Second Chance Act Pay for Success Initiative

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The Second Chance Act Pay for Success Initiative offers grants to provide services and programs to improve reentry, reduce recidivism, and address the treatment and recovery needs of people with mental health, substance use, or co-occurring disorders who are currently or were formerly involved in the criminal justice system.

Program objectives include:

Category 1 Performance-based and Outcomes-based Contracting for Reentry Services:

• Enhance already established performance-based and outcomes-based contracts to provide individualized reentry services for people leaving incarceration who are identified through a validated risk tool as being at moderate to high risk to reoffend in the community
• Manage the performance-based or outcomes-based reentry service or, including data and report collection, regular performance and outcome reviews between governments and service providers, on- and off-site monitoring, outcomes validation, and incentive payment approvals
• Ensure government staff and service providers have adequate training on performance-based or outcomes-based procurement, reentry services, data collection, and outcomes validation

Category 2 Performance-based and Outcomes-based Contracting for Permanent Supportive Housing:

• Enter into performance-based or outcomes-based contracts to provide evidence-based, high-quality permanent supportive housing (PSH) to formerly incarcerated individuals who have a substance use disorder
• Manage the performance-based or outcomes-based PSH contract, including data and report collection, regular performance and outcome reviews between governments and service providers, on- and off-site monitoring, performance and outcomes validation, and incentive payment approvals
• Ensure government staff and service providers have adequate training on performance-based or outcomes-based procurement, PSH, data collection, and outcomes validation

Priority consideration will be given to applications that:

• Promote racial equity and the removal of barriers to access and opportunity for communities that have been historically underserved, marginalized, and adversely affected by inequality. These communities include Black/African American people, Hispanic/Latino people, Native American and other indigenous peoples of North America (including Alaska Natives, Eskimos, and Aleuts), Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders.
• Demonstrate the proposed project(s) are enhanced because the applicant (or at least one proposed subrecipient that will receive at least 30% of the requested award funding) identifies as a culturally specific organization

Eligible applicants include:

• State governments
• City and township governments
• County and special district governments
• Federally recognized tribal governments
• Public housing authorities/Indian housing authorities

Award ceiling: $1,000,000
Project period: 54 months
Estimated number of awards: 6
Estimated total program funding: $6,000,000

Links to the full announcement, application instructions, and the online application process are available through grants.gov.

Applicants should submit an SF-424 and an SF-LLL in grants.gov by the March 21, 2023 deadline.

Submit the full application, including attachments, in the JustGrants grants management system by the March 28, 2023 deadline.