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The News & Events page provides CJMHSA Reinvestment applicants and grantees with upcoming funding opportunities.

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

NOFO Number: SM-24-007

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

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

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.

FY24 Second Chance Act Pay for Success Program
Opportunity ID: O-BJA-2024-171999
Closing Date: April 30, 2024
Grants.gov Deadline:  April 25, 2024, 8:59 pm Eastern
Application JustGrants Deadline: April 30, 2024, 8:59 pm Eastern

Description:
Under the Pay for Success model, a government entity forms a partnership with a service provider that ties payment for services to reaching agreed-upon goals. This initiative provides funding to state, local, and tribal governments to price, write, negotiate, fund, and manage contracts that pay for reentry services in a way that ensures accountability of the contract service providers, and incentivizes improved performance over time.

With this solicitation, the Bureau of Justice Assistance seeks to provide funding to state, local, and tribal governments to use performance-based or outcomes-based contracting to enhance or implement clinical services and other evidence-based responses to improve reentry, reduce recidivism, and address the treatment and recovery needs of people with mental health, substance use, or co-occurring disorders who are currently involved in the criminal justice system or were formerly involved.

FY24 Connect and Protect: Law Enforcement Behavioral Health Response Program

Opportunity ID: O-BJA-2024-171967
Closing Date: May 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 Improving Adult and Youth Crisis Stabilization and Community Reentry Program
Opportunity ID: O-BJA-2024-171997
Closing Date: April 30, 2024
Grants.gov Deadline: April 25, 2024, 8:59 pm Eastern
Application JustGrants Deadline: April 30, 2024, 8:59 pm Eastern

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 support cross-system collaboration between criminal and juvenile justice agencies, mental health and substance use agencies, community-based organizations that provide reentry services, and community-based behavioral health providers to improve clinical stabilization pretrial, during confinement, and support continuity of care and recovery during the transition to the community through clinical and other evidence-based activities or services for individuals with serious mental illness, substance use disorders, and co-occurring disorders.

The goal of these efforts is to minimize potential for experiencing crisis and improve recovery outcomes for people with serious mental illness, substance use disorders, and co-occurring disorders who are currently involved with the criminal or juvenile justice systems or reentering the community from these systems.

FY24 Second Chance Act Community-based Reentry Program

Opportunity ID:  O-BJA-2024-172024
Closing Date:  May 6, 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.

OJJDP FY24 Second Chance Act Addressing the Needs of Incarcerated Parents and Their Minor Children
Opportunity ID: O-OJJDP-2024-172012
Closing Date: May 6, 2024
Grants.gov Deadline: April 15, 2024, 11:59 pm Eastern
Application JustGrants Deadline: May 6, 2024, 8:59 pm Eastern

Description:
This program supports activities that foster positive family engagement between incarcerated parents and their children within detention and correctional facilities, including juvenile detention and correctional facilities with young parents and implements programs and services that support the children of incarcerated parents to reduce the likelihood of antisocial behaviors and future involvement in the juvenile justice system.

The goal of this program is to develop or expand services within juvenile and adult detention and correctional facilities to improve outcomes for incarcerated parents and their minor children by implementing programs and services to reduce recidivism and support responsible parenting that lead to healthy child development, resiliency, and improved interactions among incarcerated parents and their minor children, and family and community members. 

OJJDP FY24 Second Chance Act Youth Reentry Program
Opportunity ID: O-OJJDP-2024-172017
Closing Date: May 6, 2024
Grants.gov Deadline: April 15, 2024, 11:59 pm Eastern
Application JustGrants Deadline: May 6, 2024, 8:59 pm Eastern

Description:
With this solicitation, OJJDP seeks to address and improve the reentry and recidivism challenges encountered by youth returning to their communities from juvenile residential or correctional facilities.

This solicitation is composed of two grant categories. Applicants must clearly designate the category for which they are applying. The following entities are eligible to apply:

Category 1: Improving Youth ReentryState governments
City or township governments
County governments
Native American Tribal governments (federally recognized)
Category 2: Strengthening Community-Based Youth Reentry ProgramsNative American Tribal organizations (other than federally recognized Tribal governments)
Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
Nonprofits that do not have a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education

FY24 Adult Treatment Court Program

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

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

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.

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