National Institute of Corrections Grant for Learning & Performance Course Preparation and Delivery

NIC welcomes applications that involve two or more entities; however, one eligible entity must be the applicant and the others must be proposed as subrecipients. The applicant must be the entity with primary responsibility for administering the funding and managing the entire program. Only one (1) application will be accepted from a submitting organization.

The National Institute of Corrections (NIC) is the only federal agency with a legislative mandate (Public Law 93-415) to provide specialized services to corrections from a national perspective. NIC provides direct service as the primary means of carrying out its mission and responds directly to needs identified by practitioners working in state and local adult corrections, the Federal Bureau of Prisons, the Department of Justice, other federal agencies, and the United States Congress. As a center of learning innovation that shapes and advances effective correctional practice and public policy, NIC is a vital partner in planning, developing, delivering, and supporting learning and performance training related to capacity building for the field of corrections. NIC believes it takes skilled learning professionals to improve correctional practices and outcomes. Current research into practice shows that learning and performance is a process that requires dedicated effort through continuous learning and professional improvement. Effective learning and performance programs align with agency operational and strategic needs both with the agency delivering the programs, as well as with the external agencies receiving the learning and performance training. As a result, NIC is seeking to partner for the preparation and delivery of two NIC courses: The Learning Designer (two virtual deliveries) and The Learning and Performance Coach (two hybrid deliveries).