sga-dfa-10-04-amendment1.pdf

DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Employment & Training Administration

Solicitation for Grant Applications (SGA)

[SGA-DFA-PY-10-04]

Amendment One

Civic Justice Corps Serving Juvenile Offenders

AGENCY: Employment and Training Administration (ETA), Labor

ACTION: Notice: Amendment to SGA/DFA PY 10-04

SUMMARY: The Employment and Training Administration published a notice in the Federal Register on February 7, 2011, announcing the availability of funds and Solicitation for Grant Applications (SGA) for Civic Justice Corps Serving Juvenile Offenders to be awarded through a competitive process. This amendment to the SGA clarifies in Section I.B the need to demonstrate the project components; adds language to Section I.C.; and clarifies the participants eligible to receive services under this grant in Section III.D.1. The document is hereby amended.

Section I.B, page 3, of the solicitation, the following text should be replaced:

Old Text – I.B.

Each local project funded under these grants must include each of the components described below.

New Text – I.B.

To address the evaluation criteria in Section V.A, each applicant under this SGA must include each of the components described below which demonstrate the Civic Justice Corps model or other proven models that provide substantially similar services.

Section I.C, pages 5-6, bullet #1 of the solicitation, the following text should be replaced:

Old Text – I.C. Partnerships with the Juvenile Justice System and Social Service Agencies

In addition to the links to employers, the local workforce investment system’s One-Stop Career Center(s), community colleges, and four-year colleges described in the Career Development and Post-Program Support and Follow-Up components, each Civic Justice Corps project funded under this SGA will be expected to develop partnerships with the following entities:

o Juvenile correctional facility or facilities to receive referrals of eligible youth about to be released who plan to return to the community being served, to allow

New Text – I.C. Partnerships with the Juvenile Justice System and Social Service Agencies

In addition to the links to employers, the local workforce investment system’s One-Stop Career Center(s), community colleges, and four-year colleges described in the Career Development and Post-Program Support and Follow-Up components, each Civic Justice Corps project funded under this SGA will be expected to develop partnerships with the following entities:

o Juvenile correctional facility or facilities to receive referrals of eligible youth about to be released who plan to return to the community being served, to allow pre-release services and orientation at the correctional facility, and to coordinate post-release transitional services for program participants;

Section III.D.1, page 8, of the solicitation, the following text should be replaced:

Old Text – III.D. 1.

D. Eligible Participants

1. Participants Eligible to Receive Services Youth ages 18 to 24 who have been involved with the juvenile justice system within the past 12 months may be served by these grants. Involvement in the juvenile justice system includes youth who within the past 12 months were:

under the supervision of the juvenile justice system either in out-of-home placements or on probation or parole;

placed in an alternative sentence by the juvenile justice system; or placed in a diversion program as an alternative to juvenile prosecution by the juvenile justice system.

New Text – III.D.1.

D. Eligible Participants

1. Participants Eligible to Receive Services Youth ages 18 to 24 who have been involved with the juvenile justice system within the past 12 months may be served by these grants. Involvement in the juvenile justice system includes youth who within the past 12 months were:

under the supervision of the juvenile justice system either in out-of-home placements or on probation or parole;

under an alternative sentence by the juvenile justice system; or under a diversion program as an alternative to juvenile prosecution by the juvenile justice system.

Eligibility is determined by the end date of the youth’s involvement in the juvenile justice system.

Applicants will need to determine from the laws in their state when a youth ends involvement with the juvenile justice system.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Denise Roach, Grants Management Specialist, Division of Federal Assistance at (202) 693-3820 or roach.denise@dol.gov.

Signed at Washington, D.C., this 25th day of February, 2011 Eric Luetkenhaus

Grant Officer, Employment & Training Administration