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BJA FY 21 Connect and Protect: Law Enforcement Behavioral Health Responses

ID: O-BJA-2021-21001 • Type: Posted
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Description

The Department of Justice is committed to advancing work that promotes civil rights, increases access to justice, supports crime victims, protects the public from crime and evolving threats, and builds trust between law enforcement and the community. The Connect and Protect: Law Enforcement Behavioral Health Response Program is part of the Justice and Mental Health Collaboration Program(JMHCP). It is designated to support law enforcement-behavioral health cross-system collaboration and to improve public safety responses and outcomes for individuals with mental illness (MI) or co-occurring mental illness and substance abuse (CMISA) who come into contact with the criminal justice system. BJA is seeking applicants to design or enhance a law enforcement-behavioral health response to people with MI and CMISA who come into contact with law enforcement due to their illness. For applicants that are interested in JMHCP that are not law enforcement but are seeking to partner with mental health from another part of the criminal justice system, access the solicitation here.

Overview

Category of Funding
Affordable Care Act
Funding Instruments
Grant
Grant Category
Discretionary
Cost Sharing / Matching Requirement
True
Source
On 5/19/21 the Bureau of Justice Assistance posted grant opportunity O-BJA-2021-21001 for BJA FY 21 Connect and Protect: Law Enforcement Behavioral Health Responses with funding of $20.0 million. The grant will be issued under grant program 16.745 Criminal and Juvenile Justice and Mental Health Collaboration Program. It is expected that 36 total grants will be made.

Timing

Posted Date
May 19, 2021, 12:00 a.m. EDT
Closing Date
July 12, 2021, 12:00 a.m. EDT Past Due
Last Updated
July 11, 2021, 9:52 a.m. EDT
Version
3

Eligibility

Eligible Applicants
County governments
Public and State controlled institutions of higher education
Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized)
State governments
Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification)
City or township governments
Additional Info
Other: Mental health agency The term "mental health agency" means an agency of a state or local government or its contracted agency that is responsible for mental health and co-occurring mental illness and substance abuse services.For 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. Where a state agency is an applicant, this solicitation is intended to support law enforcement and its partnering mental health agency to plan a coordinated response in the field.BJA will only accept applications that demonstrate the proposed program will be administered jointly by an agency with responsibility for criminal or juvenile justice activities, such as law enforcement, and a mental health agency. To advance Executive Order 13929 Safe Policing for Safe Communities, as of October 28, 2020, 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.  For detailed information on this new certification requirement, please visit https://cops.usdoj.gov/SafePolicingEO.All recipients and subrecipients (including any for-profit organization) must forgo any profit or management fee.

Award Sizing

Ceiling
$550,000
Floor
Not Listed
Estimated Program Funding
$20,000,000
Estimated Number of Grants
36

Contacts

Contact
Bureau of Justice Assistance
Contact Email
Email Description
Technical Assistance
Contact Phone
(202) 514-9354

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