The Indiana Criminal Justice Institute (ICJI) is now accepting applications for the 2025-2027 Juvenile Behavioral Health Competitive Grant Pilot Program.
Donor Name: Indiana Criminal Justice Institute
State: Indiana
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 11/15/2024
Size of the Grant: Not Available
Grant Duration: 2 Years
Details:
The Juvenile Behavioral Health Competitive Grant Pilot Program Fund was established in Indiana Code § 31-40- 6-5 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 Period
The award period for this grant shall be April 1, 2025 – March 31, 2027. Projects should begin on April 1, 2025, and must be in operation no later than sixty (60) days after this date. Failure to have the funded project operational within sixty (60) days from April 1, 2025, may result in termination of the grant and the de-obligation of all awarded funds.
Allowable Costs
The following budget items listed below are ineligible and will not be supported by this program’s funding:
- Direct financial assistance to a client such as cash.
- Supplanting existing positions or offsetting existing expenses of the recipient.
- Lobbying.
- Fundraising (including financial campaigns, endowment drives, solicitation of gifts and bequests, and similar expenses incurred solely to raise capital or obtain contributions) and time spent procuring funding including completing federal and state funding applications.
- Purchase of real estate.
- Construction and physical modification to buildings, including minor renovations (such as painting or carpeting).
- Purchase of vehicles.
- Indirect cost rate and/or de minimis rate.
Allowable Activities
Allowable activities and costs are those that support the operations and services delivered to youth involved in or youth to be diverted from the juvenile justice system. 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 (IC § 25-1-9.5-6) and programs to allow youth involved in services to take advantage of remote mental health services. Any providers used must comply with all requirements of IC § 12-23-1-6 and Indiana Administrative Code 440 IAC 4.4-2-1. All addiction treatment services rendered on a more than incidental basis must be done by a provider certified by the Indiana Family and Social Services Administration; Division of Mental Health and Addiction.
- Supporting mental health evaluations, which include the use of telehealth services (IC § 25-1-9.5-6).
- Planning sessions and costs to develop juvenile behavioral health pilot programs, including meetings with a local collaborative body that includes juvenile justice stakeholders.
- Activities that support operations and service delivery of juvenile behavioral health pilot programs with a preference for regional models.
- Evidence based juvenile behavioral health pilot projects.
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. Recipients will be required to maintain case-level data for the purposes of research and evaluation. The required performance measures are outlined in the Youth Justice Oversight Committee’s Grant Programs Report.
For more information, visit ICJI.
