The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), Office of Justice Programs (OJP), Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) seeks applications for funding to plan, implement, and enhance substance use treatment courts, including service coordination, management of treatment court participants, fidelity to the model, and recovery support services.
Donor Name: Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA)
State: All States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 04/11/2023
Size of the Grant: $2,500,000
Grant Duration: 48 months
Details:
With this solicitation, BJA seeks to provide financial and technical assistance to states, state courts, local courts, units of local government, and federally recognized Indian tribal governments to plan, implement, and enhance the operations of adult treatment courts. Adult treatment courts effectively integrate evidence-based substance use disorder treatment, mandatory drug testing, incentives and sanctions, and transitional services in judicially supervised criminal court settings that have jurisdiction over persons with substance use disorder treatment needs in order to reduce recidivism, increase access to treatment and recovery support, and prevent overdose.
Goals
To provide adult treatment courts and professionals in the criminal justice system with the resources needed to plan, implement, enhance, and sustain evidence-based treatment court programs for individuals with nonviolent charges and convictions as specified above with substance use disorders who are involved in the criminal justice system.
To accomplish this goal, BJA recognizes that sites may need assistance to evaluate their needs, identify the target population, ensure equity and inclusion in programming, track program implementation, and to map critical resources in the community. To that end, BJA encourages the exploration of partnerships with research experts to facilitate these evaluation and assessment activities.
Objectives
An applicant should address all the objectives listed below in the Goals, Objectives, Deliverables, and Timeline web-based form.
- Ensure treatment court practitioners have the tools to effectively provide judicial and community supervision, mandatory and random drug testing, substance use and mental health disorder treatment, and appropriate incentives and sanctions.
- Utilize evidence-based practices and principles that incorporate NADCP’s 10 Best Practice Standards and other relevant research.
- Build and maximize capacity to ensure all potential participants are identified and assessed for risk and need using a validated risk and clinical assessment tool to determine their eligibility
- Ensure that all individuals eligible for the treatment court program have equivalent access as measured by the collection and examination of program data.
- Enhance the provision of recovery support services, including transitional recovery housing assistance and peer and family support, to support ongoing recovery.
- Ensure treatment court participants have access to all types of FDA-approved medications to treatment substance use disorders, and include training on overdose prevention.
- Enhance collaboration between states and local and/or tribal jurisdictions to support the operations and enhancements of adult treatment court activities.
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
- Applications that propose project(s) that are designed to promote racial equity and the removal of barriers to access and opportunity for communities that have been historically underserved, marginalized, and adversely affected by inequality.
- Applicants that demonstrate that their capabilities and competencies for implementing their proposed project(s) are enhanced because they (or at least one proposed subrecipient that will receive at least 40% of the requested award funding, as demonstrated in the Budget Web-Based Form) identify as a culturally specific organization
The FY 2023 ATC Discretionary Grant Program solicitation offers the following three grant categories:
Category1 Planning and Implementation
- Planning and Implementation grants are available to eligible jurisdictions ready to commit to a 6- month planning phase followed by an implementation phase for an evidence-based adult treatment court. The ATC must have core capacity to provide critical treatment services, case management and coordination, judicial supervision, sanctions and incentive services, and other key services such as transitional housing, relapse prevention, employment, and peer recovery support to reduce recidivism.
- Note: The 6-month planning phase requires grantees to participate in the BJA-sponsored, free foundational training for adult drug courts, if they did not receive it in the past 12 months. This foundational training provides court teams with the skills necessary to build a program that integrates court and treatment functions and adheres to best practice standards.
Category 2 Enhancement
- Enhancement grants are available to eligible jurisdictions with an operational adult treatment court. Funding may be used to assist a jurisdiction to scale up its existing court program’s capacity; provide access to or enhance treatment capacity or other critical support services; enhance court operations; expand or enhance court services; build or enhance collection and use of key drug operation and outcome data; or improve the quality and/or intensity of services based on needs assessments.
- Note: It is recommended that an eligible entity (i.e., unit of local government or county) applying to Category 1 or Category 2 on behalf of an adult treatment court attach a fiscal agent memorandum of understanding (MOU).
Category 3 Statewide
State applicants may apply for funding to improve, enhance, or expand adult treatment court services statewide. Statewide activities may include:
- Scaling up an ATC program’s capacity.
- Helping a local/rural jurisdiction to launch a new ATC as a grant subrecipient.
- Expanding treatment and services.
- Conducting an audit of the practice and the technical assistance for adherence to the key components and best practices.
- Data collection and analysis to assess the practice and track recidivism and participant outcomes.
- Delivering training and technical assistance (TTA).
- Supporting a treatment court alumni network and/or peer recovery programs to serve treatment court participants.
- Supporting the staff needed to expand services statewide
Funding Information
Anticipated Maximum Dollar Amount of Awards: $2,500,000
Period of Performance Duration
(Months): 48
Eligible Applicants
- County governments
- City or township governments
- Public housing authorities/Indian housing authorities
- State governments
- Special district governments
- Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized)
Additional Information on Eligibility
Public or private entities acting on behalf of a single treatment court through agreement with state, city, township, county, or tribal governments.
For more information, visit Grants.gov.
