Grant Management Resources

Resources for All Federal Grantees

• 2011 OJP Financial Guide, U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs

  The OJP Financial Guide serves as the primary reference manual to assist award recipients in fulfilling their fiduciary responsibility to safeguard grant funds and ensure funds are used for the purposes for which they were awarded. It compiles a variety of laws, rules and regulations that affect the financial and administrative management of your award. The Guide should be the starting point for all recipients and subrecipients in ensuring the effective day to day management of your awards. The provisions of the Guide apply to Department of Justice awards.

• The Office for Civil Rights Webinar for Second Chance Act Grantees, The Office for Civil Rights in the Office of Justice Programs, U.S. Department of Justice

  This Second Chance Act grantee-specific webinar addressed the federal civil rights requirements that accompany federal funding. In establishing financial assistance programs, Congress linked the receipt of federal funding to compliance with Federal civil rights laws. The Office for Civil Rights (OCR) in the Office of Justice Programs, U.S. Department of Justice, is responsible for ensuring that recipients of financial assistance from OJP and its component agencies comply with applicable Federal civil rights statutes and regulations. During the webinar, OCR staff provide an overview of federal civil rights laws and answer questions from attendees.

  In preparation for this webinar, the Office for Civil Rights asked that grantees review a series of case studies. In particular, webinar participants were asked to focus on the seventh and ninth case studies. These case studies can be downloaded here. To download a copy of the PowerPoint slides used in this webinar, please click here.

Resources Specifically for Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) Grantees

• 2011 Orientation/Grant Management Webinar

  The 2011 orientation and grant management webinar for BJA Second Chance Act grantees was held on Thursday, December 1, 2011.

  • To watch a recording of the webinar, click here.
  • To view the slides from the webinar, click here.
  • To view the FAQs that BJA developed for Second Chance Act grantees on grant management requirements, click here.
  • The Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act (FFATA), signed into law on September 26, 2006, requires information on federal awards be made available to the public via a single, searchable website, which is www.USASpending.gov. Recipients of awards of $25,000 or more will be required to report award information on any first-tier subawards totaling $25,000 or more, and, in certain cases, to report information on the names and total compensation of the five most highly compensated executives of the recipient and first-tier subrecipients. Reports regarding subawards will be made through the FFATA Subaward Reporting System (FSRS), found at www.fsrs.gov/. For more information about FFATA requirements,
    • Click here to view an Office of Justice Programs presentation on "Implementing the Federal Funding Accountability & Transparency Act (FFATA) and Using the FFATA Subaward Reporting System (FSRS)."
    • Click here to view FAQs on Executive Compensation & Subaward Reporting Information.
• Performance Measurement Resources

  All BJA grantees are required to regularly submit data through BJA's Performance Measurement Tool (PMT). To access the PMT system, click here.

Resources Specifically for Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) Grantees

• 2011 Orientation/Grant Management Webinar

  The 2011 orientation and grant management webinar for OJJDP Second Chance Act grantees was held on Friday, December 2, 2011.

  • To watch a recording of the webinar, click here.
  • To view the slides from the webinar, click here.
  • To view the FAQs that OJJDP developed for Second Chance Act grantees on grant management requirements, click here.
• Performance Measurement Resources

  All OJJDP grantees are required to regularly submit data through OJJDP's Data Reporting Tool (DCTAT). To access the DCTAT system, click here.

Program Management Resources

• Second Chance Act Grantee Conferences

  The first national conference for Second Chance Act grantees, Making Second Chances Work: A Conference for Grantees Committed to Successful Reentry, took place on May 26 and 27, 2010, in Washington, D.C. The second national conference for Second Chance Act grantees, Making the Most of Second Chances, took place February 23-25, 2011, in Washington, D.C. Powerpoint presentations and video recordings of select sessions from both conferences are available online.

  • To view materials from the 2010 conference, click here.
  • To view materials from the 2011 conference, click here.

  Information about the 2012 conference will be available soon.

• Tribal Grantee Webinar Featuring Blaine (Woody) Wood, National Reentry Resource Center

  On September 7, 2011, the National Reentry Resource Center sponsored this event hosted by AJ Ernst. The webinar featured a presentation by Blaine (Woody) Wood, the Executive Director of Wellbriety for Prisons and a Cherokee citizen registered with the Western Band of the Cherokee Nation in Tahlequah, Oklahoma. After straying from his culture for two decades, Woody found a new way of living through the Medicine Wheel and 12 steps program of White Bison's Wellbriety Movement. From his first arrest at the age of eight, Woody has been arrested 56 times and has served over 15 years in the prison system. In 1989, he chose to follow the Elders of White Bison and turn his life back to the traditions of his Native ways. To download the PowerPoint slides used in this webinar, click here.

• Other Webinars and Webcasts
• The Strategic Planning for Prisoner Reentry project
• Other Tools & Resources