The federal Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention has awarded the N.C. Department of Public Safety with a 2019 Second Chance Act Grant for the expansion, adaptation and evaluation of the Juvenile Justice section’s Youth Reentry Program. The grant, worth $1.16 million, will continue funding for the Youth Reentry Program, also known as Reentry to Resiliency (R2R), initiated with grant funding in 2016. The Department partnered with Communities in Schools of North Carolina (CISNC) to pilot the R2R program in four counties: Wake, Durham, Guilford and Cumberland. The new funding will enable the expansion of the program to two additional counties (Mecklenburg and Nash), and will help officials adapt the program model to better meet the needs of the transition-age young people who will be served by the juvenile justice system when the age of juvenile jurisdiction increases to 18 in December 2019