NACo County Jail Diversion Forum Allegheny County, PA May 5 & 6, 2010 BJA Resources Lesley Buchan Outreach Coordinator
Bureau of Justice Assistance Overview • Department of Justice • Office of Justice Programs • Bureau of Justice Assistance* • Bureau of Justice Statistics • National Institute of Justice • Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention • Office for Victims of Crime • Community Capacity Development Office • Office of Sex Offender Sentencing, Monitoring, Apprehending, Registering, and Tracking (SMART)
BJA’s Mission and Goals • BJA supports law enforcement, courts, corrections, treatment, victim services, technology, and prevention initiatives that strengthen the nation’s criminal justice system. BJA provides leadership, services, and funding to America’s communities. • BJA recognizes the critical role counties play to ensure effective justice systems at the local level and recognizes the significant achievements they have made to divert individuals with mental health needs from the justice system.
BJA Programs • FY 2009 - More than $4 billion distributed through grants for programs (unusually high due to Recovery Act funding): • Law Enforcement • Justice Information Sharing • Adjudication • Corrections • Justice and Mental Health • Substance Abuse • Crime Prevention • Tribal Justice
BJA improves the Administration of Justice by: • Supporting and promoting the most promising crime enforcement, reduction, and prevention practices; • Providing updates to the field through its website, publications and annual report; and • Supporting and providing training and technical assistance opportunities in criminal justice program areas. • BJA website - www.ojp.usdoj.gov/BJA/
BJA Grants • Formula Grants • Earmarks or Congressionally Selected Awards • Discretionary or Competitive Grants • Payment Programs
BJA 2010 solicitations • About 45 released this year • Highlight a few for today, although there are many more. For a summary of all solicitations: http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/BJA/funding/FY10Solicitati onSummary.pdf
Second Chance Act – Funded at $100 million for FY10 • $37 million for adult and juvenile reentry demonstrations • Closed on March 4, 2010. • $15 million for mentoring grants w/transitional services • Closed on March 18, 2010. • $13 million for targeting offenders with co-occurring substance abuse and mental health disorders • Solicitation closes on June 3, 2010 • $10 million for State, Local, and Tribal Reentry Courts • Solicitation closes on June 3, 2010
SCA Solicitations cont. • $7.5 million for family-based prisoner substance abuse treatment • Solicitation closes on June 3, 2010 • $2.5 million for grants to evaluate and improve education in prisons, jails, and juvenile facilities • Solicitation closes on June 10, 2010 • $5 million for technology careers training demonstration grants for incarcerated adults and juveniles • Solicitation closes on June 10, 2010
Justice Reinvestment Program • The justice reinvestment “formula” consists of a five-step process: • Collect and analyze data to identify key criminal justice population drivers • develop and implement alternative strategies • document costs and potential savings • reinvest savings • assess impact of reinvestment strategies.
Justice Reinvestment assists Jurisdictions • Prioritize jail space for those who truly need to be there • Decide which individuals would be better off in the community, where services and treatment may be more readily available • Expedite the case processing of those awaiting trial or disposition • Revise revocation policies • Enhance ability to share data across agencies, among other things
Justice Reinvestment at local level • The Urban Institute with funding from BJA, is currently working with three counties on justice reinvestment activities– • Alachua County, Florida • Travis County, Texas • Alleghany County, Pennsylvania
Justice Reinvestment funding FY2010 • Criminal Justice Improvement and Recidivism Reduction through State, Local, and Tribal Justice Reinvestment - Solicitation closes on June 10, 2010. • http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/BJA/grant/10JusticeReinvestmentSol.pdf • Three categories: • One award ($1 million) to provide overall coordination and oversight of the justice reinvestment initiative • Two awards ($2,250,000 each) to implement the State-level Justice Reinvestment Program • Two awards ($2,250,000 each) to implement the Local and Tribal Justice Reinvestment Program.
Justice and Mental Health Collaboration Program • In FY2009, BJA made 43 site-based awards for a total of $7,874,824 in funding. • The FY2010 Program solicitation closed on April 8, 2010 • $12 million in funding appropriation for this program • BJA received a total of 280 applications and 275 will move forward for Peer Review • BJA anticipates making approximately 40-50 funding awards
National Initiatives: Justice System Response to Special Populations • Focused on national scope initiatives to develop tools, curriculum, training and provide technical assistance to state and local governments. • Category 1: Technical Assistance Provider: Linking Information Systems to Improve Outcomes for Offenders with Mental Illnesses • Category 2: Training Services Provider: Mental Health Court Curriculum Development. • Category 3: Training Services Provider: Law Enforcement Response to Individuals with Mental Illness Core Elements Training and Technical Assistance Program. • Category 4: Assessment: Pathways of Women with Mental Illness to Jails.
Encouraging Innovation: Field Initiated Programs • Opportunity to promote innovation and/or evidence-based strategy to inform criminal justice decision making by practitioners and state and local policymakers and • Seeking national scope projects, but local governments are eligible if proposing an innovative strategy that could be replicated nationally. • Applications may be submitted under one of three categories • (1) state or local programs that strategically address emerging or chronic criminal justice issues • (2) innovative strategies for addressing these issues • (3) strategies to sustain innovative or evidence-based programs.
FY2009 Field-Initiated Program Example • Funded the Vera Institute of Justice for development of a cost-benefit analysis (CBA) tool • Cost-benefit analysis can assist policymakers by providing information about the return on investment for various criminal justice decision making. • What are the most cost-effective reentry programs? • Develop a national knowledge bank for cost-benefit analysis in criminal justice to help practitioners and policymakers better understand the budgetary impact of criminal justice policy choices.
Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant (JAG) Program • BJA’s main formula grant program • Primary source of federal criminal justice funding for state and local jurisdictions • Supports all components of the criminal justice system • Addresses crime through: • the provision of services to individuals and/or communities, or by • Improving the efficacy and efficiency of criminal justice systems.
JAG Program Overview • Established in 2005 to streamline justice funding and grant administration. • Supports a broad range of activities and allows states and local jurisdictions to meet local needs. • During FY 2009, BJA awarded 1476 annual JAG grants plus 3266 grants through the Recovery Act for a total of $2,466,733,273. • Based on a formula that utilizes population and UCR crime data to determine each state’s allocation – then 60% goes to the state and 40% to local jurisdictions based on their share of the state’s violent crime data.
Required JAG Purpose Areas: • Law Enforcement Programs • Prosecution and Court Programs • Prevention and Education Programs • Corrections and Community Corrections Programs • Drug Treatment and Enforcement Programs • Planning, Evaluation, and Technology Improvement Programs • Crime Victim and Witness Programs (other than Compensation)
JAG and Substance Abuse/Mental Health • With funding from BJA, the National Criminal Justice Association (NCJA) surveyed State Administering Agencies in early 2010 seeking data on how states and local communities deployed their Byrne JAG funds. • The data provide a snapshot of how Byrne JAG funds are deployed in the field. • Mental Health Services – approximately $16 million • Reentry – approximately $44 million • Courts (specialty/problem-solving) – approximately $60 million
Byrne JAG Spending by Purpose Areas in 2009 *Source NCJA data- from grants awarded in 2009, including Recovery Act funds and any other Byrne JAG funds spent in 2009. (This could include funds from FY07, FY08, or FY09).
Funding opportunities at OJP/BJA • Visit www.ojp.usdoj.gov/funding/solicitations.htm • View current OJP funding opportunities • Take a look at the “BJA Guide to Grants” • FY 10 Edition http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/BJA/resource/GrantWriting Manual.pdf
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