OpportunityTitle: BJA FY 15 Smart Defense Initiative: National Training and Technical Assistance
AdditionalInformationOnEligibility: Applicants are limited to for-profit organizations, nonprofit organizations (including tribal nonprofit or for-profit organizations), faith-based and community organizations, institutions of higher education (including tribal institutions of higher education), and consortiums with demonstrated experience providing national and local-level training and technical assistance.  For-profit organizations must agree to waive any profit or fees for services.
Description: The Smart Defense Initiative, administered by BJA, is part of BJA&#8217;s &#8220;Smart Suite&#8221; of criminal justice programs including Smart Pretrial, Smart Policing, Smart Supervision, and Smart Prosecution. BJA established the Smart Suite over 5 years ago with the creation of the Smart Policing Initiative. The Smart Suite supports criminal justice professionals in building evidencebased, data-driven criminal justice strategies that are effective, efficient, and economical. BJA&#8217;s smart programs represent a strategic approach that brings more &#8220;science&#8221; into criminal justice operations by leveraging innovative applications of analysis, technology, and evidence-based practices. The purpose of Smart Defense is to improve the quality of public defense delivery systems guided by the Ten Principles of a Public Defense Delivery System, promulgated by the American Bar Association (ABA). The ABA Ten Principles of a Public Defense Delivery System (the ABA Ten Principles) represent fundamental building blocks for implementing quality legal representation for indigent criminal defendants. Released in 2002, the ABA Ten Principles list the American Bar Association&#8217;s recommendations for government officials and other parties who are charged with improving public defense delivery systems. These principles address defenders&#8217; appropriate function, workload, resources, training, and quality, and have been recognized by the Attorney General &#8220;as [an] essential guidepost for ensuring that our indigent defense efforts are as effective- and as efficient &#8211; as possible.&#8221; To help jurisdictions strengthen state and local public defense delivery systems, BJA released a separate competitive grant announcement, the Smart Defense Initiative, to fund state and local sites. This competitive grant announcement specifically requests applications for one national training and technical assistance (TTA) provider to support and build capacity in the field and among those jurisdictions selected to be Smart Defense sites. This grant announcement does not solicit applications from individual jurisdictions to fund local Smart Defense programs. This program is funded under the Consolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations Act, 2015.
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