AmeriCorps is a National Service program that provides an opportunity for Americans of all ages and backgrounds to give their time and talent to address critical community needs like increasing academic achievement, mentoring youth, fighting poverty, sustaining national parks, preparing for disasters, and more. Subrecipients (local non-profit organizations receiving funding) engage AmeriCorps members in service […]
These programs provide court-based services for individuals engaged with the criminal justice system in order to ensure access to a fair and equitable criminal justice system as well as access to the civil legal system by providing representation, supportive services, advocacy, and access to justice and legal resources. Examples of services include evidence-based prosecution, legal […]
The Domestic Violence program aims to reduce the trauma or effects of trauma caused by domestic violence. It does this by providing support services such as therapeutic services, court advocacy, household necessities, transportation support, as well as additional possible supports. It provides a safety plan that may include temporary, safe shelter.
Evidence Based Programming (EBP) provides educational, therapeutic, and vocational training to inmates in local jails to support their successful transition back into their communities upon release. The program emphasizes the use of training, backed by research and found to be effective, to help reduce the chances of reincarceration.
The purpose of this program is to encourage process improvements in the field of criminal investigations, to enhance the effectiveness of enforcement activities, and to create new and innovative approaches to criminal investigations. Projects funded under the program include, but are not limited to, creating new multi-jurisdictional task forces for investigation, advances in crime analysis, […]
This program helps incarcerated individuals prepare for successful reintegration into the community and provides community corrections program supports such as providing a broader range of options outside of incarceration or offering direct services to meet the basic needs of the justice-involved individual. This minimizes the risk of these individuals re-entering the justice system as well […]
Victims Services provides funding to support foundational services for victims of crime, including safe housing, crisis hotlines, forensic exams, victim advocacy, therapeutic services, legal assistance, and more. Program funding also providing opportunities for innovative, systems-level projects that focus on coordination between multiple agencies and levels of government, like Family Justice Centers, Sexual Assault Response Teams, […]
The Violent Crime Intervention program provides grant funds for local law enforcement agencies to implement evidence-based programs, technology, and strategies, such as community policing, policing through environmental design, crime analysis, and place-based investigations, that will reduce violent crime in our communities.
