Deadline: 22-Jun-21
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), Office of Justice Programs (OJP), Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) is seeking applications for the Justice and Mental Health Collaboration Program.
Goal: The Justice and Mental Health Collaboration Program offers grants to help entities prepare, create, or expand comprehensive plans to implement collaboration programs that target preliminarily qualified offenders and promote public safety and public health for people with MI and CMISA involved in the justice system.
Objectives
BJA is seeking applicants to:
- Enhance, expand, and operate mental health drop-off crisis stabilization treatment centers that support law enforcement, criminal justice agencies, and people who are involved in the justice system.
- These centers can provide, but are not limited to, the following services: screening and assessment, crisis care, residential treatment, assisted outpatient mental health treatment, primary care services, telehealth, competency restoration, community transition, and reentry support.
- Increase community capacity for mental health advocacy and wraparound services evidenced to support people with severe mental illness that are involved in the criminal justice system.
- Provide programmatic support and capacity building for criminal justice professionals — such as jails, courts, and prosecutors — and community supervision to target individuals with severe mental health needs at risk of recidivism. For law enforcement-focused projects, see the separate law enforcement-focused solicitation entitled Connect and Protect: Law Enforcement Behavioral Health Response Program.
Priority Areas
In FY 2021, and in addition to executing any OJP policy prioritization that may be applicable, priority consideration will be given to applications that:
- Promote effective strategies by law enforcement to identify and reduce the risk of harm to individuals with MI or CMISA and to public safety. Promote effective strategies for identification and treatment of female offenders with MI and CMISA.
- Promote effective strategies to expand the use of mental health courts and related services.
- Propose interventions that have been shown by empirical evidence to reduce recidivism.
- When appropriate, use validated assessment tools to identify and prioritize individuals with a moderate or high risk of recidivism and a need for treatment services.
- Demonstrate and ensure that funds are used for public health and public safety; demonstrate active participation of co-applicants in administering the project; document, in whole or in part, that funds used for treatment of incarcerated populations will provide transition and reentry services for such individuals.
Funding Information
- Anticipated Total Amount to be Awarded Under Solicitation: $10,000,000.00
- Anticipated Maximum Dollar Amount of Awards: $550,000.00
- Anticipated Number of Awards: 18
- Period of Performance Start Date: 10/1/21 12:00 AM
- Period of Performance Duration (Months): 36
Eligibility Criteria
- City or township governments, County governments, Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized), Public and State controlled institutions of higher education, State governments, Other
- The term “mental health agency” means an agency of a state or local government or its contracted agency that is responsible for mental health services or co-occurring mental health and substance abuse services.
- In this solicitation, “state” means any state of the United States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, American Samoa, Guam, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands. BJA will only accept applications that demonstrate the proposed project will be administered jointly by an agency with responsibility for criminal or juvenile justice activities and a mental health agency.
- A “criminal justice agency” is an agency of state or local government or its contracted agency that is responsible for detection, arrest, enforcement, prosecution, defense, adjudication, incarceration, probation, or parole relating to the violation of the criminal laws of that state or local government.
- All recipients and subrecipients (including any for-profit organization) must forgo any profit or management fee.
For more information, visit https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=333647