The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), Office of Justice Programs (OJP), Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) seeks applications for funding to establish, expand, or improve treatment and recovery support services for people with substance use disorders during their incarceration and upon reentry into the community.
Donor Name: Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA)
State: All States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 03/28/2023
Size of the Grant: $1,125,000
Grant Duration: 48 months
Details:
This program furthers the DOJ’s mission by seeking to reduce crime and recidivism, expand access to evidence-based treatment, and promote long-term recovery for people leaving incarceration.
With this program, BJA supports states, units of local government, tribal governments, and nonprofit organizations to establish, expand, or improve evidence-based, culturally relevant programs to address the substance use disorder (SUD) treatment and recovery support needs of people, including parents of minor children and pregnant/postpartum women, during incarceration and reentry in an effort to reduce recidivism, expand access to evidence-based treatment, promote long-term recovery, and, in the process, improve public safety and public health.
BJA also supports efforts to address the overdose crisis—in confinement and upon reentry—and increase the provision of evidence-based SUD treatment, including medication-assisted treatment (MAT), which is the which is the use of medications in combination with counseling and behavioral therapies.
The Improving Substance Use Disorder Treatment and Recovery Outcomes for Adults in Reentry Program is part of the Second Chance Act suite of program in FY 2023. This year, a range of programs for states, local government units, tribal governments, and nonprofit organizations are being competed, including:
- Community Reentry
- Crisis Stabilization and Community Reentry
- Improving Adult Reentry, Education, and Employment Outcomes
- Improving Substance Use Disorder Treatment and Recovery Outcomes for Adults in Reentry
- Pay for Success
- Smart Supervision Swift, Certain, and Fair Supervision and HOPE Institute
Goals
To establish or expand system approaches that improve outcomes for adults with SUDs who are reentering communities following a period of incarceration.
Objectives
An applicant should address all the objectives that are relevant to their proposed program/project in the Goals, Objectives, Deliverables and Timeline web-based form.
The objectives of this program are to:
- Use validated screening tools to screen all individuals entering a corrections setting for substance use and assess those that screen positive for SUDs.
- Provide evidence-based SUD treatment services to individuals in prisons and jails.
- Provide prison-based family SUD treatment programs to incarcerated parents of minor children and pregnant/postpartum women.
- Provide recovery support services that start pre-release and continue through the reentry process
Priority Areas
The Department of Justice is committed to advancing work that promotes civil rights and racial equity, increases access to justice, supports crime victims and individuals impacted by the justice system, strengthens community safety and protects the public from crime and evolving threats, and builds trust between law enforcement and the community.
- Priority Considerations Supporting Executive Order 13985, Advancing Racial Equity and Support for Underserved Communities Through the Federal Government
Funding Information
- Category 1 Units of state, local, and tribal governments $1,125,000
- Category 2Nonprofit organizations $1,125,000
Period of Performance Duration (Months)
48
Eligibility Information
- State governments
- Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
- Native American tribal organizations (other than Federally recognized tribal governments)
- City or township governments
- Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized)
- County governments
- Special district governments
For more information, visit Grants.gov.
