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                  - Home
                  - Grants                      - Project Grants
                    - Technical Assistance Grants
                    - Curriculum Adaptation & Training Grant
                    - Strategic Initiatives Grants
                    - Education Support Program
                    - Funding Toolkit 
                  - News
                  - Grantee Spotlights
                  - Priority Investment Areas                      - Court Pandemic Response and Recovery Grant Program 
                  - Grant Management
                  - About SJI                      - Board of Directors
                    - Executive Director
                    - Past Members
                    - SJI Budget 

### Supporting the Nation's Judicial System & the Public it Serves

## Curriculum Adaptation & Training Grant

## **Curriculum Adaptation & Training Grants are intended to: enable courts or national court associations to modify and adapt model curricula, course modules, or conference programs to meet states’ or local jurisdictions’ educational needs; train instructors to present portions or all of the curricula; and pilot-test them to determine their appropriateness, quality, and effectiveness; or to conduct judicial branch education and training programs, led by either expert or in-house personnel, designed to prepare judges and court personnel for innovations, reforms, and/or new technologies recently adopted by grantee courts.**

#### **SIZE AND DURATION OF GRANT**

Curriculum Adaptation and Training (CAT) Grants may not exceed $40,000 and 12 months in duration. Examples of expenses not covered by CAT Grants include the salaries, benefits, or travel of full-or part-time court employees.

#### MATCH

Applicants for CAT Grants are required to contribute a total match (cash and in-kind) of not less than 50 percent of the SJI award amount, of which 20 percent must be cash.  For example, an applicant seeking a $40,000 CAT grant must provide a $20,000 match, of which up to $16,000 can be in-kind and not less than $4,000 must be cash.

#### **HOW TO APPLY**

All grant applications must be submitted via the online Grant Management System (GMS).  Refer to the Grant Application Guide for details about what an application for a Curriculum Adaptation & Training Grant must include.

#### **SELECTION CRITERIA**

In addition to the criteria detailed below, SJI will consider whether the applicant is a state or local court, a national court support or education organization, a non-court unit of government, or other type of entity eligible to receive grants under SJI’s enabling legislation; the availability of financial assistance from other sources for the project; the diversity of subject matter, geographic diversity; the level and nature of the match that would be provided; reasonableness of the proposed budget; the extent to which the proposed project would also benefit the federal courts or help state or local courts enforce federal constitutional and legislative requirements; and the level of appropriations available to SJI in the current year and the amount expected to be available in succeeding fiscal years, when determining which projects to support.

**CAT Grant applications will be rated based on the following criteria:**
                  - Goals and objectives of the proposed project
                  - How the training would address a critical need of the court or association
                  - Need for outside funding to support the program
                  - Soundness of the approach in achieving the project’s educational or training objectives
                  - Integration of distance learning and technology in project design and delivery
                  - Qualifications of the trainer(s) to be hired or the specific criteria that will be used to select the trainer(s)  (training project)
                  - Likelihood of effective implementation and integration of the modified curriculum into the state or local jurisdiction’s ongoing educational programming  (curriculum adaptation project)
                  - Commitment of the court or association to the training program  (training project)
                  - Expressions of interest by judges and/or court personnel, as demonstrated by letters of support

#### CONTACT US

          contact@sji.gov
                       Tel: 703.660.4979

#### HEADQUARTERS

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                       Fairfax, VA 22033         

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