Deadline: 18-Mar-25
This Bureau of Justice Assistance with its Collaborative Crisis Response and Intervention Training Program seeks to support state, local, and tribal law enforcement and correctional entities to develop and implement crisis response training programs.
The Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) encourages applicants to enhance their existing training, focusing on disability awareness and crisis response.
Applicants are also encouraged to develop or expand programs using BJA’s Crisis Response and Intervention Training (CRIT) Curriculum, which emphasizes understanding behavioral health conditions, navigating community resources, improving de-escalation skills and use of trauma-informed best practices for both patrol and facility staff.
Goals
- Goal: This program seeks to enhance responses to and outcomes for people in crisis, and the broader community, who come into contact with law enforcement and the criminal justice system:
- Plan, develop, or enhance training programs for law enforcement or correctional staff to better respond to and address the needs of individuals incrisis, including working with community service providers.
- Evaluate a training program based on BJA’s CRIT Curriculum.
Categories
- Category 1: Training Program for Law Enforcement Officers: will provide funding to law enforcement agencies for training field-based officers. This includes police departments, sheriff’s offices (patrol-based), probation and parole (field-based), and campus-based police.
- Category 2: Training Program for Correctional Officers: will provide funding to correctional agencies for training facility-based officers. This includes probation and parole (facility-based), sheriff’s offices (facility-based), and other officers working inside a correctional facility.
Funding Information
- Anticipated Total Amount to Be Awarded under This Funding Opportunity: $2,000,000.
- Anticipated Award Ceiling: Up to $312,500.
- Anticipated Period of Performance Duration: 36 months.
Deliverables
- Award recipients will be expected to develop and submit the deliverable listed below in the course of implementing their proposed project:
- In collaboration with the training and technical assistance (TTA) provider, develop an implementation plan to guide the development of a new or enhanced training.
Eligibility Criteria
- Government Entities:
- State governments
- County governments
- City or township governments
- Public and state-controlled institutions of higher education
- Native American tribal governments (federally recognized)
- Native American tribal governments (other than federally recognized)
Review Criteria
- Applications that meet the basic minimum requirements will be evaluated for technical merit by peer reviewers based on how the proposed project/program addresses the following criteria:
- Statement of the Problem/Description of the Issue (15%): What critical issue or problem the applicant is proposing to address with this project.
- Project Goals and Objectives (30%): How the proposed project will address the identified need and the purpose of the funding opportunity.
- Project Design and Implementation (25%): The strength of how the applicant will implement activities, including the soundness of the project design and how the activities align to the stated goals and objectives.
- Capabilities and Competencies (20%): The applicant’s administrative and technical capacity to successfully complete this project.
- Budget (10%): Completeness and cost effectiveness.
For more information, visit Grants.gov.