The Kevin and Avonte Program: Reducing Injury and Death of Missing Individuals with Dementia and Developmental Disabilities seeks to support public safety efforts to reduce deaths and injuries of people living with forms of dementia or developmental disabilities who wander from safe places.
Donor Name: Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA)
State: All States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 02/20/2026
Size of the Grant: $100,000 to $500,000
Grant Duration: 3 Years
Details:
The grant program will fund the purchase of tracking technology used to find vulnerable missing persons. It also funds wandering prevention, intervention, and rescue programs. The goal of this grant program is to reduce deaths and injuries with solutions that minimize restrictive interventions, provide a direct link to individuals and families, and impose limits only when essential for a person’s safety and well-being.
Goals and Objectives
Goal: Reduce the number of deaths and injuries of people living with forms of dementia or developmental disabilities who wander from safe places because of their condition.
- Objective 1: Reduce wandering incidents and associated injuries through implementation of local programs.
- Objective 2: Implement tracking technology that enables the safe recovery of individuals who wander, with a documented increase in successful rescue rates within six months of technology deployment.
- Objective 3: Enhance collaboration and training, leading to improved response times and outcomes for at-risk individuals.
- Objective 4: Develop and implement public education and awareness campaigns that teach families, caregivers, teachers, and communities about the risks of wandering and effective strategies to keep individuals with forms of dementia or developmental disabilities safe
Funding Information
- Total Amount to Be Awarded Under This Funding Opportunity: $2,438,604
- Anticipated Award: Up to $150,000
Project Period
36 months.
Eligibility Criteria
The following types of entities are eligible to apply for this funding opportunity:
- Government Entities
- State governments
- County governments
- City or township governments
- Special district governments
- Native American tribal governments (federally recognized)
- Educational Organizations
- Public and state-controlled institutions of higher education
- Private institutions of higher education
- Nonprofit Organizations
- Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the Internal Revenue Service (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
- Other
- Health care agencies
- Other units of local government
State Government Entities: For the purposes of this NOFO, “state” means any state of the United States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands.
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