CFAs: Visiting Fellows Program (United States)

With this solicitation, BJA seeks to invest in current and future leaders in the criminal justice field to advance priority national policy issues and offer cross-developmental opportunities for DOJ staff and criminal justice practitioners and researchers. Awards made under the BJA Visiting Fellows Program will fund fellowships for a period of 24 months for Category 1 and for 36 months under Category 2, including a “dedicated immersion” period when the Fellow will be expected to commit a significant portion of their time to the fellowship. Fellows will also have an opportunity to work closely with BJA staff members, both virtually and onsite at BJA’s office in Washington, D.C.

The purpose of each fellowship is to make important policy and programmatic contributions in a criminal justice focus area. Fellows will collaborate with BJA and DOJ staff members to provide critical outreach, data, research, and subject matter expertise to inform the development of new BJA strategies, policies, and programs to benefit the field.

Goals and Objectives

• Goals
  • To leverage the expertise and experience of the criminal justice field to address key gaps in the field for evidence-based training, technical assistance, and knowledge in seven focus areas:
    • Reducing Stigma for Persons with Substance Use and Mental Health Disorders and Criminal Justice Involvement
    • Enhancing Support of and Reducing Stigma for Persons with Criminal Justice Involvement Who Are in Recovery
    • Improving Corrections and Reintegration Under the Second Chance Act
    • Advancing Strategies to Prevent and Respond to Hate Crimes
    • Building Capacity of Community Violence Intervention (CVI) Leaders to Enhance
    • Community Safety
    • Enhancing Tribal Capacity to Build Strong Programs and Access Resources for Programs
    • Advancing and Improving the Criminal Justice Systems Using Artificial Intelligence
• Objectives
  • Serve as a subject matter expert on the selected Fellowship focus area.
  • Identify research, practices, models, and trends relevant to the selected Fellowship focus area.
  • Support the development of criminal justice practitioners, researchers, and BJA/OJP staff members to advance BJA’s mission.
  • Assist and translate knowledge about critical criminal justice issues and strategies and promote innovation.

Priority Areas

• In order to further OJP’s mission, OJP will provide priority consideration when making award decisions to the following:
  • Applications that propose project(s) that are designed to meaningfully advance equity and remove barriers to accessing services and opportunities for communities that have been historically underserved, marginalized, adversely affected by inequality, and disproportionately impacted by crime, violence, and victimization.
  • Applicants that demonstrate that their capabilities and competencies for implementing their proposed project(s) are enhanced because they (or at least one proposed subrecipient that will receive at least 40 percent of the requested award funding, as demonstrated in the Budget web-based form) are a population-specific organization that serves communities that have been historically underserved, marginalized, adversely affected by inequality, and disproportionately impacted by crime, violence, and victimization.

Categories

• Category 1: Agency Sponsored Individual Fellowship
• Category 2: Partner Agency Fellowship Program

Funding Information

• Anticipated Number of Awards: 7
  • Category 1: 4
  • Category 2: 3
• Anticipated Maximum Dollar Amount per Award:
  • Category 1 anticipated maximum amount: $350,000
  • Category 2 anticipated maximum amount: $500,000
• Period of Performance Duration (Months):
  • Category 1: Up to 24 months
  • Category 2: Up to 36 months
• Anticipated Total Amount to Be Awarded Under This Solicitation: $2,900,000

Eligibility Criteria

• Category 1
  • City or township governments
  • County governments
  • For-profit organizations other than small businesses
  • Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized)
  • Native American tribal organizations (other than Federally recognized tribal
  • governments)
  • Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
  • Nonprofits that do not have a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
  • Private institutions of higher education
  • Public- and State-controlled institutions of higher education
  • Public housing authorities/Indian housing authorities
  • State governments
  • Small businesses
• Category 2
  • For-profit organizations other than small businesses
  • Native American tribal organizations (other than Federally recognized tribal governments)
  • Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
  • Nonprofits that do not have a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
  • Private institutions of higher education
  • Public- and State-controlled institutions of higher education.

For more information, visit Grants.gov.