With this solicitation, the Bureau of Justice Assistance seeks to provide state, local, and tribal community supervision agencies with resources and training and technical assistance to assess and improve responses to client behavior in accordance with the principles of swiftness, certainty, and/or fairness. Guided by one or more of those principles, supervision agencies will engage in collaborative problem solving with stakeholders using data and research-informed strategies to improve supervision outcomes and promote the fair administration of justice.
Under this solicitation, “community supervision agencies” include adult probation, parole, or pretrial supervision or their equivalents such as prosecutor-led post-adjudication diversion.
Eligible Applicants:
- State governments
- Special district governments
- City or township governments
- County governments
- Native American tribal governments (federally recognized)
- Other: For the purposes of this solicitation, “other” refers to an organizing body or association of supervision agencies that may submit a single application for a project engaging more than one supervision office, district, or agency (“entity”). The applicant must have capacity to administer the award and include a Memorandum of Understanding or Letter of Intent from each entity’s chief executive.
On March 28, 2024, BJA hosted a webinar to provide details about this opportunity and offer a chance for participants to ask questions. Watch the webinar recording.
See the solicitation for additional opportunity and eligibility details, as well as directions on how to apply.