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DCF CJMHSA Reinvestment Grant RFA Announcement

The Florida Department of Children and Families released DCF RFA 2324 011 for a 1-year planning grant or 3-year implementation and expansion grant under the Criminal Justice, Mental Health, and Substance Abuse Reinvestment Grant Program.     

NEW DUE DATES:

Notice of Intent to Submit an application is February 7, 2024, at 2 p.m. EST. 

Applications are due March 25, 2024, at 2 p.m. EST.

All questions regarding this opportunity must be addressed to the contacts identified in Section 3.1 of the RFA (listed below).

Please direct all questions to:

Name: Alicia Reifinger

Email: alicia.reifinger@myflfamilies.com

Address: Via e-mail only, application due 2/26/24, 2pm Tallahassee, FL 32303

Community Programs for Outreach and Intervention with Youth and Young Adults at Clinical High Risk for Psychosis

NOFO Number: SM-24-007

Posted on Grants.gov: Wednesday, February 07, 2024

Application Due Date: Monday, April 08, 2024

Description: 

The purpose of this program is to provide trauma-informed, evidence-based interventions to youth and young adults (up to 25 years of age) who are at clinical high risk for psychosis. Recipients will be expected to use evidence-based interventions to: (1) improve symptomatic and behavioral functioning; (2) enable youth and young adults to resume age-appropriate social, academic, and/or vocational activities; (3) delay or prevent the onset of psychosis; and (4) minimize the duration of untreated psychosis for those who develop psychotic symptoms.

Eligibility:

Eligibility is statutorily limited to public entities, which includes State governments and territories, governmental units within political subdivisions of a state (e.g., county, city, town), and Federally recognized American Indian/Alaska Native tribes and tribal organizations.

First Responders – Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act

NOFO Number: TI-24-006

Posted on Grants.gov: Wednesday, February 14, 2024

Application Due Date: Monday, April 15, 2024

Description: 

The purpose of this program is to provide resources to support first responders and members of other key community sectors on training, administering, and distributing naloxone and other Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-approved overdose reversal medications or devices. Recipients will be expected to establish processes, protocols, and mechanisms for warm hand-off referrals to appropriate treatment, recovery, harm reduction, and other psychosocial resource support services. Recipients will also provide safety education around fentanyl, synthetic opioids, and other drug trends associated with overdoses.

Eligibility: 

Eligibility for this program is statutorily limited to states, local governmental entities, and American Indian/Alaska Native (AI/AN) tribes and tribal organizations.

Assisted Outpatient Treatment Program for Individuals with Serious Mental Illness 

NOFO Number: SM-24-006

Posted on Grants.gov: Monday, February 26, 2024

Application Due Date: Friday, April 26, 2024

Description: The purpose of this program is to implement Assisted Outpatient Treatment (AOT) program in communities to support adults with serious mental illness (SMI) who meet state-specific criteria for AOT. Recipients are expected to implement a multi-disciplinary AOT program, working with courts, community partners, and other entities to support community-based treatment for adults with SMI who meet criteria for AOT.

Eligibility: Eligible entities are counties, cities, mental health systems (including mental health authorities), mental health courts, or any other entities with authority under the law of the State in which the applicant is located to implement, monitor, and oversee assisted outpatient programs.

Grants to Expand Substance Use Disorder Treatment Capacity in Adult and Family Treatment Drug Courts

NOFO Number: TI-24-004

Posted on Grants.gov: Tuesday, January 30, 2024

Application Due Date: Monday, April 01, 2024

Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA) Number: 93.243

Intergovernmental Review (E.O. 12372): Applicants must comply with E.O. 12372 if their state(s) participates. Review process recommendations from the State Single Point of Contact (SPOC) are due no later than 60 days after application deadline.

Public Health System Impact Statement (PHSIS) / Single State Agency Coordination: Applicants must send the PHSIS to appropriate State and local health agencies by application deadline. Comments from Single State Agency are due no later than 60 days after application deadline.

Description:The purpose of this program is to expand substance use disorder (SUD) treatment and recovery support services in existing drug courts. The program recognizes the need for treatment instead of incarceration for individuals with SUDs. Recipients are expected to provide prevention, harm reduction, treatment, and recovery services for individuals with SUD involved with the courts. With this program, SAMHSA aims to improve abstinence from substance use, housing stability, employment status, social connectedness, health/behavioral/social consequences, and reduce criminal justice involvement.

