The Indiana Criminal Justice Institute (ICJI) is seeking applications for the 2025-2027 Juvenile Behavioral Health Competitive Grant Program.
Donor Name: Indiana Criminal Justice Institute
State: Indiana
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 07/18/2025
Size of the Grant: Not Available
Grant Duration: 2 Years
Details:
The Juvenile Behavioral Health Competitive Grant Program is designed 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 October 1, 2025 – September 30, 2027.
Allowable Activities
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.
Allowable Costs
Personnel, employee benefits, and cost of supplies and travel to perform the following activities are allowable costs. Overtime for grant-funded staff is an allowable cost, but to claim the increased rate, there must be a separate line item in the budget that includes the overtime rate of pay.
- Costs for program materials such as pamphlets, handouts, booklets, or brochures.
- Planning activities for the development of a collaborative plan or the implementation of selected programs.
- Linguistically appropriate services, such as interpreters and/or having documents translated into other languages.
- Technical assistance with respect to adherence to or application of model programs.
- Placement advocacy to assist in locating and securing safe alternatives to detention or out-of-home placement.
- Medical advocacy, including referrals for mental healthcare services, and funding for any mental healthcare services, including services delivered via telehealth, and related out-of-pocket costs that would otherwise be the responsibility of the youth or family.
- Counseling and support services, and childcare services for youth and families who are engaged in behavioral health care programs.
Eligibility Criteria
Public entities, units of 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.
For more information, visit ICJI.
