15PBJA24GK02384PREA

Urban Institute's Justice Policy Center (URBAN), in collaboration with The Moss Group (TMG) as a proposed subrecipient, proposes to identify and select approximately 25 state, local, and tribal confinement agencies across the United States and competitively award up to $50,000 of supporting funding in the form of two-year microgrants to each confinement agency for improving practices to protect vulnerable people during incarceration and reduce the use of overly punitive or restrictive approaches traditionally used to do so.

The microgrants will focus on supporting interventions that address the following vulnerable populations:

1) Survivors of crime, violence, and victimization;

2) People diagnosed with a serious mental illness;

3) Youth incarcerated in adult confinement facilities;

4) People who identify as LGBTQ+; and

5) The aging population.

Once microgrants are awarded, the project team will conduct needs assessments to create specialized training and technical assistance (TTA) plans for each grantee and support them directly, while also providing TTA to non-micrograntees and developing knowledge products for the field at large based on the lessons gleaned from this microgrant program.

The Urban Institute

THIS PROGRAM WILL SUPPORT AN ORGANIZATION TO ADMINISTER A COMPETITIVE MICROGRANT PROGRAM AND PROVIDE TRAINING AND TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE TO STATE, LOCAL, AND TRIBAL CONFINEMENT AGENCIES WORKING TO PROTECT VULNERABLE PEOPLE WHO ARE CONFINED IN THEIR FACILITIES, AND TO REDUCE THE USE OF PUNITIVE OR OVERLY RESTRICTIVE OPERATIONAL PRACTICES TO KEEP THESE PEOPLE SAFE. VULNERABLE PEOPLE INCLUDE, BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO, THOSE WITH ONE OR MORE PHYSICAL DISABILITY, SEVERE/PERSISTENT MENTAL ILLNESS, OR WHO ARE LGBTQ+, BLIND, DEAF, OR NON-ENGLISH SPEAKING.

16.735 - PREA Program: Strategic Support for PREA Implementation

Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) [DOJ - OJP]

Washington, District Of Columbia 20024 United States

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BJA FY 2024 Enhancing Correctional Practices to Protect Vulnerable People: Technical Assistance and Microgrant Program (O-BJA-2024-172047)

Termination This cooperative agreement was reported as terminated by the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) in July 2025. See All