Funding Opportunity Title: Law Enforcement and the Communities They Serve: Supporting Collective Healing in the Wake of Harm
Funding Opportunity Number: NIJ-2017-12620
Category of Funding Activity: Law, Justice and Legal Services
Expected Number of Awards: 1
Awards: $500,000
Deadline:  May 15, 2017
Description: The National Institute of Justice (NIJ) has a longstanding history of collaboration with and supporting the Office for Victims of Crime (OVC) on research, evaluation, and programmatic projects. With this solicitation, in partnership OVC, NIJ seeks competitive proposals for a single award that will support evaluation research on the Vision 21: Law Enforcement and the Communities They Serve: Supporting Collective Healing in the Wake of Harm (Collective Healing). This purpose of this award will be to support an initial one-year planning phase to develop comprehensive evaluation options to assess the pilot sites of the Collective Healing initiative. Results from this evaluation planning phase may lay the groundwork for a possible targeted larger evaluation program of the Collective Healing program.