Readiness for Iowa Family Support in Justice Systems
GrantID: 73691
Grant Funding Amount Low: $10,000
Deadline: Ongoing
Grant Amount High: $100,000
Summary
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Grant Overview
Iowa's family support services for households affected by incarceration operate through fragmented county-level contracts that lack standardized outcome tracking. The state's 99 counties maintain separate human services offices with varying integration between corrections and social service data systems. Tenure-track assistant professors must design causal studies that exploit differences in service coordination intensity.
Readiness gaps include limited workforce trained to collect longitudinal family stability measures outside the Iowa Department of Corrections central office. Infrastructure constraints arise from rural broadband gaps that hinder real-time program monitoring across agricultural regions. Proposals require documentation of existing partnerships with at least three county service providers.
Eligibility requires assistant professor status at an Iowa institution and letters from the Iowa Department of Human Services confirming access to linked administrative records. Review emphasizes feasibility of matching designs that compare families receiving coordinated services against those receiving standard referrals. Applications must address state rules on release of information for incarcerated individuals' dependents.
Outcomes target measurable improvements in post-release employment and child welfare involvement for family members. Iowa's demographic profile features older median age and lower population density than neighboring states, producing distinct patterns of family separation due to incarceration. Faculty must specify how estimates will isolate coordination effects from county economic conditions.
Implementation uses merged corrections, workforce, and child welfare files under Iowa data governance statutes. Assistant professors outline plans to train local caseworkers on consistent outcome recording to support causal identification. Budgets allocate for travel to rural counties to verify service delivery fidelity.
Unlike Nebraska applications, Iowa requires demonstration that the research accounts for multi-county service regions where single providers cover several jurisdictions. Award decisions favor proposals that produce estimates robust to county population size variation.
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