Overview:
The Serious and Violent Offender Reentry Initiative is supported by the Department of Justice's Office of Justice Programs (OJP) and its federal partners: the U.S. Departments of Education, Health and Human Services, Housing and Urban Development, and Labor. This initiative is a comprehensive effort that addresses both juvenile and adult populations of serious, high-risk offenders. It provides funding to develop, implement, enhance, and evaluate reentry strategies that will ensure the safety of the community and the reduction of serious, violent crime. This is accomplished by preparing targeted offenders to successfully return to their communities after having served a significant period of secure confinement in a state training school, juvenile or adult correctional facility, or other secure institution.
SVORI envisions the development of model reentry programs that begin in correctional institutions and continue throughout an offender's transition to and stabilization in the community. These programs provide for individual reentry plans that address issues confronting offenders as they return to the community. The initiative encompasses three phases and is implemented through appropriate programs:
Phase 1-Protect and Prepare: Institution-Based Programs. These programs are designed to prepare offenders to reenter society. Services provided in this phase include education, mental health and substance abuse treatment, job training, mentoring, and full diagnostic and risk assessment.
Phase 2-Control and Restore: Community-Based Transition Programs. These programs work with offenders prior to and immediately following their release from correctional institutions. Services provided in this phase include, as appropriate, education, monitoring, mentoring, life-skills training, assessment, job-skills development, and mental health and substance abuse treatment.
Phase 3-Sustain and Support: Community-Based Long-Term Support Programs. These programs connect individuals who have left the supervision of the justice system with a network of social services agencies and community-based organizations to provide ongoing services and mentoring relationships.
Funding: Final funding amounts were determined in the summer of 2004 and awards were made in September of FY 2004.
FY 2004 awards
How To Apply: Currently there is no open solicitation under this program
Training/Technical Assistance: The following agencies and organizations provide training and technical assistance that may be of use to those developing reentry programs:
Center for Sex Offender Management
Community Capacity Development Office
National Training and Technical Assistance Center
OJJDP Intensive Aftercare Programs: Juvenile Reintegration and Aftercare Center
State Activities and Resources: An online map provides information—by state—about OJP reentry grantees, state resources and contacts, and other OJP resources.
Related Publications/Information:
Serious and Violent Offender Reentry Initiative (FY 2004 Supplemental Funding Application)
A list of related publications is available online and updated periodically.
FY 2002 Reentry Grantees
Related Link:
Serious and Violent Offender Reentry Initiative
Contact Information:
Robert Hendricks, Policy Advisor
Bureau of Justice Assistance
810 Seventh Street NW.
Washington, DC 20531
202-305-1909
Fax: 202-616-2421
E-mail: robert.hendricks@usdoj.gov
