Comprehensive Approaches to Sex Offender Management
FY 2005 CASOM grant awards
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Overview:
The Comprehensive Approaches to Sex Offender Management (CASOM) Discretionary Grant Program provides funding to help jurisdictions effectively manage sex offenders in the community by implementing new or enhancing existing programs. Programs need to increase public safety and reduce victimization. Although CASOM focuses on the continuum of activities and services for sex offenders, grant funds must be targeted for community reintegration and community management of these offenders, not for institutional services.
In implementing an approach to managing sex offenders, grantees will convene a multidisciplinary, collaborative team that should include members from community corrections, institutional corrections, the release decisionmaking authority (i.e., parole board where applicable), law enforcement, the judiciary, sex offender-specific treatment providers, nongovernmental nonprofit victim advocacy, prosecution community, criminal defense bar, noncriminal justice service providers representing community and faith-based organizations, and schools and social service agencies (for juveniles). Jurisdictions may also include medical professionals, polygraph examiners, and others who influence, enhance, or are affected by the jurisdiction's sex offender management practices.
Under the CASOM Program, the Center for Sex Offender Management (CSOM) supports grantees by helping them develop sound sex offender management strategies. CSOM also provides nongrant jurisdictions with training and technical assistance opportunities and acts as an information exchange medium to provide useful, current, and accessible information to the field.
Legislation: The CASOM Program was established by the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994 (Public Law 103-322).
Funding: FY 2005 funding is approximately $4.3 million.
Eligibility: Local, state, and tribal communities who are interested in addressing the management of juvenile, adult, or a mixed population of sex offenders are eligible to apply for this grant program. Applicants who are in varying stages of developing sex offender management strategies are eligible to apply. Applicants must coordinate their proposal with others in their jurisdiction to ensure a collaborative response.
How/When To Apply: The FY 2005 solicitation was released on February 14, 2005, and applications were due March 24.
Related Information:
Comprehensive Approaches to Sex Offender Management (FY 2005 Competitive Grant Announcement)
FY 2004 grantees
Sex Offender Management Discretionary Grant Program (FY 2004 Competitive Grant Announcement)
Sex Offender Management Discretionary Grant Program (FY 2003 Competitive Grant Announcement)
FY 2003 Grantees (PDF)
Related Link:
Center for Sex Offender Management
Contact Information:
Julius Dupree, Policy Advisor
Bureau of Justice Assistance
810 Seventh Street NW.
Washington, DC 20531
(202) 514-1928
Fax: (202) 307-0636
E-mail: Julius.Dupree@usdoj.gov
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