BJA FY 18 Justice Reinvestment Initiative: National Training and Technical Assistance
BJA-2018-13603   https://www.bja.gov/funding/JRITTA18.pdf
Grants.gov  https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=310281

Through this solicitation, BJA seeks national training and technical assistance providers and subject experts to help state, local, and tribal jurisdictions pursue a state-level Justice Reinvestment Initiative (JRI) approach, or apply key principles of the JRI approach—datadriven problem analysis and evidence-based solutions—to identify and respond to local crime and other public safety challenges.

BJA has supported justice reinvestment to improve the return on states’ public safety investments through a targeted, data-driven policymaking process. JRI is an intensive, datadriven approach that can help state, local, and tribal justice stakeholders analyze, understand, and address key challenges in their justice systems, including violent crime, opioid addiction and mental illness, high correctional costs, and high recidivism rates. The initiative supports a multi-staged process by which a jurisdiction increases the cost-effectiveness of its criminal justice system and reinvests savings into high-performing strategies to increase public safety.

Program-specific Information BJA is seeking applications under three categories of assistance to support JRI: (1) oversight, coordination, and assessment; (2) jurisdiction-level technical assistance; and (3) training and technical assistance for justice reinvestment site-based projects. The third category represents a new area of assistance designed to apply the JRI approach to efforts to enhance public safety and to help state, territory, local and tribal jurisdictions identify and address a wide range of crime and other challenges across the system, including violent crime, opioid addiction and mental illness, and high recidivism rates.