For Immediate Release: June 29, 2010
Contact: Dennis Schrantz – 888.221.4615
dschrantz@npipm.com

The Public Welfare Foundation funds “Strategic Planning Capacity Building for Prisoner Reentry Under the Second Chance Act” 

The Public Welfare Foundation has granted the Center for Effective Public Policy (the Center) and its partner, Northpointe Institute for Public Management (Northpointe), funding to support “Strategic Planning Capacity Building for Prisoner Reentry Under the Second Chance Act.”  The federal Second Chance Act’s (SCA) demonstration grants provide funding for implementation activities such as direct services, grant administration, and staff training to support reentry efforts.  Additionally, SCA requires that states that request funding for demonstration projects develop and implement state-level comprehensive and strategic plans in order to reduce recidivism by as much as 50% over five years.  This grant award will allow the Center and Northpointe to support the development of these strategic plans and provide assistance directly to the states that will support the essential planning that will allow these systems to improve their performance, reduce crime, and reduce the costly cycle of offender failure.  This grant award will increase the capacity of states to create better strategic plans that will lead to more effective implementation efforts, will ultimately increase the likelihood that each jurisdiction will be able to impact the success rates of people returning home.  This will be critical to achieving the significant reductions in recidivism upon which their federal grant funding is based. 

The grant application received support from the National Institute of Corrections, the Bureau of Justice assistance, the National Reentry Resource Center, the John Jay College of Criminal Justice, and the Justice Policy Center of the Urban Institute.