In this edition of Minneapolis Promise Zone Updates:
- Federal Partners Visit to Assist with Community Trauma Program
- MPZ Partner, Voices for Racial Justice Receives Community Innovation Grant
- Teens: This Summer, Join the YMCA for FREE
- Minnesota's Aviation Career Education Camp Starts July 16th
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News and Events
- Recent Federal Grant and Partnership Opportunities
- About the Minneapolis Promise Zone
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Federal Partners Visit to Assist with Community Trauma Program
 ReCAST Minneapolis
The Resilience in Communities After Stress & Trauma (ReCAST) Minneapolis Program is funded through a multi-year grant from the Department of Health and Human Services' Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. ReCAST Minneapolis is intended to assist high-risk youth and families, and promote resilience and equity in communities that have recently faced civil unrest through implementation of evidence-based violence prevention and community youth engagement programs, as well as linkages to trauma-informed behavioral health services. SAMHSA created the ReCAST Program to support communities that have lived through demonstrations of mass protest in response to police-involved shootings of unarmed African-American males.
Five representatives from SAMHSA and the Now Is The Time Technical Assistance Center (NITT-TA) visited Minneapolis to offer expertise and support to the City of Minneapolis as a grantee. The ReCAST Team from the City extended invitations to meeting and events to the ReCAST Advisory Team as well as community members. The sessions were well attended and allowed community members and City staff to have meaningful conversations. Prior to the last session, two City Council Member's aids gave a community tour of North Minneapolis to the visitors.
After the community tour, ReCAST held a strategic planning session at the Urban League. The session was open to ReCAST Minneapolis community partners. The meeting provided time and space for reflections regarding the community tour. The rich dialogue that followed provided SAMHSA and NITT-TA staff with a better understanding of the current work occurring in North Minneapolis specifically around community and police relations. Central to the discussion was the shooting of Jamar Clark and the occupation that occurred afterward at the 4th precinct. The discussion addressed how there are various perspectives within the larger community that exist regarding the occupation. The discussion then shifted to how the strategic plan will be implemented in regards to the goal areas of: trust, capacity and shared decision-making. Key themes were: defining healing at an individual level (person, community, etc) and engaging the community without taxing or re-traumatizing them. Specifically between police and community the ability to say “I am wrong” was a critical point of emphasis. Furthermore, it’s important that citizens are asked “how do you want US to acknowledge mistakes?” in order to ensure sincerity that both sides feel is genuine.
The ReCAST Minneapolis Program covers the entirety of Minneapolis with an emphasis on the Northside, the Southside and Cedar-Riverside. With the site visit being restricted to two days, there was not enough time for a community tour of the other areas of Minneapolis. The SAMHSA and NITT-TA staff will be returning to see the rest of the city in order to offer appropriate assistance.
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MPZ Partner, Voices for Racial Justice Receives Community Innovation Grant
Three times a year, the Headwaters Foundation partners with the Bush Foundation to offer Community Innovation Grants. They recently awarded a total of $130,000 to 13 organizations that are pursuing community-led problem solving, innovation, equity, and justice in their communities. One of those organizations is Minneapolis Promise Zone partner, Voices for Racial Justice. Congratulations!
Another round of applications for Community Innovation Grants will open June 7, 2017. More information.
Voices for Racial Justice Website
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Teens: This Summer, Join the YMCA For FREE
The "Get Summer" program for teens will provide a safe, fun environment for teen to become well-rounded individuals, engaging them to develop their social-emotional skills, character and leadership to support success in school and in life.
Teens will have access to 25 YMCA of the Greater Twin Cities locations to enjoy basketball, swimming pools, splash decks, fitness centers, group exercise classes, free Wi-Fi, and more!
To register, visit your local YMCA June 1-12, 2017.
More information.
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 Minnesota's Aviation Career Education Camp Starts July 16th
Sunday, July 16th - Saturday, July 22nd
The cost of this week-long camp is $650 for Minnesota residents of $750 for out-of-state residents. This fee includes all expenses throughout the week; including food, lodging, transportation and all activity costs.
