Case Management Pilot Program

The objective of the Case Management Pilot Program (CMPP) is to ensure that noncitizens engaged in immigration removal proceedings and enrolled in the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Alternatives to Detention program have access to legal information and other critical services. CMPP service providers will provide case management, trafficking screening, legal orientation programs, and, as needed, mental health services, cultural orientation programs, connection to social services, and departure planning and reintegration services to noncitizens in immigration removal proceedings. The CMPP will enable the Department to determine whether CMPP services, delivered by nonprofits and/or local governments and overseen and managed by a National Board, are efficacious. For these purposes, efficacious means promoting compliance with immigration legal obligations, efficiencies within the immigration legal process, and other factors that are important for humanitarian reasons, including identifying victims of human trafficking and individuals potentially eligible for immigration relief.

The only eligible applicant is the CMPP National Board.

Beneficiaries of the Case Management Program are noncitizens in immigration removal proceedings.
The CMPP National Board is a restricted federal grant. All federal grants have terms and conditions that apply to all parties participating in the grant. For the CMPP, all parties mean the National Board, which is considered the Recipient, and local governments and/or nonprofits selected by the National Board to provide CMPP services, which are considered the Sub-Recipients.

The FEMA Grants Preparedness Division (GPD) will provide financial administrative functions for the award.
The National Board’s application will be evaluated and finalized for funding based on the following: (1) The proposed projects are compatible with CMPP requirements; and (2) The proposed costs are complete, reasonable, and cost-effective in relation to proposed projects and tasks.

Prior to making a federal award, FEMA is required by 31 U.S.C. § 3354, as amended by the Payment Integrity Information Act of 2019, Pub. L. No. 116-117 (2020); 41 U.S.C. § 2313; and 2 C.F.R. § 200.206 to review information available through any Office of Management and Budget (OMB)-designated repositories of governmentwide eligibility qualification or financial integrity information, including whether the applicant is suspended or debarred. FEMA may also pose additional questions to the applicant to aid in conducting the pre-award risk review. Therefore, application evaluation criteria may include the following risk-based considerations of the applicant:
i. Financial stability.
ii. Quality of management systems and ability to meet management standards.
iii. History of performance in managing federal award.
iv. Reports and findings from audits.
v. Ability to effectively implement statutory, regulatory, or other requirements.

Prior to making a federal award where the anticipated total federal share will be greater than the simplified acquisition threshold, currently $250,000:

i. FEMA is required to review and consider any information about the applicant, including information on the applicant’s immediate and highest-level owner, subsidiaries, and predecessors, if applicable, that is in the designated integrity and performance system accessible through the System for Award Management (SAM), which is currently the Federal Awardee Performance and Integrity Information System (FAPIIS).
ii. An applicant, at its option, may review information in FAPIIS and comment on any information about itself that a federal awarding agency previously entered.
iii. FEMA will consider any comments by the applicant, in addition to the other information in FAPIIS, in making a judgment about the applicant’s integrity, business ethics, and record of performance under federal awards when completing the review of risk posed by applicants as described in 2 C.F.R. § 200.206.