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Solicitation for a Cooperative Agreement--Production of Seven Satellite/Internet Broadcasts

Tue, Nov 4 2008 11:00:00 GMT

The Department of Justice (DOJ), National Institute of Corrections (NIC) announces the availability of funds in FY 2009 for a cooperative agreement to fund the production of seven satellite/ Internet broadcasts. Five of the proposed satellite programs are nationwide satellite/Internet broadcasts (three and four hours each). One of the programs is eighthours in length and is for site coordinators as a precursor to a 32hour program. Another is a satellite/Internet Training Program which will be sixteen hours in length (four hours each day, Monday through Thursday). There will be a total of 39 hours of broadcast time in FY 2009.

Advisory Board Meeting

Thu, Sep 11 2008 11:00:00 GMT

Time and Date: 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. on Monday, October 6, 2008. 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. on Tuesday, October 7, 2008.

Place: Federal Correctional Complex, P.O. Box 1600, Butner, North Carolina 27509, Phone: 919.575.3900.

Status: Open.

Matters To Be Considered: The Advisory Board Members will tour the Federal Correctional Institution 1 and the Federal Medical Center; Presentations on Behavioral Health, multitude of behavioral health programs and operations across the complex; Agency Reports; Video presentation by the Director of Office of Justice Program's Smart Office on the Adam Walsh Act; U.S. Parole Commission; American Corrections Association; Federal Judicial Center.

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Contact Person for More Information: Thomas Beauclair, Deputy Director, 2023073106, ext. 44254.
Morris L. Thigpen,
Director.
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Solicitation for a Cooperative Agreement: Gender Responsive Management and Practice Assessment (Facility Version)

Mon, Aug 11 2008 11:00:00 GMT

The National Institute of Corrections (NIC) is soliciting proposals from organizations, groups or individuals who would like to enter into a cooperative agreement with NIC to work with an advisory team of experts on genderinformed policy and practice to complete the design and initial testing of a women offender policy and practice assessment protocol.

Solicitation for A Cooperative Agreement: Continuation of Evidence Based Implementation in Maricopa County, AZ, and

Mon, Aug 4 2008 11:00:00 GMT

Through this twelve month cooperative agreement NIC will build on work started in 2002 to implement systemwide evidence based policy and practices (EBP). This award will complete work already started in Maricopa County, Arizona, and Orange County, California, to enable them to sustain their rates of ongoing progress in terms of measured recidivism outcomes and other productivity indicators through time. Measured progress must be made in all organizational and system alignment areas indicated in the strategic plans already developed by both sites.

Solicitation for a Cooperative Agreement: Document--Inmate Behavior Management: Keeping Inmates Productively Occupied

Mon, Aug 4 2008 11:00:00 GMT

The National Institute of Corrections, Jails Division, is seeking applications for the development of a document that provides jail practitioners with a guide on developing and implementing programs and activities for jail inmates, as part of an overall strategy to manage inmate behavior.

Solicitation for a Cooperative Agreement: To Develop a Series of Papers on Parole

Tue, Jul 22 2008 11:00:00 GMT

The National Institute of Corrections (NIC) is soliciting proposals from organizations, groups or individuals who would like to enter into a cooperative agreement with NIC to develop a series of five papers related to parole with a primary audience of parole board members, parole staff, governors, appointing authorities, and related criminal justice agencies. The five papers will be developed over an eighteen month time. The initial paper will address core competencies for parole board members and executive parole staff in paroling authorities. Additional topics for this series will be determined by NIC and the vendor.

Project Goal: The overall goal of the initial paper is the development of a document on core competencies for parole board members and executive staff. This document will address the following:

Describe the competencies needed to be a parole board member, parole chair and executive parole staff;

Clarify how the competencies relate to the role of parole with other stake

Solicitation for a Cooperative Agreement: Training for Parole Board Members

Thu, Jul 3 2008 11:00:00 GMT

The National Institute of Corrections (NIC) is soliciting proposals from organizations, groups or
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individuals who would like to enter into a cooperative agreement with NIC to develop a 2436 hour field tested curriculum to train parole board members. The curriculum should include a blended approach to training utilizing instructorled facetoface and Webbased
instructional delivery strategies.

Solicitation for a Cooperative Agreement--Inmate Behavior Management: Implementation and Evaluation

Tue, Jun 17 2008 11:00:00 GMT

This project has two areas of focus: Assistance to selected jails in implementing the six elements of inmate behavior management and evaluation of the process and impact of implementation. The project award will be for a twoyear period, and the project will be carried out in conjunction with the NIC Jails Division. The awardee will work closely with NIC Jails Division staff.

Solicitation for a Cooperative Agreement: Document: A Guide To Planning Jail Programs

Wed, Jun 4 2008 11:00:00 GMT

The National Institute of Corrections, Jails Division, is seeking applications for the development of a document that provides jail staff with a guide on developing and implementing programs for jail inmates.

Solicitation for a Cooperative Agreement: Identifying Characteristics of High Performing Correctional Organizations

Wed, May 14 2008 11:00:00 GMT

The National Institute of Corrections (NIC) is soliciting proposals from organizations, groups or individuals to enter into a cooperative agreement for a 12month, developmental phase of a new initiative, ``Identifying the Characteristics of High Performing Correctional Organizations.'' This project will focus on developing a methodology to allow organizations to build from their strengths to identify and bridge gaps between current
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performance and optimal performance in terms of efficiency, effectiveness and accountability.

