The County of Rutherford in Murfreesboro, Tennessee will receive $899,981 under a Project Grant award from the Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs Bureau of Justice Assistance. The grant funding supports the Re-entry Career Training (RECT) Program, delivered under the Second Chance Act Reentry Initiative (CFDA 16.812). The RECT Program will provide employment, life skills and transitional services to 100 individuals incarcerated at the Rutherford County Correctional Work Center....
The U.S. Department of Justice's Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) awarded a $825,000 Project Grant under the Second Chance Act Reentry Initiative (CFDA 16.812) to the City of Houston's Department of Health and Human Services (HHD) for the Community Re-Entry Network Program (CRNP). The CRNP will partner with the community to devise strategies for reducing recidivism, enhancing public safety, and facilitating the successful transition of ex-offenders into productive members of the Houston...
The South Central Tennessee Workforce Alliance and county sheriff's departments in Maury, Wayne, Giles, Lewis, Perry, Hickman, and Lawrence Counties, Tennessee were awarded a $749,381 project grant from the Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs Bureau of Justice Assistance under the Second Chance Act Reentry Initiative (CFDA 16.812) federal grant program. The grant will fund reentry services for medium- to high-risk individuals leaving county jails in the 22nd and 32nd Judicial...
Project Return Inc. received a $900,000 Project Grant award from the Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs Bureau of Justice Assistance under the Second Chance Act Reentry Initiative (CFDA 16.812) program. The grant will fund subsidized wages for transitional employees working in Project Return's employment-creating social enterprises, which provide job readiness services and transitional employment opportunities to over 400 formerly incarcerated individuals returning to the...
This Project Grant award from the Bureau of Justice Assistance (CFDA 16.812 - Second Chance Act Reentry Initiative) provides $850,000 to Miami-Dade County to implement the Reconnect Resource Nexus, a technology-based intervention designed to improve access to community-based resources and facilitate information sharing between probation officers and treatment providers. The key objectives are: (1) implementing an advanced logic-powered local resource database, and (2) enhancing information...
The Helen Ross McNabb Center was awarded a $825,000 Project Grant from the Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) under the Second Chance Act Reentry Initiative (CFDA 16.812) to implement an adult and youth crisis stabilization and community reentry program in East Tennessee. The project aims to support cross-system collaboration between criminal/juvenile justice agencies, mental health/substance use providers, and community-based re-entry organizations. Key activities include evidence-based...
The Hamilton County Sheriff's Office (HCSO) was awarded a $900,000 Project Grant from the Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs Bureau of Justice Assistance under the Second Chance Act Reentry Initiative (CFDA 16.812) program. The grant will fund the Education Medication Support Project (EMS) to improve substance use disorder treatment and recovery outcomes for adults in reentry from October 1, 2022 to September 30, 2025 in Cincinnati, OH. Working with project partners Addiction...
The U.S. Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) awarded a $500,000 Second Chance Act Reentry Initiative (CFDA 16.812) Project Grant to Treatment and Accountability for Safer Communities of Northwest Ohio (TASC), a non-profit organization in Toledo, Ohio. The grant will fund TASC's TASC-REI program to enhance intake services, crisis intervention, and peer-support services for clients with substance use disorders (SUDs) and/or co-occurring mental health disorders. The program aims to improve client...
The Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) awarded a $600,000 Project Grant under the Second Chance Act Reentry Initiative (CFDA 16.812) to Strength In Peers Inc., a non-profit organization based in New Market, Virginia. The grant will fund the Page County Jail Reentry Project, which aims to reduce recidivism and improve behavioral health and reentry outcomes among incarcerated individuals in Page County, Virginia. The project will provide reentry and recovery services, including peer support,...
This Project Grant award, provided by the Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) under the Second Chance Act Reentry Initiative (CFDA 16.812), aims to create a Smart Housing Reentry Initiative that increases housing options and provides other support services for formerly incarcerated individuals returning to Clark County, Ohio. The $1,000,000 award will fund the addition of a housing specialist and peer support services, as well as rapid rehousing assistance, to address gaps in the current...