Eligibility: Eligible applicants are States and Territories, including the District of Columbia, political subdivisions of States, drug courts, Indian tribes, or tribal organizations (as such terms are defined in Section 5304 of Title 25), health facilities, or programs operated by or in accordance with a contract or award with the Indian Health Service, or other public or private nonprofit entities.

FY24 Connect and Protect: Law Enforcement Behavioral Health Response Program

Opportunity ID: O-BJA-2024-171967
Closing Date: May 6, 2024
Posting Date:  February 6, 2024

Description:
This program supports law enforcement–behavioral health cross-system collaboration to improve public health and public safety by improving responses to and outcomes for individuals with mental health disorders (MHDs) or co-occurring mental health and substance use disorders (MHSUDs). Through this opportunity, the Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) provides grant funding to help entities prepare, create, or expand comprehensive plans and then implement these collaborative projects to target people who qualify.

Please note that the Connect and Protect Program is under the umbrella of BJA's Justice and Mental Health Collaboration Program (JMHCP). Per the authorizing statute, JMHCP requires a two-phase process consisting of planning and then implementation activities during which grantees will develop a coordinated approach to implementing or enhancing services for individuals with MHDs or MHSUDs who come in contact with law enforcement. Applicants must submit one application that proposes detailed activities for both a planning phase and an implementation phase.

FY24 Second Chance Act Community-based Reentry Program

Opportunity ID:  O-BJA-2024-172024
Closing Date:  May 6, 2024
Posting Date:  March 7, 2024

Description:
The Second Chance Act Community-based Reentry Program supports organizations and tribal governments providing comprehensive reentry services to individuals who have been incarcerated. With this solicitation, the Bureau of Justice Assistance seeks applications for funding from community-based non-profit organizations and federally recognized tribal governments to enhance or implement evidence-based responses to improve reentry, reduce recidivism, and support successful transitional planning for individuals who are currently, or were formerly, involved in the criminal justice system.

FY24 Adult Treatment Court Program

Opportunity ID: O-BJA-2024-171972
Closing Date:  May 9, 2024
Posting Date:  February 7, 2024

Description:
The purpose of the Adult Treatment Court Program is to reduce the misuse of opioids, stimulants, and other substances by people involved in the criminal justice system.

With this solicitation, the Bureau of Justice Assistance seeks to provide financial and technical assistance to states, state courts, local courts, units of local government, and federally recognized Indian tribal governments to plan, implement, and enhance the operations of adult treatment courts. This includes management and service coordination for treatment court participants, fidelity to the adult treatment court model, and recovery support services.

FY24 Improving Substance Use Disorder Treatment and Recovery Outcomes for Adults in Reentry

Opportunity ID:  O-BJA-2024-172030
Closing Date:  May 13, 2024
Posting Date:  March 11, 2024

Description:
With this solicitation, the Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) seeks to support state, local, and tribal governments, as well as community-based nonprofit organizations, to establish, expand, or improve treatment and recovery support services for people with substance use disorders during their incarceration and upon reentry into the community. This program seeks to reduce crime and recidivism, expand access to evidence-based treatment, and promote long-term recovery for people leaving incarceration, and, in the process, improve public safety and public health.

FY24 Justice and Mental Health Collaboration Program

Opportunity ID:  O-BJA-2024-171978
Closing Date:  May 14, 2024
Posting Date: February 14, 2024

Description:
With this solicitation, the Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) seeks applications for funding programs that support cross-system collaboration to improve public safety responses and outcomes for individuals with mental health disorders (MHDs) or co-occurring mental health and substance use disorders (MHSUDs). BJA provides grant funding to help organizations prepare, create, or expand comprehensive plans and then implement these collaborative projects to target people who qualify.

For the purposes of the FY24 solicitation, the program will focus on pretrial, prosecution, courts, probation/parole, and addressing the needs directly related to the criminal activity of adults with mental health conditions, living in homelessness or marginalized communities with minimal access to treatment, needing wrap around services, in the criminal justice system and leaving incarceration.

More SAMHSA funding opportunities can be found here.

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