Deadline: 31-May-22
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), Office of Justice Programs (OJP), Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) seeks applications for funding under five separate training and technical assistance (TTA) categories for multiple justice and mental health programs to deliver site-based, program-specific TTA and broader TTA for the field.
Goals
- Category 1: Assist and provide comprehensive TTA to grantees and the field to facilitate cross-system collaboration among the criminal justice, mental health, and substance use treatment systems and services to increase access to mental health treatment, recovery supports, and needed services for individuals with MHDs or co-occurring MHSUDs.
- Category 2: The TTA will focus on assisting law enforcement and their behavioral health (mental health and substance use) and social service provider partners to design, develop, and implement model response programs.
- Category 3: The TTA will improve, implement, and/or operationalize the:
- Establishment of protocols and processes to improve the response to people with MHDs and cooccurring MHSUDs through both 911 and 988 calls for assistance by building dispatch capacity.
- Assistance to justice and behavioral health agencies to implement best practice policies related to responding to people with MHDs and co-occurring MHSUDs.
- Facilitation and coordination of BJA’s law enforcement and mental health peer learning sites and other peer-to-peer learning opportunities.
- Assistance to departments to identify, code, and count calls for service resulting in a national count in the number of calls for service and to inform policy involving people with MHDs and MHSUDs.
- Development and creation of topically relevant law enforcement resources pertaining to reducing unnecessary citizen contact with the criminal justice system.
- Creation of a resource repository and coordination of BJA-supported law enforcement-related TTA providers including those that support JMHCP; the Collaborative Crisis Response and Intervention Training Program; Comprehensive Opioid, Stimulant, and Substance Abuse (COSSAP) Program; and the Students, Teachers, and Officers Preventing School Violence (STOP) Program.
- Category 4: Provide TTA to BJA’s Collaborative Crisis Response and Intervention Training Program grantees and deliver BJA’s Collaborative Crisis Response and Intervention Training Program Curriculum to agencies requesting it throughout the field. Develop and expand resources to people in crisis who have MHD, co-occurring MHSUDs, or physical and developmental disabilities.
- Category 5: Deliver TTA to support BJA’s Kevin and Avonte’s Law grantees to implement practices that reduce the number of deaths and injuries to individuals with forms of dementia, such as Alzheimer’s disease, or developmental disabilities, such as autism, who, due to their condition, wander from safe environments, and to track missing individuals and/or develop or operate programs to prevent wandering, increase individuals’ safety, and facilitate rescue.
Funding Information
- Estimated Total Program Funding: $8,600,000
- Award Ceiling: $2,300,000
Eligibility Criteria
- Public and state-controlled institutions of higher education
- Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
- Nonprofits that do not have a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
- Private institutions of higher education
- For-profit organizations other than small businesses
- For all categories: Eligible applicants are nonprofit organizations (including tribal organizations) and for-profit (commercial and tribal) organizations, faith-based and community organizations, and institutions of higher education (including tribal institutions of higher education).
For more information, visit https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=339639