Reentry Projects provide the opportunity for organizations to build customized projects built on evidence-based and informed interventions or promising practices that will lead to improved employment outcomes for either young adults between the ages of 18 to 24 who have been involved in either the juvenile or adult justice system or adults ages 25 or older who have been incarcerated in the adult criminal justice system and released from prison or jail within 180 days.
The focus of this initiative is to assist communities in planning and implementing comprehensive "reentry" programs to address the full range of challenges involved in helping formerly incarcerated adults and young adults who have been involved in the juvenile or adult justice system make successful transitions back to the community. The intent of this initiative is to protect community safety by ensuring that these individuals:
All participants of programs must reside in high-poverty, high-crime communities. Applicants must demonstrate evidence-based and informed interventions or promising practices that lead to increased employment outcomes for this population in their selected geographic area and in framing their goals and objectives to deal with this issue.
Participants Eligible to Receive Training include:
Eligible applicants are 501(c)(3) non-profit organizations, state governments, local governments, and Indian or Native American entities.
Applications were to be submitted by April 25, 2019. A similar deadline date is anticipated annually.
Up to $82,500,000 was available to fund 41 projects. Individual awards for intermediary organizations may be up to $4,500,000 each, based on population served and project scope. Awards for non-intermediary organizations may be up to $1,500,000 each. Cost sharing/matching is not required.