Second Chance Act: Responding to the FY 2017 Solicitation for Smart Supervision: Reducing Prison Populations, Saving Money, and Creating Safer Communities Juliene James, Senior Policy Advisor, Bureau of Justice Assistance, U.S. Department of Justice Chidi Umez, Senior Policy Analyst, Corrections & Reentry Council of State Governments Justice Center
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Agenda Grant Program Overview Program Requirements & Expectations Application & Selection Criteria Resources & Important Contacts
The Council of State Governments Justice Center • • •
A national non-profit, non-partisan membership association of state government officials. Engages members of all three branches of state government. Provides practical, nonpartisan advice informed by the best available evidence.
The Second Chance Act • Public Law 110-199 signed into law on April 8, 2008. • Authorizes grants to state, local, and tribal governments and nonprofit organizations to support programs, policies and practices that reduce recidivism.
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The NRRC is a project of the CSG Justice Center and is supported by the Bureau of Justice Assistance. NRRC staff have worked with over 600 SCA grantees, including 40 state corrections agencies. The NRRC provides individualized, intensive, and targeted technical assistance, training, and distance learning to support SCA grantees.
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The Second Chance Act: Current Funding Opportunities – Smart Supervision: Reducing Prison Populations, Saving Money, and Creating Safer Communities: https://www.bja.gov/funding/smartsupervision17.pdf – Smart Reentry: Focus on Evidence-based Strategies for Successful Reentry from Incarceration to Community: https://www.bja.gov/Funding/SmartReentry.pdf – Reentry Program for Adults with Co-Occurring Substance Use and Mental Disorders: https://www.bja.gov/Funding/SCACOD.pdf •
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SCA Smart Supervision Grant Program Total Amount Awarded
Total Number of Awards
$5,306,912.00
8
FY 2016 FY 2015
7
$4,771,344.00
FY 2014
7
$4,558,858.00 $3,837,793.00
6
FY 2013
9
FY 2012 0
2
4
6
8
$3,675,366.00 10
SCA Smart Supervision Grant Program 37 AWARDS ACROSS THE NATION
13 County Grantees 21 State Grantees 3 City Grantees 8
Agenda Grant Program Overview Program Requirements & Expectations Application & Selection Criteria Resources & Important Contacts
Bureau of Justice Assistance • Mission: to provide leadership and services in grant administration and criminal justice policy development to support local, state, and tribal justice strategies to achieve safer communities. The Second Chance Act has supported over $300 million in reentry investments across the country.
https://www.bja.gov/
BJA’s “Smart Suite” Programs include • Project Safe Neighborhoods • Smart Policing Initiative • Byrne Criminal Justice Innovation • Prescription Drug Monitoring Program • Second Chance Act Demonstration Field Experiment • Smart Defense (Indigent Defense) • Smart Supervision Program • Smart Prosecution Program • Field Initiated Programs
Fostering Practitioner-Research Partnerships to reexamine every aspect of the criminal justice system to identify what is working in the field to reduce crime and recidivism and make our communities safer. https://www.bja.gov/ Programs/CRPPE/sma rtsuite.html
Eligibility • Eligible applicants are states, units of local government, and federally recognized Indian tribal governments (as determined by the Secretary of the Interior). • BJA welcomes applications that involve two or more entities that will carry out the funded federal award activities; however, one eligible entity must be the applicant (e.g. grant manager and fiscal agent) and the others must be proposed as subrecipients.
Goals, Objectives, and Deliverables • To develop and test innovative strategies and implement evidence-based probation and parole approaches that improve supervision success rates, thereby increasing community safety and reducing violent and other crime by effectively addressing individuals’ risk and needs and reducing recidivism.
Goals, Objectives, and Deliverables • Improve supervision strategies that will reduce recidivism. • Promote and increase collaboration among agencies and officials who work in probation, parole, pretrial, law enforcement, treatment, reentry, and related community corrections fields. • Develop and implement strategies for the identification, supervision, and treatment of “high-risk/high-needs” supervisees, including subsets of this population, which may serve as a model for other agencies throughout the nation. • Develop and implement developmentally appropriate strategies for the identification, supervision, and treatment of young adult supervisees that may serve as a model for other agencies throughout the nation.
Goals, Objectives, and Deliverables • Develop and implement strategies to identify and enroll uninsured supervisees into Medicaid, or other insurance through health exchanges, and to connect them to treatment and healthcare providers as appropriate. • Objectively assess and/or evaluate the impact of innovative and evidence-based supervision and treatment strategies. • Demonstrate the use and efficacy of evidence-based practices and principles to improve the delivery of probation and parole supervision strategies and practices.
