Located in:
- Program-specific Requirements for Adult Education and Family Literacy Act Programs
The Unified or Combined State Plan must include a description of the following as it pertains to adult education and literacy programs and activities under title II of WIOA, the Adult Education and Family Literacy Act (AEFLA).
c. Corrections Education and other Education of Institutionalized Individuals
Describe how the State will establish and operate programs under section 225 of WIOA for corrections education and education of other institutionalized individuals, including how it will fund, in accordance with the requirements of title II subtitle C, any of the following academic programs for:
- Adult education and literacy activities;
- Special education, as determined by the eligible agency;
- Secondary school credit;
- Integrated education and training;
- Career pathways;
- Concurrent enrollment;
- Peer tutoring; and
- Transition to re-entry initiatives and other post release services with the goal of reducing recidivism.
Each eligible agency using funds provided under Programs for Corrections Education and Other Institutionalized Individuals to carry out a program for criminal offenders within a correctional institution must give priority to serving individuals who are likely to leave the correctional institution within 5 years of participation in the program.
Current Narrative:
Each eligible agency using funds provided under Programs for Corrections Education and Other Institutionalized Individuals to carry out a program for criminal offenders within a correctional institution must give priority to serving individuals who are likely to leave the correctional institution within 5 years of participation in the program.
Indiana’s process to award funds provided under Programs for Corrections Education and Other Institutionalized Individuals is the same as above (b). Further, DWD awards between 1% and twenty 20% percent of the total funds made available through an RFA to be used specifically to provide adult education and literacy activities to eligible individuals currently incarcerated in a state prison or correctional facility, a county jail, or are currently participating in Indiana’s community corrections program. DWD requires all programs providing adult education and literacy activities to criminal offenders in state or county custody to give priority to individuals who are likely to leave state or county custody within 5 years of receiving adult education and literacy services.
In the RFA, eligible providers list the location(s) where adult education activities (including IET and secondary school credits) to eligible individuals who are currently inmates in state prisons, county jails, or are part of Indiana’s community corrections programs are planned. A description how the applicant plans to identify and provides services for eligible individuals with accommodated educational needs (disabilities and/or learning disabilities) in the corrections environment must be specified. Additionally, the applicant’s capacity to deliver adult education and literacy activities must be addressed, as well as how the applicant plans to offer or partner with others to offer transitional services to eligible individuals exiting custody.