Project Goal: The products from this cooperative agreement will be to establish a model, accompanying assessment methodology, and appropriate performance measures that define a high performance correctional agency or system. The model will synthesize the literature about building highperformance organizations into diagnostic tools that can be put to practical use by organizations to understand their business practices and overall performance. The intended u

Advisory Board Meeting

Wed, May 7 2008 11:00:00 GMT

Time and Date: 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. on Monday, June 9, 2008. 8 a.m. to 11:30 p.m. on Tuesday, June 10, 2008.

Place: National Institute of Corrections, 500 First Street NW., 7th fl, Washington, DC 20534, Phone (202) 3073106.

Status: Open.

Matters To Be Considered: NIC executive Director's report; FY 09 Program Plan; Chairman McFarland will discuss the hearings of the PREA Review Panel; Review PREA Commission draft standards with Richard Hoffman, executive Director, PREA Commission; Reports from Office of Justice Programs, U.S. Parole Commission, American Correctional Association and Federal Judicial center.

Contact Person for More Information: Thomas Beauclair, Deputy Director, 2023073106, ext. 44254.
Morris L. Thigpen,
Director.
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Solicitation for a Cooperative Agreement--Administrative Support for the NIC Learning Center

Wed, Apr 30 2008 11:00:00 GMT

The National Institute of Corrections (NIC) has implemented Learn.com's Learn Center learning management system (LMS) to manage the NIC Learning Center. NIC has used this LMS for the past four years to manage its Webbased training (WBT). Through this cooperative agreement, services offered through the Learning Center will be expanded to bring access
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to all NIC training opportunities available through this system.

Solicitation for a Cooperative Agreement: Update and Expansion of Civil Liabilities Guidebook for Probation/Parole

Wed, Apr 30 2008 11:00:00 GMT

The National Institute of Corrections (NIC) is soliciting proposals from qualified organizations or individuals who would like to enter into an 18month cooperative agreement with NIC. It is intended that the following three products will be delivered by the awardee during the 18month time period:

Revision and updating of the NIC document entitled Civil Liabilities and Other Legal Issues for Probation/Parole Officers and Supervisors, Third Edition, U.S. Department of Justice, National Institute of Corrections; Rolando V. del Carmen and Maldine Beth Barnhill, Gene Bonham, Jr., Lance Hignite, & Todd Jermstad, Sam Houston State University, 2001;

Development of an Executive Supplement for directors and chiefs of probation, parole and other community corrections agencies that identifies legal issues and responsibilities unique to their chief executive level positions;

Development of various adult learning vehicles for training and dissemination of the material in the Fourth Edition of the

Solicitation for a Cooperative Agreement--Video Production: New Jail Planning

Wed, Apr 30 2008 11:00:00 GMT

The National Institute of Corrections (NIC), Jails Division, is seeking applications for the development and production of a broadcast quality, educational DVD covering the five phases of new jail planning.

Solicitation for a Cooperative Agreement--Evidence Based Decision Making for Local Criminal Justice Systems

Fri, Feb 22 2008 11:00:00 GMT

The National Institute of Corrections (NIC) is soliciting proposals from organizations, groups or individuals who would like to enter into a cooperative agreement with NIC for the eighteen month development phase of a new initiative, ``Evidence Based Decision Making for Local Criminal Justice Systems'' (justice systems).

Project Goal: The overall goal of the initiative is to establish and test articulated linkages (information tools and protocols) between local criminal justice decisions and the application of human and organizational change principles (evidence based practices) to achieve measurable reduction of pretrial misconduct and postconviction risk of reoffending. The unique focus of the initiative is locally developed strategies of criminal justice officials (broadly defined below) that guide practice within existing sentencing statutes and rules.

The initiative intends to: (1) Improve the quality of information that leads to making individual case decisions in local systems, and

Advisory Board Meeting

Thu, Feb 7 2008 11:00:00 GMT

Time and Date: 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. on Monday, February 25, 2008. 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. on Tuesday, February 26, 2008.

Place: National Institute of Corrections, 500 First Street, NW., 7th floor, Washington, DC 20534, Phone (202) 3073106.

Status: Open.

Matters to be Considered: Presentation of Needs Assessment; Report on Norval Morris Project; Agency Reports; Quarterly Report by Office of Justice Programs; U.S. Parole Commission; American Corrections Association; Federal Judicial Center.

Contact Person for More Information: Thomas Beauclair, Deputy Director, 2023073106, ext. 44254.
Morris L. Thigpen,
Director.
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Solicitation for a Cooperative Agreement: Strategic Planning Coordinator, Kansas Evidence Based Practices

Thu, Jan 31 2008 11:00:00 GMT

The National Institute of Corrections (NIC) solicits proposals from organizations or individuals for a 12month cooperative agreement to provide coaching on executive leadership and complex project management to achieve the implementation of evidence based practices (EBP) on offender risk reduction in the Kansas Department of Corrections (KDOC) Community Corrections Act oversight unit and a limited number of local community corrections agencies. The project is jointly supported by NIC and the JEHT Foundation.

This Request for Proposals seeks a successful applicant to facilitate the strategic change process at both the KDOC oversight and selected local community corrections agencies levels. The coaching will include evidence based policy and practice related to decision making by criminal justice officials and stakeholders; organizational development knowledge and strategies; and assessment, case management and behavioral interventions for the State's adult felony probation population. The se