The Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) was created in 1984 to reduce violent crime, create safer communities, and reform our Nation’s criminal justice system. BJA’s mission is to provide leadership and services in grant administration and criminal justice policy development to support state, local, and tribal justice strategies to achieve safer communities. BJA works with communities, governments, and nonprofit organizations to reduce crime, recidivism, and unnecessary confinement, and promote a safe and fair criminal justice system.
The grant program aims to fund organizations that will act as financial intermediaries for community-based reentry programs. These funds are intended to support, via an incubator model, the increase of capability and capacity within the subawardees’ organizations to boost their effectiveness in reentry efforts.