The Indiana Criminal Justice Institute is now accepting proposals for the 2024-2026 Juvenile Behavioral Health Competitive Grant Pilot Program.
Donor Name: Indiana Criminal Justice Institute
State: Indiana
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 04/12/2024
Size of the Grant: Not Available
Grant Duration: 2 Years
Details:
The Juvenile Behavioral Health Competitive Grant Pilot Program Fund was established in Indiana to support jurisdictions, particularly in rural areas, to evaluate a child’s behavioral health needs and divert the child from formal court involvement and out-of-home placement into community or school-based mental health treatment. Grant recipients must use a validated mental health screening tool, and a full mental health assessment tool, if necessary to conduct the following activities: partnering with law enforcement to implement a program to divert a child from formal court proceedings, creating crisis stabilization services and a mobile crisis unit, providing comprehensive case management for a child or family in crisis, identifying strengthening community based intensive treatment and management services, establishing telehealth services and programs, supporting mental health evaluations, which include the use of telehealth services.
Project Period
July 1, 2024 – June 30, 2026
Allowable Activities
Grant recipients shall use a validated mental health screening tool, and a full mental health assessment tool, if necessary, and may use funds to conduct the following activities:
- Partnering with law enforcement to implement a program to divert youth from formal court proceedings.
- Creating stabilization case management for a child or family in crisis.
- Providing comprehensive case management for a child or family in crisis.
- Identifying and strengthening community based intensive treatment and management services, including multisystemic therapy (MST), for youth, regardless of payor source.
- Establishing telehealth services and programs, including providing telehealth equipment and space, training on equipment use, telehealth best practices, legal stipulations, Medicaid/insurance reimbursement processes and establishing broadband internet access, particularly in underserved rural communities.
- Supporting mental health evaluations, which include the use of telehealth services.
Eligibility Criteria
Public entities, state and local government, nonprofit organizations, and nongovernmental organizations who provide services to youth involved in or at risk of being involved in the juvenile justice system may apply for funding. An entity may apply, but will not be eligible for a grant until the entity has prequalified through a series of threshold requirements including:
- A review of the entity’s good standing with Indiana Department of Revenue (DOR), Indiana Department of Workforce Development (DWD), and Secretary of State (SOS).
- Any non-governmental entities must have an operating agreement or memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the referring entity prior to receiving funding.
- Each grant awarded must be overseen by the local regional Justice Reinvestment Advisory Council (JRAC) or another local collaborative body that includes juvenile justice stakeholders and engages in collaborative service planning for the county.
- All grant recipients must agree to report performance measures on a monthly or quarterly basis and are required to provide an aggregate report at the end of the grant cycle.
Eligible Entities
An entity is eligible to receive funding if it furnishes, agrees to furnish, or arranges with a third party to furnish all the following services:
- Management of the grant solicitation with support for rural communities as a required funding priority.
- Services to determine how funding and programming shall be used effectively to benefit the target population.
- Services that develop and/or utilize a local or regional justice reinvestment advisory council or another local collaborative body that includes stakeholders across the juvenile justice system, oversees grants awarded to the county and engages in collaborative service planning for the county. The local collaborative group must include the judicial officer from the court with juvenile jurisdiction or their designee.
For more information, visit ICJI.
