Deadline: 24-Feb-2025
The Improving Adult and Youth Crisis Stabilization and Community Reentry Program provides grant funds, along with support from subject matter experts, to provide screening and supportive services as early as possible pre-release, during, and after reentry to address those at greater risk for a crisis during these times of transition.
This program facilitates comprehensive treatment, recovery, and other supportive reentry services to adults, youth, and young adults with mental health and/or substance use disorders who are currently involved in the criminal or juvenile justice systems or are transitioning home from a prison, jail, or juvenile detention facility.
Goals and Objectives
- Goal 1: To establish or expand cross-system approaches to reduce the risk of crisis and improve reentry and recovery outcomes for people reentering the community from correctional facilities (e.g., jails, prisons, juvenile detention) with serious mental illness, substance use disorders, and co-occurring disorders.
- Objective 1: Support cross-system collaboration between criminal and juvenile justice agencies, mental health and substance use agencies, community-based organizations that provide reentry services, and community-based behavioral health providers to improve clinical stabilization pre-trial, during confinement.
- Objective 2: Support continuity of care and recovery during the transition to the community for individuals with serious mental illness, substance use disorders, and cooccurring disorders through a combination of:
- Training and education;
- Modifications to administrative or clinical processes;
- Partnerships among system stakeholders;
- Increased access to evidence-based crisis stabilization, treatment, and recovery support services;
- Strengthened crisis response services in the community
Types of Stages
- Research shows the most promising interventions have common elements at the pre- and postrelease stages of reentry. This program seeks applications that propose to increase the likelihood of positive outcomes through a variety of interventions such as increased and continued access to evidence-based treatment, medication-assisted treatment (MAT), cognitive behavioral therapy, and acceptance and commitment therapy. Examples of elements at each stage include:
- Pre-release stage, elements include: ensuring people are screened, assessed, and identified for program participation and clinical services during pretrial detention or as early as possible upon incarceration and prior to release.
- Post-release elements include: providing participants with discharge planning and wraparound services based on the results of their screening and assessment, and that support continuity of care and long-term recovery in the community.
- Specific services may include: benefit coordination, case management, evidence-based programming, peer support, enrollment in healthcare coverage, relapse prevention, suicide prevention, homelessness prevention, and clinically indicated medications.
Funding Information
- Anticipated Total Amount to Be Awarded Under This Funding Opportunity: $8,250,000
- Anticipated Award Ceiling: Up to $825,000
- Anticipated Number of Awards:
- Category 1 (State and local governments): 5 awards
- Category 2 (Nonprofit organizations and tribal governments): Up to 3 awards
- Category 3 (Tribal governments): Up to 3 awards
- Anticipated Period of Performance Start Date: October 1, 2025
- Anticipated Period of Performance Duration: 36 months
Deliverables
- Deliverables are what the applicant will create or produce under the award. The term “deliverables” as used here refers to discrete products under an award. An award may support activities (e.g., personnel time for award activities) that are part of recipient performance but are not considered deliverables. Award recipients will be expected to develop and submit the deliverables listed below in the course of implementing their proposed project.
- Grantees will deliver:
- An action plan consisting of a program description, program services, and activities. The assigned TTA provider will supply the action plan and assist grantees to complete it within six months of the award.
- A final report that documents the intervention, outcomes, evaluations, and lessons learned.
Expected Outcomes
- Accordingly, BJA encourages applicants to request funding to support a coordinated and comprehensive approach to reduce risk of crisis and improve reentry and recovery outcomes, to include:
- Screening, assessment, and identification for program participation and clinical services (e.g., education, medication, therapy, behavioral counseling) during pretrial detention or as early as possible upon incarceration and prior to release.
- Collaborative case planning that supports delivery of age-appropriate, trauma-informed, and evidence-based treatment, recovery, and transitional programming during incarceration.
- Continued case management that supports wraparound services (e.g., housing, transportation, developing a support network) based on the screening and assessment results and that supports continuity of care (i.e., continued access to treatment and clinically indicated medications), crisis stabilization (e.g., intensive counseling, relapse prevention), peer support services, and long-term recovery in the community.
- Crisis response services in the community to support crisis stabilization during reentry, which may be delivered by the 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline, mobile crisis teams, crisis stabilization and triage centers, peer support specialists, public safety officers, community-based behavioral health providers, or other stakeholders.
- Benefit enrollment (e.g., Medicaid, CHIP, SNAP) and care coordination among government stakeholders, community-based organizations, behavioral health providers such as community mental health centers and certified community behavioral health clinics, hospitals, crisis center, and juvenile assessment centers.
Eligibility Criteria
- The types of entities that are eligible to apply for this funding opportunity are:
- Category 1: State and local governments
- Government Entities
- State governments
- County governments
- City or township governments
- Special district governments
- Category 2: Nonprofit organizations and tribal governments
- Nonprofit Organizations
- Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the Internal Revenue Service (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
- Category 3: Tribal governments
- Government Entities
- Native American Tribal governments (federally recognized)
- Native American Tribal governments (other than federally recognized)
- State Government Entities: For the purposes of this NOFO, “state” means any state of the United States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands.
- Other Units of Local Government: For the purposes of this NOFO, other units of local government include towns, boroughs, parishes, villages, or other general purpose political subdivisions of a state.
- Community-based nonprofit organizations, including culturally specific organizations—those recognized by their communities as being familiar with their culture, language, and background—are eligible and encouraged to apply under Category 2 of this program in partnership with criminal or juvenile justice agencies. All community-based nonprofit applicants must submit memorandums of understanding/agreement (MOUs/MOAs) that clearly describe a collaborative relationship between the applicant and the criminal or juvenile justice agencies that (1) oversee the specific facility or facilities from which the applicant proposes to recruit the target reentering population and/or (2) oversee community corrections (probation and/or parole) for the target population.
- Category 1: State and local governments
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