In addition to the online application, you will also need two letters of recommendation. One from a teacher, and one from a non-relative adult. There is also a $50 application fee for camp.
Financial assistance is available based on individual need. Please indicate you are requesting financial assistance on the application and you will be forwarded a scholarship application.
Application deadline in June 30th.
More information and application.
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News
Minneapolis officials, developers work to fill hundreds of vacant lots (05/21 - Star Tribune)
Years after the recession rocked some Minneapolis neighborhoods with foreclosures, the city owns hundreds of vacant lots - and pays thousands of dollars a month to keep them tidy. About 400 of the 500 lots are on the North Side, according to the city's department of Community Planning and Economic Development (CPED). The city acquired most of them relatively recently, often after they fell into tax forfeiture, but some of the lots have been empty since the late 1960s.
Jobs Increase and Racial Disparities Diminish (05/22 - Deed)
Minnesota boasts the largest monthly job gains in nearly four years.
Points to keep in mind: Minnesota's racial disparities seem to be slowly but surely diminishing, based on unofficial estimates from the Current Population Survey. To review: Over the past 12 months through April, the unemployment rate for black Minnesotans has averages 8.1 percent compared to 3.1 percent for whites. This is down from one year ago when these rates were 12.0 percent and 2.9 percent. The 8.1 percent rate is the lowest we have seen except for two months in late 2016 when we hit 8.0 percent and 7.9 percent. Put another way, there were 6,300 fewer unemployed black in Minnesota than there were a year ago.
Minneapolis Public Housing Authority takes stock of its 6,000 units (05/25 - Star Tribune)
The Minneapolis Public Housing Authority owns dozens of high-rises and hundreds of single-family homes and townhouses, among other properties - and they need millions of dollars worth of maintenance. As the new executive of MPHA, Greg Russ has to figure out where to start making fixes. He also has to come up with a way to pay for the repairs.
Five Conversations with the Crew from Appetite For Change (05/25 - MUNCHIES)
A viral music video is just the start for this Minneapolis-based youth activism group that's taking on one of America's worst food deserts. For the past year, Ogolsbey has been working for the Minneapolis-based organization Appetite For Change (AFC), which aims to reshape the way that the local community (and beyond) approached cooking, eating, and growing food. Founded in 2011 by Princess Titus, Michelle Horovitz, and Latasha Powell, AFC's primary objective is "to use food as a tool to build health, wealth, and social change."
Funding push aims to accelerate development of burgeoning food network in north Minneapolis (05/25 - MinnPost)
For years, several organizations - groups like Appetite For Change, Project Sweetie Pie and the Wilder Foundation's Mobile Market - have worked to increase access to healthy food on the city's north side. But more recently there's been a big push from funders to increase that work as part of an effort to address the area's food and health problems. In fact, last month, a handful of north Minneapolis organizations received $1.5 million in grants to grow their work around food access in the area, with the idea of eventually creating a self-sustaining food network.
Housing Secretary Ben Carson Says Poverty Is A 'State Of Mind' (05/25 - NPR)
When it comes to poor Americans, the Trump administration has a message: Government aid is holding many of them back. Without it, many more of them would be working. Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Director Mick Mulvaney said as much when presenting the administration's budget plan this week to cut safety net programs by hundreds of billions of dollars over the next 10 years.
