With this solicitation, Office of Juvenile Justice Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) seeks applications for funding to support cross-system collaboration to improve responses and outcomes for youth under the age of 18 or youth under the jurisdiction of the juvenile justice system with mental health disorders (MHD) or co-occurring mental health and substance use disorders (MHSUDs) who come in contact with the juvenile justice system.
Donor Name: Office of Juvenile Justice Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP)
State: All States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 06/18/2024
Size of the Grant: $500,000 to $1 million
Grant Duration: 3 Years
Details:
The goal of the Youth Justice and Mental Health Collaboration Program is to increase public safety by facilitating cross-system collaboration among youth justice, mental health, and substance use treatment agencies to improve response and outcomes for justice-involved youth with MHDs and MHSUDs.
The objectives are to develop and implement a cross-system collaborative relationship to improve public safety and youth outcomes for preliminarily qualified justice-involved youth with MHDs and MHSUDs.
Funding Information
- Anticipated total amount to be awarded under this solicitation: $4,000,000.
- Anticipated maximum dollar amount per award: Awards will be up to $650,000.
Project Period
36 months
Eligibility Criteria
The following entities are eligible to apply:
- State governments
- Special district governments
- City or township governments
- County governments
- Native American Tribal governments (federally recognized)
- Public- and state-controlled institutions of higher education
- Agencies with a different legal status (e.g., nonprofit or for-profit mental health agencies) are eligible to apply only if they meet the following two requirements: (1) the applicant is designated by the state mental health authority to provide services as a unit of the state or local government and (2) the applicant must attach documentation to support this designation.
For the purposes of this notice of funding opportunity, “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.
For more information, visit Grants.gov.
