With this solicitation, Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) seeks to support state, local, and tribal governments, as well as community-based nonprofit organizations, to establish, expand, or improve treatment and recovery support services for people with substance use disorders (SUDs) 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: 05/06/2024
Size of the Grant: $500,000 to $1 million
Grant Duration: 3 Years
Details:
This program seeks to reduce crime and recidivism, expand access to evidence-based treatment, and promote long-term recovery for people leaving incarceration, and, in the process, improve public safety and public heal.
Goals
The goal of this program is to establish or expand system approaches that improve outcomes for adults with SUDs or co-occurring substance use and mental health disorders who are reentering communities following a period of incarceration.
Objectives
The objectives of this program are to support state, local, or tribal government agencies and nonprofit community-based organizations working with a corrections agency to:
- Use validated tools to screen all individuals entering a corrections setting for substance use and assess those that screen positive for SUDs and any co-occurring mental health disorder.
- Provide evidence-based SUD treatment services, including FDA approved medications for substance use disorder, counseling, and behavioral therapies, to individuals in prisons and jails and continue care upon return to the community.
- 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.
Funding Information
- Estimated Total Program Funding: $5,000,000
- Award Ceiling: $833,000
Period of Performance
36 months
Eligibility Criteria
- State governments
- Special district governments
- City or township governments
- County governments
- Native American tribal organizations (other than federally recognized tribal governments)
- Native American tribal governments (federally recognized)
- Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
- Nonprofits that do not have a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
For more information, visit Grants.gov.
