The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), Office of Justice Programs (OJP), and Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) is seeking applications for the Collaborative Crisis Response and Intervention Training Program.
Donor Name: Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA)
State: All States
County: All Counties
U.S. Territories: American Samoa, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 06/01/2022
Size of the Grant: $250,000
Grant Duration: 3 years
Details:
Through this opportunity, the Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) seeks applications for funding support to law enforcement on how to effectively partner with mental health, substance use disorder, and community service agencies to promote public safety and ensure appropriate responses to individuals who have behavioral health conditions, intellectual disabilities, developmental disabilities, or physical disabilities (disabilities). Note: BJA uses the term “behavioral health” to include mental health, substance use disorder, and co-occurring mental health and substance use disorders.
This program supports the development of model responses that incorporate BJA’s Crisis Response and Intervention Training Program Curriculum and additional best practices designed to increase understanding of behavioral health conditions and disabilities, develop empathy, navigate and refer to community resources, and increase de-escalation skills within the applicant organization and among staff, and include the community. Applicants are encouraged to use BJA’s curriculum as the foundation of their training efforts.
Goals
This program seeks applications from states, local governments, and Indian tribes to:
- Plan, develop, and deploy a best practice crisis response and intervention training program for officers that includes participation and input from their community, behavioral health, and other social service providers, as appropriate.
- Develop a strategy for deploying officers trained in delivering appropriate responses during interactions with individuals experiencing a behavioral health crisis or interactions with individuals who have disabilities.
- Evaluate, improve, and sustain community engagement and a best practice program.
Objectives
Category 1: Training Program for Law Enforcement Officers, Law Enforcement Agencies, and Sheriff’s Departments (Deputies)
- Perform a problem analysis of training and deployment policies and practices, in collaboration with local stakeholders and agency leadership, using relevant data. Applicants will use this analysis to understand the training, partnership, resource, and deployment needs of both it and the community.
- Develop a comprehensive training plan to deploy a best practice training that anticipates the applicant’s future training needs.
- Create, design, and implement a training program. BJA encourages using BJA’s Crisis Response and Intervention Training Program Curriculum, based on the Memphis Model Crisis Intervention Team’s training that includes disability response. A matrix of the modules can be found by visiting AT Training Matrix.pdf (theiacp.org).
- Other best-practice response models such as Co-Responder, Behavioral Health Mobile Response, Case Management, and 911 dispatch models may be planned and implemented using BJA’s curriculum.
- Seek and deploy other best practice training for officers to educate them on behavioral health conditions and disabilities.
- Define and track process measures as well as short-term and long-term program outcome measures. Program measures may include increased knowledge, skills, improved responses, and safer encounters.
- Use the Police Mental Health Collaboration Toolkit to employ data-driven practices (e.g., report program performance to stakeholders) to improve the program’s implementation.
- Build long-term sustainment through other, nonfederal funding mechanisms and a train-the-trainer component.
- Determine who are the best-qualified officers to train and recruit their fellow officers.
- Improve officer and citizen safety through increased community collaboration, communication, and deployment strategies.
- Build positive community relations and trust through increased outreach to citizens, families, advocates, and stakeholders.
- Enhance officer knowledge of behavioral health, reentry and wraparound services, disability resources, and diversion opportunities through the delivery of crisis response training which includes service partners and associated community agencies as co-trainers.
- As needed, provide information to and actively collaborate with BJA and BJA‘s partners on program process and outcome evaluation efforts.
Category 2: Training Program for Correctional Officers, Probation, and Parole, and Sheriff’s Departments (Jails)
- Perform a problem analysis of training and deployment policies and practices, in collaboration with local stakeholders and agency leadership, using relevant data. The applicant will use this analysis to understand the training, partnership, resource, and deployment needs of both it and its community.
- Develop a comprehensive training plan that anticipates future deployment models which will determine the training needs of the applicant entity.
- Create, design, and implement a training program. BJA encourages using BJA’s Crisis Response and Intervention Training Program Curriculum which includes best practices from the Memphis Model Crisis Intervention Teams training, Disability Response, Co-Responder, Behavioral Health Mobile Response, Case Management, and other response models. A matrix of the modules can be found by visiting AT Training Matrix.pdf (theiacp.org). A source for community supervision models is Forensic Assertive Community Treatment (FACT) and other service model approaches.
- Seek and deploy other best practice training, such as management of withdrawal for individuals with substance use disorders, for officers to educate them on behavioral health conditions and disabilities, pharmacotherapy in corrections, recognizing and mitigating trauma, and impacts of confinement on behavioral health.
- Define and track process measures as well as short-term and long-term program outcome measures. Program measures may include increased knowledge, skills, improved responses, and safer encounters.
- Build long-term sustainment through other, nonfederal funding mechanisms and a train-the-trainer component.
- Determine who are the best-qualified officers to train and recruit.
- Improve officer and detainee/inmate safety through increased collaboration, communication, and deployment strategies and reduced cell extractions and crises resulting in restrictive housing.
- Build positive community relations and trust through increased outreach to citizens, families, advocates, and stakeholders.
- As needed, provide information to and actively collaborate with BJA and BJA‘s partners on program process and outcome evaluation efforts.
Funding Information
- Category 1: Training Program for Law Enforcement Officers, Law Enforcement Agencies, and Sheriff’s Departments (Deputies) – $250,000.
- Category 2: Training Program for Correctional Officers, Probation, and Parole, and Sheriff’s Departments (Jails) – $250,000.
Period of Performance
Period of Performance Duration (Months) – 36.
Eligibility Criteria
- City or township governments, County governments, Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized), and State governments.
- For purposes of this solicitation, “state” means any state of the United States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands.
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