The Medication-Assisted Treatment (MAT) Grant Program to be administered by the Board of State and Community Corrections (BSCC) to award grants on a competitive basis to counties and authorize counties that receive MAT grants to use grant funds for various purposes relating to the treatment of substance use disorders and the provision of medication-assisted treatment.
Donor Name: California Board of State and Community Corrections (BSCC)
State: California
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 02/16/2024
Size of the Grant: More than $1 million
Grant Duration: 3 Years
Details:
The bill requires counties that receive MAT grants to collect and maintain data relating to the effectiveness of the program. BSCC will submit a final report to the Legislature describing the activities funded by the grant program and the success of those activities in reducing drug overdoses, and recidivism by individuals who are incarcerated and persons under criminal justice supervision.
Funding Information
- This RFP makes $10,000,000 available competitively to county applicants to implement medication-assisted treatment programs and applicable activities.
- Individual County Applicants
- Individual counties may request up to a maximum of $1,250,000 for the entire term of the grant agreement.
- Collaborative County Applicants
- Two or more counties may submit one collaborative proposal and request up to a maximum of $2,500,000 for the entire term of the grant agreement.
Project Period
Proposals selected for funding will be under contract agreement with the BSCC from May 1, 2024, to December 31, 2027.
Target Population
Authorizing legislation limits the use of grant funds to three target populations:
- Individuals who are incarcerated in county detention facilities with substance use disorders,
- individuals under criminal justice supervision with substance use disorders and
- justice-involved individuals with substance use disorders.
Eligible Grant Activities
Assembly Bill 653 states funds may be used by recipient counties for one or more of the following activities:
- Substance Use Disorder Counselors in County Jails
- Salaries and related costs for the placement of substance use disorder counselors in county jails that provide medication-assisted treatment to individuals who are incarcerated with a substance use disorder.
- Post-Release Medication
- Doses of medication related to substance use disorder for individuals who are incarcerated to take home upon release from county jail.
- Service Contracts Between Jails and Treatment Providers
- Funding for services provided pursuant to contracts between county jail health providers and narcotic treatment providers.
- Law Enforcement/Behavioral Health Mobile Crisis Teams
- Mobile crisis teams of behavioral health professionals that can respond with law enforcement to mental health or other health crisis calls. Mobile response activities funded shall include referrals for substance use disorder treatment and medication-assisted treatment for individuals under criminal justice supervision when clinically appropriate.
- MAT for Persons Under Criminal Justice Supervision
- Salary and related costs for providing medication-assisted treatment for persons who are under criminal justice supervision. For the purpose of this grant, “Criminal justice supervision” means individuals on probation, post-release community supervision, and mandatory supervision.
- Community-Based MAT and Substance Use Disorder Treatment Services
- Funding to increase capacity for community-based, medication-assisted treatment and substance use disorder treatment services for justice-involved individuals, or to improve care coordination and connections to medication-assisted treatment services upon release from detention facilities.
Eligibility Criteria
- Eligible applicants are California counties.
Individual County Applicants
- An individual county may apply on its own.
Collaborative County Applicants
- Two or more counties may submit a collaborative application. For collaborative applications:
- The agencies and jurisdictions comprising the collaborative application are not required to be contiguous.
- One county must be identified as the Applicant.
- The other county agency or agencies must be identified in the Application Information Section in Submittable and within the grant proposal narrative.
For more information, visit BSCC.
