With this solicitation, Bureau of Justice Assistance (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 VTCs including service coordination, participant service and supervision coordination, fidelity to the VTC model, and recovery support services.
Donor Name: Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA)
State: All States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 06/20/2024
Size of the Grant: More than $1 million
Grant Duration: 4 Years
Details:
Goals
To provide VTCs and professionals in the criminal justice system with the resources needed to plan, implement, enhance, and sustain evidence-based treatment court programs for veterans with SUDs who are involved in the criminal justice system in order to reduce recidivism, increase access to treatment and recovery support, and prevent overdose.
Objectives
- Increase the number of potential participants screened (i.e., determine eligibility) and assessed (i.e., identity criminogenic risk, substance use or mental health conditions) from open to close of project period.
- Ensure all grantees administer mandatory and random drug and alcohol testing of program participants to help monitor substance use and treatment progress over the project period.
- Ensure all grantees provide or develop access to evidence-based SUD treatment, as well as recovery support services, over the project period.
- Ensure all grantees provide or develop the capacity to access all three forms of FDAapproved medications to treat SUDs over the project period.
- Increase graduation rates for all treatment court participants actively participating in the grant program from open to close of project period.
- Reduce the current recidivism rate among program participants actively participating in the grant program from open to close of project period.
- Ensure all grantees, over the project period, have access to BJA treatment court resources (e.g., TTA) needed to:
- Effectively provide judicial and community supervision, mandatory and random drug testing, substance use and mental health disorder treatment, and appropriate incentives and sanctions.
- Ensure the utilization of evidence-based practices and principles that incorporate the Best Practice Standards and other relevant research.
- Ensure that all individuals eligible for the treatment court program have equivalent access as measured by the collection and examination of program data.
Funding Information
- Anticipated Total Amount To Be Awarded Under This Solicitation: $19,500,000
- Anticipated Maximum Dollar Amount per Award: Up to $2,500,000
- Project Period
- 48 months
Eligibility Criteria
For Category 1: Planning and Implementation and Category 2: Enhancement, eligible applicants are limited to:
- State governments
- Special district governments
- City or township governments
- County governments
- Public housing authorities/Indian housing authorities
- Native American tribal governments (federally recognized)
- Public or private entities acting on behalf of a single treatment court through agreement with state, city, township, county, or tribal governments
- Units of local government, such as towns, boroughs, parishes, villages, or other general purpose political subdivisions of a state
For Category 3: Statewide, eligible applicants are limited to:
- State agencies such as the State Administering Agency, the Administrative Office of the Courts, and the State Substance Abuse Agency
- State criminal justice agencies and other state agencies involved with the provision of substance use and/or mental health services, or related services for court and related criminal justice programming.
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.
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