The Juvenile Behavioral Health Competitive Grant Pilot 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.
Donor Name: Indiana Criminal Justice Institute
State: Indiana
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 04/17/2025
Size of the Grant: Not Available
Grant Duration: 2 Years
Details:
The Juvenile Behavioral Health Competitive Grant Pilot Program Fund aims 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: (1) partnering with law enforcement to implement a program to divert a child from formal court proceedings, (2) creating crisis stabilization services and a mobile crisis unit, (3) providing comprehensive case management for a child or family in crisis, (4) identifying strengthening community based intensive treatment and management services, (5) establishing telehealth services and programs, (6) supporting mental health evaluations, which include the use of telehealth services.
Grant Period
The award period for this grant shall be July 1, 2025 – June 30, 2027.
Allowable Activities and Costs
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 and programs to allow youth involved in services to take advantage of remote mental health services. 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.
- 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, 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.
- 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:
- 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 and strengthening community based intensive treatment and management services.
- Establishing telehealth services.
- Supporting mental health evaluations, which include the use of telehealth services.
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