Community Responses

LISC co-hosted an office hours event with NPI and BJA to answer further questions regarding the RVCRI grant opportunity.

LISC co-hosted a grant solicitation webinar (second round of pass-through funding) with NPI and BJA on February 23rd, 2023. This opportunity helped explain the RVCRI grant opportunity, allowable uses of funds, eligible organizations that could apply and the overall application process.

LISC co-hosted a grantee orientation (the first cohort of sub-grantees) webinar with NPI and BJA on February 16th, 2023. As follow-up to the webinar, LISC TA leads began their initial round of introductory calls with sites. During these calls, LISC’s TTA model was outlined – focusing on authentic community engagement, adherence to evidence based practices, project management by a strong cross-sector partnership and examining revitalization opportunities to complement projects.

Tom Wyatt served as a co-presenter on LISC's RVCRI knowledge sharing event on June 8th, 2023. He also co-developed a presentation deck and participated in pre-event planning calls.

The CTAS New Grantee Orientation was held in person in December 2022. This Orientation was offered as a 1 day event focusing on the main sessions. New grantee workshop sessions were held in March 2023 to offer new grantees an opportunity to attend a virtual meeting on program specific grant requirements and to meet TTA providers to discuss services available to help new grantees in their grant program implementation.

Coordinate up to three webinars per implementation year in partnership with LISC. Webinar concepts were submitted to OJP for approval. OJP placed this activity on hold until after the 2024 CVIPI Grantee Conference.

LISC Staff James Stark with subject matter expert Tom Wyatt provided training to site partners and Spartanburg PD Officers on place-based problem solving methods and Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED) during a half-day training. James and Tom also met with key partners in the leadership team to help guide them through expected BCJI planning activities and deliverables.

LISC Staff Matt Perkins and James Stark with subject matter expert Tom Wyatt provided training to Providence PD Officers and property owners on place-based problem solving methods and Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED) during a full day training.

BJA Program Managers reached out to us asking us to engage with the Virgin Islands, as they have a hold on all of their JAG awards since the requirement to complete a strategic plan was added in FY2019. The Virgin Islands submitted a 2.5 page strategic plan document to one of the BJA program managers in August of 2022, which was forwarded on to us. NCJA staff worked in tandem with the Virgin Islands' staff to add additional information and clarification to their existing JAG strategic plan to ensure it met all federal requirements.

The SAA out of Minnesota reached out to us requesting our assistance in the development of a stakeholder needs assessment survey for their upcoming JAG strategic plan. Specifically, they requested help in developing the questions, formatting the survey and then analyzing it on the backend. In conjunction with the SAA, NCJA staff designed a 37 question stakeholder survey, logic-based, and the MN SAA distributed that survey out beginning on March 27. The survey closed on May 31 with 307 responses.