Time Limited Grant Opportunities

Purpose:

The CARE grant is to provide grants to eligible non-profit organizations to fund CARE grant programs at one or more CDCR institutions. Applicants are required to develop a specific proposal designed to meet the unique needs and requirements of the proposed grant program(s), as well as meet the needs of the incarcerated individuals in CDCR institutions, where the CARE grant programs will be provided.

Description:

This project will provide $5 million in grants per year for three fiscal years ($15 million total) to eligible non-profit organizations to fund transformative programs in one or more CDCR institutions. The grant period begins on July 1, 2025, and ends June 30, 2028. Grants shall be awarded to fund programs that provide insight-oriented, restorative justice programs focused on increasing empathy and accountability among participants that can demonstrate that the approach has produced, or will produce, positive outcomes in correctional environments as stated in California PC § 5007.3.

(B) Grants shall be awarded to fund programs that provide insight oriented restorative justice and offender accountability programs that can demonstrate that the approach has produced, or will produce, positive outcomes in department facilities, including, but not limited to:(i) Increasing empathy and mindfulness.(ii) Increasing resilience and reducing the impacts of stress andtrauma.(iii) Reducing violence in the form of physical aggression, verbalaggression, anger, and hostility.(iv) Successfully addressing and treating the symptoms of posttraumaticstress disorder.(v) Victim impacts and understanding.