Deadline: 27-Mar-25
The Bureau of Justice Assistance is inviting applications for its funding opportunity to enhance corrections and community supervision systems and community-based providers’ capacity to address the substance use disorder (SUD) treatment and recovery support needs of people during incarceration and upon reentry.
The goals of this program are to support the implementation or expansion of evidence-based and trauma-informed SUD treatment programming, as well as to promote the implementation of deflection as part of the treatment and recovery safety net, which helps persons in treatment stay in treatment, and prevents further and unnecessary contact with the criminal justice system.
Opportunity Categories
- Category 1: Units of state, local, and tribal governments
- Category 2: Non-profit organizations
Program Goals and Objectives
- Goal 1: Establish or expand programs that improve outcomes for adults with SUDs or cooccurring substance use and mental health disorders who are reentering communities after a period of incarceration.
- Objective 1: Use validated tools to screen all individuals entering a correctional setting for substance use and assess those that screen positive for SUDs and any co-occurring mental health disorder.
- Objective 2: Expand availability of evidence-based SUD treatment services and recovery support services that start pre-release and continue through the reentry process.
- Objective 3: Provide prison-based family SUD treatment programs to incarcerated parents of minor children and pregnant/postpartum women.
- Goal 2: Promote programs that expand treatment and recovery support services and prevent further and unnecessary contact with the criminal justice system.
- Objective 1: Support use of deflection to treatment for individuals in reentry to continue treatment and avoid further returns to the criminal justice system.
- Objective 2: Develop and incorporate practical measures of desistance as a supplemental measure for the success of interventions, including: (1) deceleration, (2) de-escalation, and (3) “reaching a ceiling.”
Funding Information
- Anticipated Total Amount to Be Awarded Under This Funding Opportunity: $5,000,000
- Category 1: Units of state, local, and tribal governments
- Anticipated Number of Awards: 3
- Anticipated Award Ceiling: Up to $833,333
- Anticipated Period of Performance Start Date: October 1, 2025
- Anticipated Period of Performance Duration: 36 months
- Category 2: Nonprofit organizations
- Anticipated Number of Awards: 3
- Anticipated Award Ceiling: Up to $833,333
- Anticipated Period of Performance Start Date: October 1, 2025
- Anticipated Period of Performance Duration: 36 months
- Category 1: Units of state, local, and tribal governments
Eligibility Criteria
- The types of entities that are eligible to apply for this funding opportunity are listed below:
- Government Entities
- State governments
- County governments
- City or township governments
- Special district governments
- Native American Tribal governments (federally recognized)
- Native American Tribal governments (other than federally recognized)
- 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
- Other
- Other units of local government
- Government Entities
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