Events
Hawthorne Neighborhood Council Fundraiser
June 4, 2017 - 1:00-4:00pm
2944 N. Emerson Ave, Minneapolis
United Nations of Minnesota - Diversity Futbol 2017
June 4, 2017 - 1:00-4:00pm
NSC Stadium - 1984 105th Ave NE, Blaine
Minneapolis Park Board Meeting
June 7, 2017 - 5:00pm
MPRB Headquarters - 2117 W. River Road N., Minneapolis
Upper Harbor Terminal Open House Meeting
June 8, 2017 - 5:30-7:00pm
Cityview School - 3350 N. 4th St., Minneapolis
Health Homes Resource Fair
June 22, 2017 - 5:00-8:00pm
3120 Washburn Ave N., Minneapolis
Above the Falls Community Advisory Committee Meeting
June 27, 2017 - 7:00pm
MPRB Heaquarters - 2117 W. River Road N., Minneapolis
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The following content is for informational purposes only. For additional details on the opportunities below, and to find additional opportunities, please visit www.grants.gov.
Promise Zone
Preference Points
If a discretionary funding opportunity indicates Promise Zone
(PZ) preference points are available, please visit http://www.ci.minneapolis.mn.us/promisezone/WCMSP-190631
for additional information on forms and contacts to request preference point
certification from the City of Minneapolis Promise Zone. Please submit your preference point request at least two weeks prior to the application deadline for Promise Zone certification approval consideration.
If a funding
opportunity does not indicate PZ preference points, you are still encouraged to
contact the Promise Zone Manager, Julianne Leerssen
(612-225-7721), about potential partnership opportunities to strengthen your
application.
EDUCATION, EMPLOYMENT, and STEM
ED: Department of Education
The Striving Readers Comprehensive Literacy (SRCL)
Program awards competitive grants to advance literacy skills, including
pre-literacy skills, reading, and writing, for children from birth through
grade 12, with an emphasis on disadvantaged children, including children living
in poverty, English learners, and children with disabilities.
The Javits program supports evidence-based research,
demonstration projects, innovative strategies, and similar activities designed
to build and enhance the ability of elementary and secondary schools nationwide
to identify gifted and talented (as defined in this notice) students and meet
their special educational needs.
The CCAMPIS Program supports the participation of
low-income parents in postsecondary education through provision of campus-based
child care services.
HHS: Department of Health and Human Services
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS),
Administration for Children and Families (ACF), Office of Family Assistance
(OFA) is announcing the solicitation of applications to competitively award
cooperative agreements in accordance with Section 413(b) of the Social Security
Act. Cooperative agreements awarded under this Funding Opportunity Announcement
will support projects to state, county, and tribal Temporary Assistance for
Needy Families (TANF) programs to plan and develop a comprehensive approach for
integrating innovative strategies in one of two select activities: (1) to
increase the use of innovative client coaching to foster the success of TANF
participants in securing and retaining work; or (2) to integrate career
pathway, occupation-focused employment models into TANF programs. The overall
purpose for the programs, services, and activities supported by this funding is
to improve the employment outcomes of TANF participants. In addition, the
program is intended to foster connections and partnerships between state TANF
agencies and local scholars/ researchers interested in TANF management and
policy. Successful applicants will participate in a TANF Policy Academy for
Innovative Employment Strategies as a part of the concept development process
for implementation and assessment.
The over-arching goal of this NIA R25 program is to
support educational activities that enhance the diversity of the biomedical,
behavioral and clinical research workforce in aging.
The over-arching goal of this NHLBI R25 program is to
support educational activities that enhance the diversity of the biomedical,
behavioral and clinical research workforce by providing research training and
research opportunities to undergraduate and health professional students.
DOC: Department of Commerce
NIST is soliciting applications from eligible applicants
to partner with the NICE program in its outreach efforts to the cybersecurity
education, training, and workforce development community; this program will
include planning and managing the NICE Annual Conference in the continental
United States for up to the next five years.
SMALL BUSINESS
SBA: Small Business Administration
The purpose of this Funding Opportunity is to invite
proposals for funding from private, non-profit microenterprise development
organizations; microenterprise development programs run by State/Local/Tribal
Governments; or Indian tribes interested in providing assistance and guidance
to disadvantaged microentrepreneurs and/or microenterprise development
organizations.
