BJA FY 19 Innovations in Supervision Initiative: Building Capacity to Create Safer Communities | BJA 2019 15226

Opportunity Information: Apply for BJA 2019 15226

The BJA FY 19 Innovations in Supervision Initiative: Building Capacity to Create Safer Communities is a discretionary funding opportunity from the U.S. Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA). It was designed to strengthen community corrections supervision by giving state and local agencies practical support, information, and targeted training and technical assistance. The central idea is to help supervision agencies improve how they manage and support people under community supervision, while also tightening coordination with other parts of the justice system. By improving supervision capacity and cross-agency partnerships, the program aims to prevent recidivism and reduce crime at the local level, particularly crimes committed by individuals supervised in the community.

This opportunity was offered as a cooperative agreement rather than a standard grant, which typically means BJA expected to have a more active role during the project period, such as collaborating on priorities, monitoring progress closely, and supporting the use of evidence-informed strategies. The program’s overall focus is on strengthening the day-to-day practice of community corrections by helping agencies adopt better supervision approaches, build internal capacity, and improve collaboration with justice partners. In practice, that can include efforts like enhancing supervision strategies, improving risk and needs approaches, strengthening referral pathways to services, and creating more consistent coordination between community corrections, courts, law enforcement, prosecutors, defense, jails, prisons, behavioral health providers, and other local partners.

The funding opportunity (number BJA-2019-15226) was posted on April 23, 2019, with an original application deadline of June 25, 2019. BJA anticipated making around five awards, with an award ceiling of up to $1,000,000 per award. The CFDA listing for this program was 16.812. While the listing includes broad activity category labels, the substance of the program is clearly centered on community corrections operations, supervision innovation, and the kinds of capacity-building supports that can help agencies reduce reoffending and improve community safety outcomes.

Eligibility was broad across different levels and types of government. Eligible applicants included state governments, county governments, city or township governments, special district governments, and federally recognized Native American tribal governments. This eligibility structure reflects the reality that community supervision systems are administered in different ways across the country, sometimes at the state level and sometimes locally, and it allows a range of jurisdictions to pursue improvements that fit their governance structure and local needs.

In plain terms, the opportunity was meant for agencies responsible for supervising people in the community, such as probation, parole, or other community corrections entities, that wanted to strengthen their ability to manage caseloads, respond to violations in more effective ways, and coordinate better with partner agencies. The intended result was more effective supervision practice, fewer people cycling back into the system, and measurable reductions in crime and reoffending among supervised populations.

• The Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Assistance in the community development, humanities (see cultural affairs in cfda), information and statistics sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "BJA FY 19 Innovations in Supervision Initiative: Building Capacity to Create Safer Communities" and is now available to receive applicants.
• Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 16.812.
• This funding opportunity was created on Apr 23, 2019.
• Applicants must submit their applications by Jun 25, 2019. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
• Each selected applicant is eligible to receive up to $1,000,000.00 in funding.
• The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 5 candidate(s).
• Eligible applicants include: State governments, County governments, City or township governments, Special district governments, Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized).

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