FY 2008 Prisoner Reentry Initiative Grant Awards
Overview:
The Reentry Initiative is supported by the U.S. Department of Justice's Office of Justice Programs (OJP) and its federal partners: the U.S. Departments of Education, Health and Human Services, Housing and Urban Development, and Labor. This initiative is a comprehensive effort that addresses both juvenile and adult populations of serious, high-risk offenders. It provides funding to develop, implement, enhance, and evaluate reentry strategies that will ensure the safety of the community and the reduction of serious, violent crime. This is accomplished by preparing targeted offenders to successfully return to their communities after having served a significant period of secure confinement in a state training school, juvenile or adult correctional facility, or other secure institution.
The Reentry Initiative envisions the development of model reentry programs that begin in correctional institutions and continue throughout an offender's transition to and stabilization in the community. These programs provide for individual reentry plans that address issues confronting offenders as they return to the community. The initiative encompasses three phases and is implemented through appropriate programs:
Phase 1-Protect and Prepare: Institution-Based Programs. These programs are designed to prepare offenders to reenter society. Services provided in this phase include education, mental health and substance abuse treatment, job training, mentoring, and full diagnostic and risk assessment.
Phase 2-Control and Restore: Community-Based Transition Programs. These programs work with offenders prior to and immediately following their release from correctional institutions. Services provided in this phase include, as appropriate, education, monitoring, mentoring, life-skills training, assessment, job-skills development, and mental health and substance abuse treatment.
Phase 3-Sustain and Support: Community-Based Long-Term Support Programs. These programs connect individuals who have left the supervision of the justice system with a network of social services agencies and community-based organizations to provide ongoing services and mentoring relationships.
Funding: FY 2008 funding has not yet been determined. FY 2007 funding was approximately $13.7 million.
How To Apply: The FY 2008 solicitation was released on December 12, 2007, and applications were due January 8, 2008. Applicants must apply through Grants.gov.
Reentry projects include:
- Justice Reinvestment
- Gang Member Reentry
- Attorney General's 10 City Comprehensive Anti-Gang Initiative
- President's Prisoner Reentry Initiative
- Housing Partnerships to Enhance Reentry
- The Role of Parole in Reentry
- Reentry of Offenders with Mental Illness
- Issues in Reentry from Jail
- Corrections/Faith- and Community-Based Collaboration
Training/Technical Assistance: The following agencies and organizations provide training and technical assistance that may be of use to those developing reentry programs:
Gang Member Reentry Assistance Project
American Probation and Parole Association
Center for Effective Public Policy
Community Capacity Development Office
Council of State Governments, Justice Center
OJJDP Intensive Aftercare Programs: Juvenile Reintegration and Aftercare Center
OJJDP National Training and Technical Assistance Center
Re-Entry Policy Council
Urban Institute
State Activities and Resources: An online map that provides information—by state—about OJP reentry grantees, state resources and contacts, and other OJP resources.
Reentry Resource Map: An online map that provides information on resources at the federal, state, and local levels.
Related Publications:
Increasing Public Safety Through Successful Offender Reentry: Evidence-Based and Emerging Practices in Corrections
Repaying Debts (Summary or Full Report)
Offender Reentry: A Police Perspective and other International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) resources
Building An Offender Reentry Program: A Guide for Law Enforcement
Report of the Re-Entry Policy Council
"Short-Term Strategies To Improve Reentry of Jail Populations: Expanding and Implementing the APIC Model" (PDF, from American Jails, January/February 2007)
A list of related publications is available online and updated periodically.
Related Information:
Prisoner Reentry Initiative (PRI) (FY 2008 Competitive Grant Announcement)
Frequently Asked Questions
FY 2007 Prisoner Reentry Initiative Grant Awards
Prisoner Reentry Initiative (FY 2007 Competitive Grant Announcement)
Prisoner Reentry Initiative Training and Technical Assistance Program (Competitive Grant Announcement)
Frequently Asked Questions
FY 2006 Prisoner Reentry Initiative Grant Awards
Prisoner Reentry Initiative (FY 2006 Competitive Grant Announcement)
FY 2004 awards
Serious and Violent Offender Reentry Initiative (FY 2004 Supplemental Funding Application)
FY 2002 Reentry Grantees
Related Links:
Reentry Initiative web site
Reentry Policy Council Information Center
Serious and Violent Offender Reentry Initiative (SVORI) Multi-site Evaluation web site
Contact Information:
Thurston Bryant, Policy Advisor
Bureau of Justice Assistance
810 Seventh Street NW.
Washington, DC 20531
202-514-8082
Fax: 202-307-0036
E-mail: thurston.bryant@usdoj.gov