VETERANS
SBA: Small Business Administration
To provide procurement training and management support
services including curriculum development, graduate mentoring and counseling,
logistical preparation for course, to include participant registration,
marketing and promoting the VFPETP program to potential veteran and
service-disabled veteran candidates seeking training for government contracting
opportunities.
ED: Department of Education
The Upward Bound (UB) Program is one of the seven
programs known as the Federal TRIO Programs. The UB Program is a discretionary
grant program that supports projects designed to provide students with the
skills and motivation necessary to complete a program of secondary education
and to enter into, and succeed in, a program of postsecondary education. There
are three types of grants under the UB Program: UB; Veterans UB; and UB Math
and Science (UBMS) grants. In this notice we invite applications for Veterans
UB (VUB) grants only. The invitations to apply for UB and UBMS grants were
published in an earlier issue of the Federal Register. The VUB Program supports
projects designed to prepare, motivate, and assist military veterans in the
development of academic and other skills necessary for acceptance into and
success in a program of postsecondary education.
ARTS AND HUMANITIES
NEA: National Endowment for the Arts
The Our Town grant program supports creative placemaking
projects that help to transform communities into lively, beautiful, and
resilient places – achieving these community goals through strategies that
incorporate arts, culture, and/or design. Creative placemaking is when artists,
arts organizations, and community development practitioners deliberately
integrate arts and culture into community revitalization work - placing arts at
the table with land-use, transportation, economic development, education,
housing, infrastructure, and public safety strategies. This funding supports
local efforts to enhance quality of life and opportunity for existing
residents, increase creative activity, and create or preserve a distinct sense
of place
The National Endowment for the Arts’ support may begin no
earlier than March 1, 2018 and extend for up to 24 months. An organization may
submit only one proposal under this program solicitation. Program Description:
In recent years, the National Endowment for the Arts’ research agenda has
focused on yielding new knowledge about the value and impact of the arts.
Through the National Endowment for the Arts Research Labs (NEA Research Labs),
we seek to extend this agenda and its impact by cultivating a series of
transdisciplinary research partnerships, grounded in the social and behavioral
sciences, to produce and report empirical insights about the arts for the
benefit of arts and non-arts sectors alike. Each NEA Research Lab will define
its own research agenda, conduct a research program to implement that agenda,
and prepare reports that will contribute substantively to a wider understanding
of one of three areas of special interest to the National Endowment for the
Arts: 1. The Arts, Health, and Social/Emotional Well-Being a. Therapeutic
Approaches and Benefits b. Non-Therapeutic Approaches and Benefits 2. The Arts,
Creativity, Cognition, and Learning 3. The Arts, Entrepreneurship, and
Innovation We anticipate that a sustained engagement with these topic areas,
and with the corresponding research questions we frame below, will have
distinctive benefits not only for the arts community, but also for sectors such
as healthcare, education, and business or management. We intend for the NEA
Research Labs to serve as “hubs” or centers of excellence in the domain of
interest. Each NEA Research Lab will develop a pipeline of projects or
products, even while conducting at least one major study. In addition, NEA
Research Labs will be positioned to fulfill ad hoc analyses or information
requests concerning the research agenda being pursued, as may be required by
the National Endowment for the Arts during the project period of performance.
Such requests will not involve new data collection.
NEH: National Endowment for the Humanities
Summer Stipends support individuals pursuing advanced
research that is of value to humanities scholars, general audiences, or both.
Eligible projects usually result in articles, monographs, books, digital
materials and publications, archaeological site reports, translations, or
editions. Projects must not result solely in the collection of data; instead
they must also incorporate analysis and interpretation. Summer Stipends support
continuous full-time work on a humanities project for a period of two
consecutive months. Summer Stipends support projects at any stage of
development.
