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THIS IS NOT A REQUEST FOR APPLICATIONS. This announcement is to provide notice of the continuation of funding for cooperative agreement award 20PR08GLF9.

THIS IS NOT A REQUEST FOR APPLICATIONS. This announcement is to provide notice of the continuation of funding for cooperative agreement award 22CS05GLL5

Over a period of 10 years, the Women’s Risk and Need Assessment (WRNA) was developed based on Canadian research that stressed the importance of assessing and addressing dynamic risk factors and gender-responsive research and theory, including research suggesting that women’s pathways to criminal legal involvement is different from men’s [ChesneyLind, 1997; Daly, 1992]. The research also summarizes the gender-responsive tools that are available for managing and supervising women in various correctional settings [Bloom, Owen, & Covington, 2003; Buell, Modley, & Van Voorhis, 2011; Covington, 1998, 2000]. The premise for the development of the WRNA was that tools currently in use generally over-classified (and on some occasions under-classified) women, and therefore inappropriately assigned them to institutional placement or housing and did not match services and programs to their actual risk and need. Further, services and programs were often not available, as there had been no accurate determination for their need, an outcome based on tools that often overlooked issues more salient to women. Therefore, the mandated completion of assessment and classification tools often became a “paperwork” exercise, and ultimately the assessments were filed away and not used to guide decision-making. Today, the WRNA, a tool that appropriately accounts for women’s risk and need, has been applied nationally and internationally for assessment and case planning with women who are at various points of involvement with the correctional system, from pretrial to community supervision.

THIS IS NOT A REQUEST FOR APPLICATIONS. This announcement is to provide notice of NIC to make an award without full competition.

The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) is a federal law that gives civil rights protections to individuals with disabilities in many areas of life. The ADA guarantees that people with disabilities have the same opportunities as everyone else to enjoy employment opportunities, participate in state and local government programs, and purchase goods and services. For example, the ADA protects people with disabilities from discrimination by social services agencies; child welfare agencies; courts; prisons and jails; medical facilities, including hospitals, doctors’ offices, and skilled nursing facilities; homeless shelters; and schools, colleges, and universities. (U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division, April 2022). The ADA protects people with disabilities from discrimination. Disability rights are civil rights. From voting to parking, the ADA is a law that protects people with disabilities in many areas of public life. This includes the criminal justice system—from encounters with law enforcement to pretrial status, local jail, community supervision, and finally to prison and reentry. Entities in each of these areas are required to adhere to the ADA. How a correctional setting applies the ADA law and accommodates those with mental and/or physical disabilities could significantly affect the outcome for people with disabilities in the justice system.

THIS IS NOT A REQUEST FOR APPLICATIONS. This announcement is to provide notice of NIC to make an award without full competition.

THIS IS NOT A REQUEST FOR APPLICATIONS. This announcement is to provide notice of the continuation of funding for cooperative agreement award 21CS24GLI2.

The mission of the National Institute of Corrections (NIC) is to advance public safety by shaping and enhancing correctional policies and practices through leadership, learning, and innovation (https://www.nicic.gov/). One way that NIC pursued its mission was through the publication of a series of documents on the implementation of evidence-based practices (EBPs) in the early 2000s. These documents addressed multiple aspects of EBPs and remain relevant and influential today; however, some of the content is outdated and does not embrace the implementation science approaches and other significant research that has emerged since the creation of these documents. In 2020, NIC funded a project to revise, update, and expand four of its EBP documents: · Implementing Evidence-Based Practice in Community Corrections: The Principles of Effective[KG1] Intervention (2004) · Implementing Evidence-Based Practice in Community Corrections: Quality Assurance Manual (2005) · Implementing Evidence‐Based Policy and Practice in Community Corrections: Second Edition (2008) · Putting the Pieces Together: Practical Strategies for Implementing Evidence-Based Practices (2011) Specific deliverables included adding new information about research on EBPs, incorporating insights from implementation science and the input of practitioners and academics involved with the implementation of EBPs in community supervision agencies. For example, suggestions from the practitioners and academics included making the materials responsive to the interests, needs, and concerns of staff with different responsibilities in their organizations and creating tools such as briefs, checklists, videos, and infographics, and capturing practitioners’ experiences in testimonials and “lessons learned.” The initial work focused on developing a content restructuring plan to guide future content development, resource selection, organization, and delivery with the goal of making the EBP content more accessible, approachable, and actionable. Rather than producing printed documents, the content will be digital and housed on a dedicated microsite on NIC’s website. The microsite will contain content organized according to users’ positions within community supervision organizations and focus on four target audiences: community supervision staff, supervisors, executives, and implementation support staff. The content will focus on the tasks, responsibilities, skills, and competencies that each audience needs to contribute to the successful implementation of EBPs. As of the writing of this solicitation, content development and restructuring for one of the four target audiences (community supervision staff) is complete and will be used to guide the development of the remaining microsite content.

THIS IS NOT A REQUEST FOR APPLICATIONS. This announcement is to provide notice of the continuation of funding for cooperative agreement award 22CS28GLM3.

THIS IS NOT A REQUEST FOR APPLICATIONS. This announcement is to provide notice of the continuation of funding for cooperative agreement award 22CS27GLM1.