Get Your Passport. Now. February 2019

Find a Passport Event in a City Near You

Whether you’re traveling overseas or in need of a government-issued ID, getting your U.S. passport is the answer. To make it easier to apply, special passport fairs will be popping up in cities across the country in the next few months. In most cases, appointments are not required and Saturday hours are available. If you can't find a passport fair close to you, explore Travel.State.gov to learn where you can apply for a passport near you, rules for children under 16, fees associated with getting a passport, and more!

National REENTRY Resource Center. SCA Highlights, Publications, Funding Opportunities

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Featured NRRC Posts Berkeley Study Shines Light on the Pressures of Being a Corrections Officer It’s widely known that jails and prisons can be violent and stressful places to work. But the well-being of corrections officers, while a priority for corrections departments across the country, has rarely been the subject of formal study. This is a gap that Dr. Amy Lerman at the University of California, Berkeley; the California Correctional Peace Officers Association (CCPOA) union; and the CCPOA Benefit Trust Fund aim to fill. “We started this project because we want to better understand the impact of the work environment on our members and the research wasn’t there,” said Stephen Walker, director of Governmental Affairs for the CCPOA union. LEARN MORE ABOUT THE STUDY _____________________________________________________ Legislation to Fund the Federal Government for Fiscal Year 2019 Includes $87.5M for Second Chance Act President Trump signed the omnibus fiscal year 2019 spending bill, which provides $30.9 billion for the U.S. Department of Justice and includes $3.02 billion for various state and local law enforcement assistance grant programs. SEE THE FUNDING BREAKDOWN Funding Opportunities Second Chance Act Addressing the Needs of Incarcerated Parents and Their Minor Children This program provides funding to promote and expand services for incarcerated parents and their children under the age of 18 as well as helps children of incarcerated parents gain more access to services that support their needs. The deadline to apply is April 15.  LEARN MORE ABOUT THIS OPPORTUNITY Innovations in Supervision Initiative–Community Corrections-Led Violence Reduction Grant Program This grant program is inviting proposals from states, localities, and federally recognized tribal jurisdictions to serve as models for probation and/or parole partnerships with law enforcement and/or prosecuting agencies to reduce violent crime and recidivism among people under supervision. The deadline to apply is March 8.  LEARN MORE ABOUT THIS OPPORTUNITY _____________________________________________________ “How Being Trauma-Informed Improves Criminal Justice System Responses” Train-the-Trainer Events for Individuals SAMHSA GAINS Center Deadline: Feb. 22 Policy Advancing Transformation and Healing (PATH): A Young Adult Mental Health Policy and Systems Change Initiative Center for Law and Social Policy Deadline: Mar. 6 Adult Drug Court and Veterans Treatment Court Planning, Training, Technical Assistance, and Resource Center Initiative BJA Deadline: Apr. 16 Research and Evaluation on Promising Reentry Initiatives Program NIJ Deadline: May 13 MORE OPPORTUNITIES Featured Publications and Resources In Focus: Collecting and Analyzing Baseline Data Stepping Up Initiative Fact-Based Policy: How Do State and Local Governments Accomplish It? The Hamilton Project Mass Incarceration Threatens Health Equity in America Robert Wood Johnson Foundation in partnership with the University of California, San Francisco Top Trends in State Criminal Justice Reform, 2018 The Sentencing Project Tribal Reentry Advocacy Guide: A Roadmap for Increasing Access to Justice & Opportunity for Tribal Members with Criminal Records through Collaboration & Partnership Root & Rebound and the Yurok Tribal Court   Getting Talent Back to Work Toolkit Society for Human Resource Management in partnership with Koch Industries State Strategies for Establishing Connections to Health Care for Justice-Involved Populations: The Central Role of Medicaid The Commonwealth Fund Investing in Futures: Economic and Fiscal Benefits of Postsecondary Education in Prison Vera Institute of Justice and the Georgetown Law Center on Poverty and Inequality Making Good on the Promise: Building Trust to Promote Equity in Career Technical Education (CTE) Advance CTE   MORE PUBLICATIONS Upcoming Events 2019 Legislative Conference National Association of Counties Mar. 2–6, Washington, DC 2019 Winter Training Institute American Probation and Parole Association March 7–13, Miami, FL Second Chance Act Addressing the Needs of Incarcerated Parents and Their Minor Children Program [New Applicant Webinar] OJJDP Mar. 15 Twelfth Academic Health & Policy Conference on Correctional Health Academic Consortium on Criminal Justice Health Mar. 21–22, Las Vegas, NV   Twenty-fifth Annual Conference National Treatment Accountability for Safer Communities Apr. 29–May 1, Cleveland, OH Thirty-eighth Annual Conference and Jail Expo American Jail Association May 18–22, Louisville, KY 2019 Transforming Juvenile Probation Certificate Program Annie E. Casey Foundation, CSG Justice Center, and the Center for Juvenile Justice Reform Nov. 4–8, Washington, DC MORE EVENTS Media Clips How California Wants to Help Ex-Offenders Get Jobs at Community Colleges LAist—California The Future of Prison Reform in Florida WLRN—Florida [Opinion] Lock the Parole-Prison Revolving Door—Rethink a System That's Sending Far Too Many People Away for Minor Violations Daily News—New York Cummings and Other Lawmakers Press to Eliminate Job Discrimination against Former Felons Baltimore Fishbowl—National Prison Animal Programs Are Benefitting Both Inmates and Hard-To-Adopt Dogs in Florida, Experts Say ABC News—Florida   Tennessee Will Open First Prison Housing Units for Military Veterans Nashville Tennessean—Tennessee Delaware Department of Correction Awarded Two Rare Federal Grants to Help Fight Recidivism WDEL—Delaware Newsom Plans to Move California Juvenile Justice Division out of Corrections Department Los Angeles Times—California [Opinion] Rehabilitation Through Spirituality and Faith: Why Isn’t the Prison and Reentry Reform Movement Focused on the Capacity Building of Responsive and Compelling Change Agents? Berkley Forum—National New Mental Health Screening for Inmates Could Change Lives, Anderson Officials Say Independent Mail—South Carolina JOB OPPORTUNITIES AT THE CSG JUSTICE CENTER Facebook Twitter LinkedIn This project was supported by Grant No. 2016-MU-BX-K011 awarded by the Bureau of Justice Assistance. The Bureau of Justice Assistance is a component of the Department of Justice's Office of Justice Programs, which also includes the Bureau of Justice Statistics, the National Institute of Justice, the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, the Office for Victims of Crime, and the SMART Office. Points of view or opinions in this document are those of the author and do not necessarily represent the official position or policies of the U.S. Department of Justice.