Summary
The New York State Unified Court System (UCS) is soliciting letters of interest from qualified evaluators to provide youth-part evaluation services over a two-year period from approximately September 1, 2026 to September 30, 2028. The work supports the Empowerment Through Wellness to Prevent Gun Violence Initiative, which provides community-based violence intervention services and technical assistance to judges and court staff working with justice-involved youth involved in gun-related offenses, and involves data collection, program monitoring, and evaluation activities across eight youth pilot sites located in Suffolk, Nassau, Kings, Bronx, Monroe, Erie, Queens, and New York (Manhattan) Counties. The work is related to a Byrne State Crisis Intervention Program (SCIP) grant administered by the New York State Division of Criminal Justice Services (DCJS) and funded by the U.S. Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA); this is a contract for evaluation services, not a grant program itself.