I encourage organizations that are active in this effort to learn more about these grants and to apply.

Our nation is facing difficult public safety challenges that demand strong and immediate action, said Katharine T. Sullivan, Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Justice Programs. The high rate of recidivism poses a dire threat to community safety and is being met with a robust response by this Administration, she added.

The funding is available through OJP, the federal government’s leading source of public safety funding and crime victim assistance in state, local and tribal jurisdictions. OJP’s programs support a wide array of activities and services, including adult and juvenile reentry initiatives and research projects designed to improve our knowledge of what works in reentry programming.

A number of funding opportunities are currently open, with several more opening in the near future. Some of the funding opportunities include:

Correctional Adult Reentry Education, Employment, and Recidivism Reduction Strategies Program – https://bja.ojp.gov/funding/opportunities/bja-2020-17104 – Total Available $7.2 million – Deadline 4/27/2020

Improving Community Supervision Outcomes Through Swift, Certain, and Fair Responses – https://bja.ojp.gov/funding/opportunities/bja-2020-17096 – Total Available $3 million – Deadline 4/28/2020

Improving Reentry for People with Substance Use Disorders Program – https://bja.ojp.gov/SCASUD20 – Total Available $13.2 million – Deadline 4/27/2020

Innovations in Reentry Initiative: Building System Capacity & Testing Strategies to Reduce Recidivism – https://bja.ojp.gov/funding/opportunities/bja-2020-17281 – Total Available $4 million – Deadline 5/4/2020

Research and Evaluation on Promising Reentry Initiatives – https://nij.ojp.gov/funding/opportunities/nij-2020-17295 – Total Available $6 million – Deadline 5/5/2020

Review and Validation of the First Step Act Risk Assessment Tool – https://nij.ojp.gov/funding/opportunities/nij-2020-fsa – Total Available: Determined after selection – Deadline 4/10/2020

Second Chance Act Community-Based Reentry Program – https://bja.ojp.gov/funding/opportunities/bja-2020-17110 – Total Available $13.5 million – Deadline 5/4/2020

Second Chance Act Evaluation Participation Support – https://bja.ojp.gov/funding/opportunities/bja-2020-17680 – Total Available $4 million – Deadline 4/28/2020

Second Chance Act Youth Offender Reentry Program – https://ojjdp.ojp.gov/sites/g/files/xyckuh176/files/media/document/ojjdp-2020-17350.pdf – Total Available $7 million – Deadline 4/28/2020

For more information regarding all OJP funding opportunities, visit: https://www.ojp.gov/funding/explore/current-funding-opportunities.

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