Through this opportunity, the Bureau of Justice Assistance seeks applications for funding to state, local, and tribal governments, as well as community-based nonprofit organizations and eligible behavioral health providers, to coordinate and provide comprehensive treatment, recovery, and other supportive reentry services to people experiencing mental health, substance use, or co-occurring disorders who are currently involved in the criminal justice system or were formerly involved.

There are two solicitation categories under this program:

1. Adult and Juvenile Crisis Stabilization and Community Reentry Programs — State and Local Governments
2. Adult and Juvenile Crisis Stabilization and Community Reentry Programs — Nonprofit Organizations and Tribal Governments

Goals, Objectives, and Deliverables

Goals

• Provide clinical and recovery support services that support treatment, suicide prevention, and continuity of recovery in the community for people with mental health, substance use, or co-occurring disorders upon their release from a correctional facility.

Objectives

• Provide training and education for criminal and juvenile justice agencies, mental health and substance use agencies, and community-based behavioral health providers on interventions that support:
  • Best practices diversion models
  • Crisis response services
  • Engagement in recovery, treatment, and other support services
  • Access to medication while incarcerated and continuity of care during reentry into the community
• Confirmation of memoranda of understanding/agreements (MOUs/MOAs) and a description of partnerships with one or more correctional agencies, if the correctional agency is not the lead applicant.
• Make sure that individuals with serious mental illness are given timely access to appropriate recovery supports that may include peer support services, medication management (including long-acting injectable medications where clinically appropriate), case management, and psycho-social therapies

Deliverables

• An action plan informed by and based on data developed with input from BJA and the assigned technical assistance provider and submitted within 6 months of receiving final budget approval.
• A final report at the end of the project period.

For more information, see the most recent BJA grant solicitation and materials.