The Humanities Collections and Reference Resources (HCRR)
program supports projects that provide an essential underpinning for
scholarship, education, and public programming in the humanities. Thousands of
libraries, archives, museums, and historical organizations across the country
maintain important collections of books and manuscripts, photographs, sound
recordings and moving images, archaeological and ethnographic artifacts, art
and material culture, and digital objects. Funding from this program
strengthens efforts to extend the life of such materials and make their
intellectual content widely accessible, often through the use of digital
technology. Awards are also made to create various reference resources that
facilitate use of cultural materials, from works that provide basic information
quickly to tools that synthesize and codify knowledge of a subject for in-depth
investigation. HCRR offers two kinds of awards: 1) for implementation and 2)
for planning, assessment, and pilot efforts (HCRR Foundations grants).
CIVIC ENGAGEMENT
CNCS: Corporation for National and Community Service
This grant funds research on civic infrastructure and
civic engagement and related concepts. For 2017 the three broad priority areas
include how civic infrastructure and civic engagement are defined measured
developed and hindered, how individual civic engagement changes over the course
of a lifetime, impacts associated with civic engagement, volunteering or
national service. This competition is only open to institutions of higher
education and funds projects in two categories -dissertation and scholars.
Award amounts are expected to be in the range of $20,000 to $150,000 up to 2
years
PUBLIC AND COMMUNITY HEALTH
HHS: Department of Health and Human Services
The Empowered Communities for a Healthier Nation
Initiative seeks to demonstrate the effectiveness of collaborations with
academic research centers, prevention research centers, teaching hospitals, and
Native American Tribes and Tribal organizations to reduce significant health
disparities impacting minorities and disadvantaged populations through the
implementation of evidence-based strategies with the greatest potential for
impact. The program will serve residents in counties disproportionately
impacted by the opioid epidemic; reduce the impact of serious mental illness
and improve screening for serious mental illness at the primary care level for
children, adolescents and/or adults; and reduce obesity prevalence and
disparities in weight status among disadvantaged children and adolescents.
This funding opportunity is for competitive grants to be
awarded under the OAA Title IV authority to increase the evidenced based
knowledge base of nutrition providers, drive improved health outcomes for
program recipients by promoting higher service quality, and increase program
efficiency through innovative nutrition service delivery models. Funding will
support innovative and promising practices that move the aging network towards
evidenced based practices that enhance the quality, effectiveness of nutrition
services programs or outcomes within the aging services network. Innovation can
include service products that appeal to caregivers (such as web-based ordering
systems and carryout food products), increased involvement of volunteers (such
as retired chefs), consideration of eating habits and choice (such as variable
meal times, salad bars, or more fresh fruits and vegetables), new service
models (testing variations and hybrid strategies) and other innovations to
better serve a generation of consumers whose needs and preferences are
different. Innovation and promising practices may include the testing and
publishing of positive outcomes in which nutrition programs provide a
meaningful role in support of the health and long-term care of older
individuals. Outcomes should focus on methods to improve collaboration with
local health care entities, decrease health care costs for a specific
population or decrease the incidence of the need for institutionalization among
older adults. Through this program, funds may be used to help develop and test
additional models or to replicate models that have already been tested in other
community-based settings.
FYSB is forecasting a funding opportunity announcement
for the TLP and for MGH for a five year project period. The TLP and MGH
projects will work to implement, enhance, and/or support promising intervention
strategies for the effective transition of homeless youth (for the purposes of
MGH projects, homeless youth and their dependent children to sustainable
living. Both projects must provide safe, stable, and appropriate shelter for up
to 21 months and comprehensive services that supports the transition of
homeless youth to stable living.
The Administration for Children and Families (ACF),
Administration on Children, Youth and Families (ACYF), Family and Youth
Services Bureau (FYSB) support organizations and communities that work every
day to put an end to youth homelessness, adolescent pregnancy, and domestic
violence. FYSB's Runaway and Homeless Youth (RHY) program is accepting
applications for the Basic Center Program (BCP). The purpose of the BCP is to
provide temporary shelter and counseling services to youth who have left home
without permission of their parents or guardians, have been forced to leave
home, or other homeless youth who might otherwise end up in the law enforcement
or in the child welfare, mental health, or juvenile justice systems.
