The California Board of State and Community Corrections (BSCC) is seeking applications for its Residential Substance Abuse Treatment Grant Program.
Donor Name: California Board of State and Community Corrections (BSCC)
State: California
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 02/02/2024
Size of the Grant: More than $1 million
Grant Duration: 3 Years
Details:
The goals of the RSAT Program are to enhance the capability local units of government to provide substance use disorder treatment for people who are incarcerated; prepare individuals who are/have been justice involved for their reintegration into the communities from which they came by incorporating reentry planning activities into treatment programs; and assist those individuals and their communities through the reentry process by delivering community-based treatment and other broad-based aftercare services.
The applicant’s program design must include the following components:
- Engage participants for at least three months and no more than 12 months.
- Focus on the participant’s substance use diagnosis and diagnosis-related needs.
- Develop the participant’s cognitive, behavioral, social, vocational, and other skills to solve the substance use and related problems.
- Prepare participants for successful community reintegration that may include postrelease referral to appropriate evidence-based aftercare treatment and/or service providers including those that support the use of medication-assisted treatment.
- To the extent possible, jail-based programs should separate the treatment population from the general correctional population, and program design should be based on evidence-based and evidence-supported practices.
- Require urinalysis and/or other proven reliable forms of substance use testing for program participants, including both periodic and random testing of:
- The participant before they enter the in-jail component of the RSAT program;
- During the period in which the individual participates in the in-jail component of the RSAT program;
- The participant who has exited the in-jail component of the RSAT program if the individual remains in-custody; and
- To the extent possible, the participant who has exited the in-jail component of the RSAT program and has been released from custody under supervision that includes substance use testing.
- Provide aftercare services for up to one year to those individuals who have completed the in-jail component of the RSAT program.
- Provide coordination between the in-jail treatment program and other social service and rehabilitation programs, such as education and job training, parole supervision, halfway houses, self-help, and peer group programs.
- Collaborate with local authorities and organizations involved in substance use disorder treatment to assist in the placement of program participants into community substance abuse treatment facilities or non-residential aftercare services upon release.
- Coordinate aftercare services with local Substance Use Disorder Treatment and Behavioral Health Services Administration
- When possible, leverage drug Medi-Cal services to fund aftercare treatment.
Funding Information
A total of $7,500,000 in federal RSAT funding is available statewide for this RFP. Adult detention facilities will be allowed to request up to a maximum of $1,500,000 for the period of July 1, 2024 through December 31, 2027.
Eligibility Criteria
- Counties that operate adult local detention facilities are eligible to apply and receive funding. Only one proposal per county may be submitted. A duly authorized county officer or department head responsible for the operation of the local detention facility must submit the proposal on behalf of the county.
- While the intent is to receive a wide range of proposals representing California’s diverse detention facilities, only the most meritorious proposals will be funded. Departments that have already developed RSAT substance abuse treatment programs but are seeking to augment those efforts, as well as departments considering implementing a program for the first time, are encouraged to apply. Programs previously awarded BJA RSAT funds through BSCC are eligible to apply.
- To be eligible for RSAT funding, applicants must provide both a jail-based (in-custody) substance use disorder treatment program and aftercare services. RSAT funding may be used for the in-custody component, the aftercare component, or both. If non-RSAT grant funding will be used to support any portion of the RSAT program, applicants will be expected to identify the non-RSAT grant related funding as part of the Project Budget.
For more information, visit BSCC.
