Deadline: 6-Jul-21
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), Office of Justice Programs (OJP), Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) is seeking applications for the Collaborative Crisis Response Training Program.
Goal
- To support crisis response training for state, local, and tribal law enforcement and correctional entities that will ensure organizational planning, strategically deploy those who have been trained, and ensure sustained best practices.
Objectives
BJA is seeking applicants that will:
- Perform a problem analysis, in collaboration with local stakeholders and agency leadership, using relevant data. Applicants will use this analysis to understand the training, partnership, resource, and deployment needs of the applicant entity and its community.
- Develop a comprehensive training plan that anticipates future deployment models which will determine the training needs of the applicant entity.
- Create, design, and implement a training program. BJA encourages using BJA’s Crisis Response and Intervention Training Program curriculum which includes best practices from Memphis Model Crisis Intervention Teams training, Disability Response, Co-Responder, Behavioral Health Mobile Response, Case Management, and other response models.
- Seek and deploy other best practice training for officers to educate them on behavioral heatlh conditions and disabilities.
- Define and track process measures as well as short-term and long-term program outcome measures. Program measures may include increased knowledge, skills, improved responses, and safer encounters.
- Employ data-driven practices (e.g., report program performance to stakeholders) to improve program implementation.
- Build long-term sustainment through a train-the-trainer component.
- Determine who are the best qualified officers to train and recruit them.
- Improve officer and citizen safety through increased community collaboration, communication, and deployment strategies.
- Build positive community relations and trust through increased outreach to citizens, families, advocates, and stakeholders.
- Enhance officer knowledge of mental health, behavioral health, reentry and wrap around services, disability resources, and diversion opportunities through the delivery of crisis response training which includes service partners and associated community agencies as co-trainers.
- Engage BJA’s National Law Enforcement Mental Health Learning Site Program as part of an ongoing training strategy.
- As needed, provide information to and actively collaborate with BJA and BJA‘s partners on program process and outcome evaluation efforts.
Funding Information
- Anticipated Total Amount to be Awarded Under Solicitation: $6,900,000.00
- Anticipated Maximum Dollar Amount of Awards: $150,000.00
- Anticipated Number of Awards: 46
- Period of Performance Start Date: 10/1/21 12:00 AM
- Period of Performance Duration (Months): 36
Eligibility Criteria
- City or township governments, County governments, Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized), Native American tribal organizations (other than Federally recognized tribal governments), State governments, Other
- For the purposes of this solicitation, “state” means any state of the United States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, American Samoa, Guam, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands.
- To advance Executive Order Safe Policing for Safe Communities, the Attorney General determined that all state, local, and university or college law enforcement agencies must be certified by an approved independent credentialing body or have started the certification process to be allocated FY 2021 DOJ discretionary grant funding, as either a recipient or a subrecipient.
- All recipients and subrecipients (including any for-profit organization) must forgo any profit or management fee .
For more information, visit https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=333724
