Collaborative Crisis Response and Intervention Training Program – US

Deadline: 15-May-24

The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), Office of Justice Programs (OJP), Bureau of Justice Affairs (BJA) is seeking applications for funding.

BJA seeks to support law enforcement, correctional officers, probation and parole, and sheriff’s departments in effectively partnering with mental health, substance use, community service professionals and agencies to promote public safety and make sure that appropriate responses are provided to individuals in crisis who have behavioral health conditions, intellectual disabilities, developmental disabilities, or physical disabilities, and/or traumatic brain injuries.

Goals

• This program seeks to improve responses to and outcomes for people in crisis who come into contact with law enforcement.

Objectives

With this solicitation, the CRIT Program supports law enforcement agencies throughout the country to pursue the following objectives:

• Plan, develop, or enhance a patrol or institutional confinement training program to improve crisis response and intervention for people in crisis, including collaborative training with community service providers.
• Evaluate a training program based on BJA’s CRIT Curriculum.

Priority Areas

In order to further OJP’s mission, OJP will provide priority consideration when making award decisions to the following:

• 1A. Applications that propose project(s) that are designed to meaningfully advance equity and remove barriers to accessing services and opportunities for communities that have been historically underserved, marginalized, adversely affected by inequality, and disproportionately impacted by crime, violence, and victimization.
  • To receive this consideration, the applicant must describe how the proposed project(s) will address identified inequities and contribute to greater access to services and opportunities for communities that have been historically underserved, marginalized, adversely affected by inequality, and disproportionately impacted by crime, violence, and victimization. Project activities under this consideration may include but are not limited to the following: improving victim services, justice responses, prevention initiatives, reentry services and other parts of an organization’s or community’s efforts to advance public safety. Applicants should propose activities that address the cultural (and linguistic, if appropriate) needs of communities, outline how the proposed activities will be informed by these communities, and implement culturally responsive and inclusive outreach and engagement.
• 1B. Applicants that demonstrate that their capabilities and competencies for implementing their proposed project(s) are enhanced because they (or at least one proposed subrecipient that will receive at least 40 percent of the requested award funding, as demonstrated in the Budget web-based form) are a population specific organization that serves communities that have been historically underserved, marginalized, adversely affected by inequality, and disproportionately impacted by crime, violence, and victimization.
  • For purposes of this solicitation, population specific organizations are nonprofit, nongovernmental, or Tribal organizations that primarily serve members of a specific underserved population and have demonstrated experience and expertise providing targeted services to members of that specific underserved population.

Funding Categories

• Category 1: Training Program for Law Enforcement Officers, including campus-based police; Law Enforcement Agencies, including Probation and Parole (field- based); and Sheriff Departments (patrol-based)
• Category 2: Training Program for Correctional Officers, Probation and Parole(facility-based), and Sheriff’s Department (facility-based)

Funding Information

• Anticipated Number of Awards: 8: 4 in each category
• Anticipated Maximum Dollar Amount per Award: up to $250,000
• Period of Performance Start Date: October 1, 2024
• Period of Performance Duration (Months): 36
• Anticipated Total Amount To Be Awarded Under This Solicitation: $2,000,000

Eligibility

• State governments
• City or township governments
• Public and state-controlled institutions of higher education (with on-campus police departments, public or state-controlled hospitals with on-campus police departments)
• County governments
• Public housing authorities/Indian housing authorities (with public safety/peace officers or campus police)
• Native American tribal organizations (other than federally recognized tribal governments)
• Native American tribal governments (federally recognized)
• Other: Units of local government, such as towns, boroughs, parishes, villages, or other general purpose political subdivisions of a state
• An applicant may submit more than one application, if each application proposes a different project in response to the solicitation. Also, an entity may be proposed as a subrecipient (subgrantee) in more than one application.
• BJA will consider applications under which two or more entities (project partners) would carry out the federal award; however, only one entity may be the applicant for the solicitation. Any others must be proposed as subrecipients (subgrantees).

For more information, visit Grants.gov.