The Serious and Violent Offender Reentry Discretionary Grant Program (Reentry) was developed through a federal partnership by the Departments of Justice, Labor, Health and Human Service, Education, Housing and Urban Development, Commerce, Veterans Affairs and Agriculture. The federal partners' goal is to help state and local agencies navigate the complex field of existing state formula and block grants and to assist them in accessing, redeploying and leveraging those resources to support the components of a comprehensive reentry program. In addition to the new funding, the federal partners are identifying funds from their respective agencies that are already available to state and local agencies to provide the necessary services to implement a reentry program. The Reentry Program is designed to provide funding to state and local units of government to develop and implement institutional and community corrections-based offender reentry programs through collaborative partnerships with government, social service, faith-based, and community organizations, in order to reduce recidivism, increase public safety, and successfully reintegrate serious and violent offenders back into the community. Reentry programs are required to partner with a state adult or juvenile correctional agency.
The Kansas Juvenile Justice Authority has designed this program to fill in support gaps in services and treatment when they move beyond the system of community supervision. This grant proposal is designed to address reintegration failures by providing resources during the long-term support phase in the South Central Kansas areas of Sedgwick, Cowley, and Butler/Elk/Greenwood Counties (13th, 18th, and 19th Judicial District); and in the Northeast Kansas area of Shawnee, Johnson, and Wyandotte Counties (3rd, 10th, and 29th Judicial Districts).
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