The purpose of these Funding Opportunity Announcements
(FOAs) is to support observational or intervention research focused on reducing
health disparities in tobacco use in the United States. Specifically, this FOA
is intended to stimulate scientific inquiry focused on innovative tobacco
control policies.
The purpose of this project is to increase community
integration and independence of individuals with developmental disabilities and
to improve the quality of home and community-based services (HCBS) by
developing and testing one or more model approaches of a coordinated and
comprehensive system that includes two interrelated core components for
enhancing and assuring the independence, integration, safety, health, and
well-being of individuals living in the community: (1) Community Monitoring and
(2) Community Capacity Building.
The purpose of the Elder Justice Innovation Grants
program is to support the development and advancement of new and emerging
issues related to elder justice. Funded projects will contribute to the
improvement of the field of elder abuse prevention and intervention at large,
such as by developing materials, programs, etc. that can be widely disseminated
and/or replicated, or by establishing and/or contributing to the evidence-base
of knowledge. For FY 2017, funded projects will continue to build the
evidence-base on successful approaches to reduce and ameliorate the harm people
experience as a result of abuse, neglect, and financial exploitation, and to
better understand what adult protective services practices produce the best
outcomes.
The purpose of this funding opportunity announcement
(FOA) is toenhance the participation of individuals from diverse backgrounds
underrepresented in cardiovascular, pulmonary, hematologic and sleep disorders
research across the career development continuum.
The goal of this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA)
is to efficiently use the existing cancer registry infrastructure by augmenting
data already collected with additional information needed to understand health
disparities among people diagnosed with cancer. Specifically, this FOA will
support the study of factors influencing observed health disparities within the
framework of population-based cancer registries by the inclusion of data not
routinely collected by or linked to the registries.
DOD: Department of Defense
The Health Disparity Research Award supports new ideas
based on innovative concepts or methodologies for health disparity research
with the potential to make an important contribution toward eliminating death
from prostate cancer and enhancing the well-being of men impacted by the
disease. Studies proposed for this award mechanism are expected to improve the
understanding of and/or address factors that contribute to differences in the
disease experience across populations, ultimately contributing to eliminating disparities
in prostate cancer incidence, morbidity, mortality, and survivorship.
Applicants for this award must explicitly state how the proposed research is
related to an area of prostate cancer health disparity. The PCRP is interested
in research that addresses all different aspects that contribute to health
disparity in prostate cancer, including social, cultural, and/or biological
contributors.
USDA: Department of Agriculture
The Agency will make grants to public bodies and private
nonprofit corporations, (such as States, counties, cities, townships, and
incorporated towns and villages, boroughs, authorities, districts, and Indian
tribes on Federal and State reservations) to provide associations Technical
Assistance and/or training with respect to essential community facilities
programs. The Technical Assistance and/or training will assist communities,
Indian Tribes, and Nonprofit Corporations to identify and plan for community
facility needs that exist in their area. Once those needs have been identified,
the Grantee can assist in identifying public and private resources to finance
those identified community facility needs.
CRIME, JUSTICE, AND PUBLIC SAFETY
USDOJ: Department of Justice
This initiative is composed of three categories and
eligibility are different for each category. Category 1: Training and Technical
Assistance. The Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP)
will provide funding to a national training and technical assistance (TTA)
provider to deliver intensive TTA to states and localities that are utilizing a
data-driven, collaborative, cross-disciplinary, multi-agency stakeholder
committee approach to develop and implement an integrated strategic plan to
strengthen and improve their juvenile justice policies, procedures, programs,
and practices at the system-wide level. Eligible applicants are limited to
private nonprofit organizations (including tribal nonprofit) and institutions
of higher education (including tribal institutions of higher education).
Category 2: State Planning Grants. OJJDP will provide funding to assist states
in the development of statewide juvenile justice reform strategic plans.
Eligible applicants are limited to states (including territories and the
District of Columbia).
