Deadline: 1-Sep-21
Jackson County COMBAT is accepting applications for 2022 funding in three separate categories:
- Prevention (Violence and Drug Abuse);
- Substance Use Disorder Treatment;
- Law Enforcement School-Based Initiatives.
Objectives
- Prevention (Violence and Drug Abuse): Jackson County COMBAT is seeking to fund violence and substance abuse prevention programs that deliver trauma-informed and/or trauma-sensitive services to Jackson County residents.
- Substance Use Disorder Treatment:
- The objectives of the COMBAT Treatment services are to provide treatment with an overreaching goal of achieving the following general outcomes for those who use drugs:
- Counseling and/or medical-assisted programs leading to long-term recovery from drug use;
- Retention in treatment for a period of time that maximizes treatment effects;
- Improved employment and/or educational status;
- Elimination of criminal behavior;
- Improved family relationships and living environment; and
- Creation or enhancement of a social support system that is conducive to recovery;
- Proposals must be evidence-based or research-based and provide one or more services:
- Provide detoxification, residential, community based primary treatment, intensive outpatient, and supported recovery. COMBAT is also seeking additional services specifically for residential support (room and board).
- Provide specialized programs and/or services (including residential treatment beds) for Jackson County Drug Court. Collaborative programs that provide room and board by one agency and treatment at a partnering agency are encouraged. Agencies must provide signed letters of participation.
- Programs that specifically target inmates at the Jackson County Detention Center to assist clients in living drug-free lives after leaving incarceration, regardless of length of sentence. These programs may also be supportive of Drug Court diversion opportunities for Drug Court clients who are incarcerated.
- The objectives of the COMBAT Treatment services are to provide treatment with an overreaching goal of achieving the following general outcomes for those who use drugs:
- Law Enforcement School-Based Initiatives: Law Enforcement has the opportunity to establish new innovated anti-drug and anti-violence prevention programs within the schools other than DARE. The requirements are that the program must be either evidence-based or research-based. The prevention programs must be developed in cooperation and collaboration with the school district.
Eligibility Criteria
- Any organization requesting COMBAT funding must have an office in Jackson County and provide services to Jackson County residents in Jackson County.
- Applicant organizations must provide a copy of a letter from the Internal Revenue Service indicating current 501.c.3 tax-exempt status.
- An applying agency must be in existence for more than two years.
- COMBAT funding is provided on a costs reimbursement basis, available upon submission of receipts and proof of payment at the end of each month.
- COMBAT funds cannot be used for capital purchases.
- All persons implementing COMBAT funded programming must have training in Trauma-Informed Care.
- With very few exceptions that must be justified by clear evidence of large scale impact and effectiveness in preventing or reducing substance abuse or violence, programs that have been funded by COMBAT for more than five (5) years will not be funded without inclusion of new/updated/enhanced strategies that reflect the most current best practices. Long standing programs must justify continued use of strategies that have been used for many years, and prove that the contribution of these programs to reducing societal substance abuse and violence is actually worth their continuation.
For more information, visit https://www.jacksoncountycombat.com/571/2022-Funding-Applications
