Postdischarge Youthful Offender Community Reentry Grant Programs.

Existing law establishes various educational, vocational, reentry, and other programs for offenders in custody or released to parole or probation. This bill would establish, until 2018, a youthful offender reentry competitive grant program consisting of grants administered by the California Emergency Management Agency to eligible nonprofit programs, as defined, to target offenders who will be 16 to 23 years of age upon discharge from local or Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation facilities, or probation or parole, as specified. The bill would specify that the bill does not mandate funding for the grant program and would authorize the agency to accept private contributions to fund its grants. The bill would provide that participation by discharged offenders would be voluntary, and that priority would be given to youths who are gang affiliated, or who have a family member who is gang affiliated, as specified. The bill would set forth those elements which, at a minimum, would be required to be provided in an eligible nonprofit program by a grantee.