Second Chance Act Pay for Success Program

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The Second Chance Act Pay for Success Program offers grants to provide transitional services and programs to improve reentry, reduce recidivism, and address the treatment and recovery needs of people with mental health, substance use, or co-occurring disorders who are currently or were formerly involved in the criminal justice system.

The program allows government entities to form partnerships with service providers that tie payment for services to reaching agreed-upon goals. Program objectives include:

Category 1: Focuses on performance-based and outcomes-based contracts for reentry services to:

• Enhance or establish individualized reentry services for people leaving incarceration and assessed as medium or high risk for recidivism
• Deliver individualized services based on risk and needs identified through a validated criminogenic risk and need assessment tool
• Include a range of performance-based or outcomes-based reentry services contract elements, such as data and report collection, regular performance and outcome reviews, on- and offsite monitoring, outcomes validation, and incentivizing payment approvals and results
• Ensure government staff and service providers have adequate training on performance-based or outcomes-based procurement, reentry services, data collection, and outcomes validation

Category 2: Focuses on performance-based and outcomes-based contracting for permanent supportive housing that require recipients to:

• Enter into contracts to provide evidence-based, high-quality permanent supportive housing (PSH) to formerly incarcerated individuals who have a substance use disorder.
• Manage the performance-based or outcomes-based PSH contract, including data and report collection, regular performance and outcome reviews, on- and offsite monitoring, performance and outcomes validation, and incentive payment approvals
• Ensure government staff and service providers have adequate training on performance-based or outcomes-based procurement, PSH, data collection, and outcomes validation.

Priority consideration will be given to applications that meaningfully advance equity and remove barriers to accessing services and opportunities for communities that have been historically underserved, marginalized, adversely affected by inequality, and disproportionately impacted by crime, violence, and victimization.

Eligible applicants include:

• State governments
• City and township governments
• County and special district governments
• Federally recognized tribal governments
• Public housing authorities/Indian housing authorities

Award ceiling: $1,000,000
Project period: 54 months
Estimated number of awards: 6
Estimated total program funding: $6,000,000

Links to the full announcement, application instructions, and the online application process are available through grants.gov.

Applicants should submit an SF-424 and an SF-LLL in grants.gov by the April 25, 2024 deadline.

Submit the full application, including attachments, in the JustGrants grants management system by the April 30, 2024 deadline.