Research and Evaluation on Promising Reentry Initiatives
Solicitation Title: Research and Evaluation on Promising Reentry Initiatives
Funding Amount: NIJ anticipates at least $6 million will be available to fund multiple grant awards of which up to $500,000 will be available for relevant research involving federally recognized tribes (or tribally based organizations).
Sponsor Deadline: Monday, May 13, 2019
Solicitation Link: https://www.nij.gov/funding/Documents/solicitations/NIJ-2019-15563.pdf
Overview
<p>With this solicitation, NIJ seeks to build knowledge on best practices in offender reentry initiatives. Specifically, NIJ requests proposals for rigorous research to examine reentry initiatives that incorporate promising practices, strategies, or programs. For this solicitation, NIJ is interested in supporting evaluations of innovative reentry initiatives that focus on juveniles, young adults (aged 18-24), and adults with a moderate-to-high risk of reoffending. A particular focus on the risk of reoffending with a violent crime is encouraged. These initiatives may be applicable to juvenile residential facilities, institutional and/or community corrections.</p> <p>The primary goal of this solicitation is to support the rigorous examination of innovative reentry initiatives, including those in rural communities. Proposals that seek to evaluate reentry initiatives funded by the Second Chance Act or other reentry initiatives will be considered. Preference in award decisions will be given to applications that propose to use a randomized controlled trial (RCT). This research supports the U.S. Department of Justice priorities to reduce violent crime, and to protect police and other public safety personnel by reducing recidivism and giving individuals tools to be law-abiding, productive members of society.</p>
Solicitation Limitations: <p><span><span>Under this solicitation, any particular applicant entity may submit more than one application, as long as each application proposes a different project in response to the solicitation. Also, an entity may be proposed as a subrecipient (subgrantee) in more than one application.</span></span></p> Other Information:<p><span>Applications proposing research involving partnerships with criminal justice or other agencies, are to include a strong letter of support, signed by an appropriate decision-making authority from each proposed partnering agency. A letter of support must include the partnering agency’s acknowledgement that de-identified data provided through this project will be archived by the awardee in the National Archive of Criminal Justice Data (NACJD) at the conclusion of the award (please see Goals, Objectives, Deliverables, and Expected Scholarly Products section below). If selected for award, applicants will be expected to have a formal agreement in place with partnering agencies by January 1, 2020. That agreement must include provisions to meet the data archiving requirements of the award. In rare circumstances — for example where law prohibits the archiving of agency data — NIJ may agree to a successful applicant creating and archiving an appropriate synthetic dataset. Those circumstances will be rare, decided by NIJ on a case-by-case basis, and will require extensive documentation and justification for exceptions to be made.</span></p>Last Updated:
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