Justice Resource Institute, Inc.

Justice Resource Institute, Inc., a Massachusetts-based non-profit organization, operates as a prime recipient and sub-recipient on federal grants addressing housing security, trauma-informed mental health care, and victim services for vulnerable populations, with an active footprint across the Department of Housing and Urban Development, the Department of Justice, and the Department of Health and Human Services.

Justice Resource Institute specializes in trauma-informed and supportive services for low-income populations and survivors of violence, delivering evidence-based interventions across three primary service domains. Housing and supportive services work dominates its federal footprint — JRI serves as a prime recipient on HUD Housing Opportunities for Persons with AIDS (HOPWA) grants, including a $1.449 million three-year project grant awarded June 29, 2026, to provide supportive housing and related services for low-income persons living with HIV/AIDS and their families at its Needham Heights, Massachusetts location. An earlier HOPWA formula grant (April 7, 2025, through July 31, 2028) funds housing information services, short-term rental assistance, mortgage and utility assistance, and permanent housing placement serving 200 households across Boston, Greater Boston, and Holyoke. JRI's mental health and trauma work centers on the Massachusetts Justice and Equity for Child Trauma (MAJECT) project, a cooperative agreement with the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (October 1, 2023, through September 30, 2026) providing trauma-focused cognitive behavioral therapy, parent-child interaction therapy, and attachment-regulation-competency interventions to underserved children ages 0–17 exposed to violence, with emphasis on youth of color, child-welfare-involved youth, LGBTQ+ youth, and juvenile-justice-involved youth. Victim services work includes continued funding through VOCA (Victims of Crime Act) grants administered by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, supporting victim advocacy and anti-trafficking services.

JRI's customer concentration reflects its focus on housing, social services, and victim assistance. The top five federal funding entities account for 66% of awards by count, led by HUD's Assistant Secretary for Community Planning and Development (28 awards), followed by the Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs Victims of Crime Office (11 awards) and the DOJ OJP broadly (8 awards). The Department of Health and Human Services Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration accounts for 5 awards. By potential dollar value, the portfolio is distributed across multiple small awards; the source indicates 92% coverage across all award types, with most individual awards under $2 million. The combined potential value across all 87 awards (42 prime, 45 sub) reaches $178 thousand, though obligated dollars total $59.9 million, indicating substantial draw-downs against project grants with multi-year performance periods.

Recent activity shows growth in grant volume — 15 awards in 2025 compared to six in 2024 — though only one award faces ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, limiting near-term recompete pressure. In its sub-recipient capacity, JRI performs services under primes including the City of Boston, the City of Cambridge, the City of Providence, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, the Massachusetts Department of Public Health, and Georgia State University Research Foundation. Notable sub-work includes leadership and trauma expertise contributions to the National Center of Child Trafficking (a Georgia State University Research Foundation cooperative agreement), where JRI supports development of mental health treatment and trauma-informed substance-abuse-treatment consensus guidelines and facilitates clinical discussion groups and training webinars. JRI's grant-work service area concentrates in Massachusetts and Southern New England, with some national exposure through the NCCT project.