Specifications include, but are not limited to: The New York State (NYS) Division of Criminal Justice Services (DCJS) seeks applications for funding from county government agencies or not-for-profit organizations to provide re-entry services to individuals released from prison to the NYS Department of Corrections and Community Supervision (DOCCS). Funding is available to support existing DCJS funded County Re-entry Task Forces (CRTFs) in the following counties: Albany, Bronx, Broome, Dutchess, Erie, Kings, Monroe, Nassau, New York, Niagara, Oneida, Onondaga, Orange, Rensselaer, Rockland, Schenectady, Suffolk, Ulster and Westchester. In addition, DCJS seeks applications to fund a new county re-entry task force in any jurisdiction that had more than 300 individuals released from DOCCS to their community in 2015. All CRTFs must serve the eligible population from within their entire county. This RFA seeks to increase the number of moderate to high risk individuals served and to expand the delivery of cognitive behavioral interventions and/or employment readiness programming.