Goals, Objectives, and Deliverables • An action plan, comprising a problem analysis, logic model, summary of strategies and intended outcomes, and research base for proposed strategies. The action plan is envisioned as a product of collaboration among the supervision agency, research partner, and technical assistance provider. A copy of the action plan that meets BJA’s expectations for this deliverable can be found at: https://csgjusticecenter.org/wpcontent/uploads/2016/02/SCA_Smart_Supervision_PI_Guide.pdf
• Final analysis and report by the research partner.
Mandatory Project Components • Demonstrate agency commitment to the proposed initiative. • Clearly demonstrate the appropriate use and integration of evidence-based principles such as the assessment of risk and needs. • Document a baseline recidivism rate based on historical data. • Incorporate a research partner to assist with a) data collection and analysis, b) problem assessment, c) strategy development, or d) monitoring and evaluation performance.
Allowable Uses for Award Funds • Increase the capacity of states, localities, and tribal communities to help probation agencies improve supervision strategies. • Test new policies and strategies in community supervision and treatment to increase public safety and generate savings. • Test new policies and strategies in community supervision and treatment for young adult supervisees. • Develop and/or deploy information technology. • Analyze and implement changes to policies and practices that guide community supervision conditions and revocation procedures.
Allowable Uses for Award Funds • Promote the use of evidence-based programs and strategies by service providers. • Plan and strategize for how expanded options for access to healthcare can enhance health and safety outcomes for supervisees. • Expand collaboration and strategic partnerships between community supervision agencies and law enforcement. • Convene an interagency working group to analyze the jurisdiction’s probation population drivers and make recommendations. • Evaluate the results of the new strategies and tools tested through this initiative.
Agenda Grant Program Overview Program Requirements & Expectations Application & Selection Criteria Resources & Important Contacts
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SCA Smart Supervision Grant Program Solicitation is available at: https://www.bja.gov/funding/smartsupervision17 .pdf Applications are due on March 07, 2017.
Review Criteria 1. 2. 3. 4.
Statement of the Problem/Description of the Issue (15%) Project Design and Implementation (35%) Capabilities and Competencies (25%) Plan for Collecting the Data Required for Performance Measures (5%) 5. Impact/Outcomes, Evaluation, and Sustainment (10%) 6. Budget (10%)
Matching Requirement This solicitation does not require a match. However, if an application proposes a voluntary match amount, receives an award, and OJP approves their budget, the match amount becomes mandatory and subject to audit.
Additional Attachments • See pages 19-22 for complete list of “Additional Attachments” required, including: – – – – –
Letters of support Project timeline Position descriptions Disclosure of pending applications Research and evaluation independence and integrity
Agenda Grant Program Overview Program Requirements & Expectations Application & Selection Criteria Important Contacts & Helpful Resources
Contact Information For questions about the process of submitting an application: – contact the Grants.gov Customer Support Hotline at 1-800-518-4726 or via e-mail to support@grants.gov. The Grants.gov Support Hotline hours of operation are 24 hours, 7 days a week, except federal holidays.
For questions about other requirements of this solicitation: – contact the National Criminal Justice Reference Services (NCJRS) Response Center: toll-free at 800-851-3420; via TTY at 301-240-6310 (hearing impaired only); email grants@ncjrs.gov; fax to 301-240-5830; or web chat at https://webcontact.ncjrs.gov/ncjchat/chat.jsp. The NCJRS Response Center hours of operation are 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. eastern time, Monday through Friday, and 10:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. eastern time on the solicitation close date.
Other Helpful Resources Applicants can obtain more information on evidence-based strategies for probation supervision from the following resources:
– A Ten-Step Guide to Transforming Probation Departments to Reduce Recidivism, Council of State Governments Justice Center (https://csgjusticecenter.org/documents/0000/1150/A_TenStep_Guide_to_Transforming_Probation_Departments_to_Reduce_Re cidivism.pdf). – Putting Public Safety First: 13 Strategies for Successful Supervision and Reentry, The Urban Institute (www.urban.org/UploadedPDF/411800_public_safety_first.pdf) – Maximum Impact: Targeting Supervision on Higher-Risk People, Places and Times, The Pew Center on the States (http://www.pewtrusts.org/~/media/legacy/uploadedfiles/pcs_assets /2009/maximumimpactwebpdf.pdf).
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