OJJDP envisions a nation where our children are healthy,
educated, and free from violence. If they come into contact with the juvenile
justice system, that contact should be rare, fair, and beneficial to them.
OJJDP supports states and communities in their efforts to develop and implement
effective and coordinated prevention and intervention programs and to improve
the juvenile justice system so that it protects public safety, holds
justice-involved youth appropriately accountable, and provides treatment and
rehabilitative services tailored to the needs of youth and their families. This
program will assist OJJDP in coordination and assessment of its juvenile justice
reform programs.
The Youth with Sexual Behavior Problems (YSBP) Program
provides support to agencies that use a comprehensive, multidisciplinary
approach to provide intervention and supervision services for youth with sexual
behavior problems and treatment services for their child victims and families.
This program will provide project funding to eligible
nonprofit organizations (see Eligibility) that propose to develop, use, and
strategize around the use of technology in innovative ways to interact directly
with crime victims and provide information, referral, crisis assistance, and
longer term help. Through this solicitation, OVC seeks to support organizations
which demonstrate innovative strategies to create, expand, or enhance use of
technology initiatives on a national scale to improve response, services, and
access for victims of crime.
Evidence-based practice is the purposeful implementation
of processes that have been proven by research to be most effective. The
concept is an evolving one in the field of corrections, and within the field of
librarianship it is also beginning to be discussed. The correctional librarian is
uniquely positioned between both worlds, providing the services of a special
library in a correctional setting for a population of patrons with a variety of
criminogenic needs affecting their personal development toward a life free of
crime.Evidence-Based Librarianship in Corrections is an area of exploration for
the National Institute of Corrections to address the professional needs of the
nation’s library service providers working in corrections. By weaving together
the best of research and evidence from both the corrections and library
services fields, this work aims to fill the lack of information available to
professionals in the field looking for proven, evidence-based approaches to
professional questions.
Under the OVC FY 2017 Action
Partnerships for National Membership, Professional Affiliation, and Community
Service Organizations: Post-Conviction Services to Victims of Crime
solicitation, applicants will be asked to address one or a combination of the
following areas: Victim services throughout post-conviction involvement in
criminal cases through appeal, parole, and psychiatric review hearings, etc.
Unique issues in serving victims involved with cold cases (it is understood
there may not be an actual conviction in these instances), capital cases,
and/or wrongful conviction cases. Emerging issues such as retroactive
legislation making necessary protocols for victim notification and other
services and support. Provision of victim services through facilitated dialogue
processes such as victim driven voluntary restorative justice programs and/or
diversion programs or tribal peacemaking programs in lieu of conviction.
Field-generated ideas or other issues related to post-conviction services not
addressed above where applicants can effectively demonstrate a need or gap.
The Second Chance Act of 2007 (Pub. L. 110-199) provides
a comprehensive response to the increasing number of incarcerated adults and
juveniles who are released from prison, jail, and juvenile residential
facilities and returning to communities. There are currently over 2.2 million
individuals serving time in our federal and state prisons, and millions of
people cycling through tribal and local jails every year . Ninety-five percent
of all people incarcerated today will eventually be released and will return to
communities. The coordination of reentry of members of Native American tribes
is even more complex given that they can return from federal, Bureau of Indian
Affairs (BIA), state, local, and tribal facilities. The Second Chance Act helps
to ensure that the transition individuals make from prison, jail, or juvenile
residential facilities to the community is successful and promotes public
safety.
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About the Minneapolis Promise Zone
Promise Zones are federally designated, high poverty communities where the federal government partners with local leaders to increase economic activity, improve educational opportunities, and leverage private investment. The Minneapolis Promise Zone (MPZ) plan is a comprehensive, community-driven revitalization strategy that builds on and aligns numerous initiatives to address the persistent unemployment, crime, housing blight, and poor educational outcomes that affect that area.
Contact information: Juli Leerssen, (612) 225-7721
For more information, please visit www.minneapolismn.gov/promisezone
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