Healing Justice Project

Healing Justice Project, doing business as Healing Justice, is a Durham, North Carolina-based non-profit organization that serves as a federal grant recipient, developing post-conviction victim support services and resources under cooperative agreements with the Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs. Healing Justice operates exclusively as a prime recipient (75% of recent awards) and as a sub-recipient on victim-support grants, with all federal funding flowing from a single customer agency — the DOJ Office of Justice Programs, Victims of Crime program.

Healing Justice's federal footprint centers on two consecutive cooperative agreements addressing the gap in post-conviction victim services. The first, awarded October 1, 2022, with ultimate completion September 30, 2025, carries $750,000 in federal funding under the Crime Victim Assistance/Discretionary Grants program (CFDA 16.582) and supports development of recommendations, training models, and tools to expand post-conviction victim services for individuals impacted by conviction and sentence review processes. Healing Justice conducts environmental scans and needs assessments in select jurisdictions and provides nationwide guidance; the National Crime Victim Law Institute develops legal training, the National Organization for Victim Assistance creates trauma-informed advocacy training, and the Urban Institute assists with evaluation approaches. The second award, dated October 1, 2023, with completion September 30, 2026, funds creation of a safe, centralized, mobile-friendly Post-Conviction Online Resource Center (PCRC) with assistance from the National Center for Victims of Crime and other national partners. Healing Justice also operates as a sub-recipient on a peer-to-peer support program for survivors of crime funded through the National Center for Victims of Crime in December 2024.

Combined federal obligation across all awards totals $2 million over a four-year span. One award reaches ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, representing a modest recompete opportunity. Healing Justice's customer concentration is complete — all funding derives from DOJ Office of Justice Programs — reflecting a mission-aligned focus on federal victim-support grant work rather than competitive federal contracting.