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FUNDING OPPORTUNITY ADVISORY
Funds Available for Offender Reentry Into
Communities
Applications are now being
accepted for grants up to $2 million each under the new Serious and Violent
Offender Reentry Initiative. A collaboration among the Departments of
Education, Health and Human Services, Housing and Urban Development, Justice
and Labor, the initiative supports efforts to ensure public safety by helping
returning offenders become productive members of their communities.? A total of at least $100 million will be
available, with the goal of funding at least one site per state.? Additional sites will be funded based on
available resources.? The application
deadline is May 15, 2002.??
The Serious and Violent Offender
Reentry Initiative will help communities combine close supervision with
services to help ex-offenders become law-abiding citizens, gain long-term
employment and maintain a stable residence.
The initiative targets communities with reentry efforts that involve
public-private partnerships.? Funds will
be used to address specific needs that cannot be met with existing federal,
state and local resources.? Assistance will
be provided in the application process to help potential grantees access these
existing resources, which total in the hundreds of millions of dollars.?
Reentry efforts will involve close
coordination among corrections staff, law enforcement, probation/parole
officers, workforce investment boards and other community-based service
providers.? Work will begin while offenders
are still in correctional facilities, continue through offenders? transition
back into the community, and help sustain ex-offenders through services such as
job training and substance abuse treatment.
Efforts will be tailored to any one, or combination of, the following
age groups: Youth (ages 14 ‑ 17); Young Adult (ages 18 ‑ 24) and
Adult (ages 25+).
To obtain a copy of the Serious
and Violent Offender Reentry Initiative Application Package, see the
Reentry section of the Office of Justice Programs? (OJP) Website at www.ojp.usdoj.gov/reentry
or contact the Department of Justice Response Center at?
1-800/421-6770.
Media and Congressional staff
should contact the OJP Office of Congressional and Public Affairs at
202/307-0703.
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