The Indiana Criminal Justice Institute (ICJI) is now accepting applications for the 2024-2025 Juvenile Behavioral Health Competitive Grant Pilot Program.
Donor Name: Indiana Criminal Justice Institute
State: Indiana
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 11/20/2023
Grant Duration: 2 years
Details:
The Juvenile Behavioral Health Competitive Grant Pilot Program Fund was established 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. Applicants are required to clearly define the target population for each program for which funding is being requested. The target population and program description must align with the above-stated purpose. Applicants must clearly state eligibility criteria for each program for which funding is requested.
Project Period
January 1, 2024 – December 31, 2025
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
Eligible entity types include:
- Public entities
- Nonprofit organizations
- Nongovernmental organizations who provide mental and/or behavioral health services to youth involved in or at risk of being involved in the juvenile justice system.
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 a Memorandum of Agreement with the court(s) of juvenile jurisdiction in the counties that the program will serve prior to receiving funding.
- Each grant awarded will be overseen by the local regional justice reinvestment council 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 quarterly basis and are required to provide an aggregate, annual report at the end of the grant cycle. Recipients will be required to maintain case-level data for the purposes of research and evaluation.
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.
