Iowa State Crisis Intervention Program (SCIP) Award 2022/2023

The ICIAB has identified behavioral health as the top priority area for Iowa’s initial round of SCIP funding awards, with emphasis on youth programming and including both rural and urban communities. Within this priority area, the Board specifically identified the following as potential project responses to implement SCIP gun violence reduction objectives: • Mental health partnerships, • Crisis centers, • Co-responder projects, • Specialty courts, • Jail diversion, • Mobile crisis units, • Community programs, • Youth diversion programs, • Community response to methamphetamine, • Gun violence intervention, • Geo-fencing technology, and • Other innovative behavioral health-related state and local programming. The Iowa Office of Drug Control Policy will direct SCIP grant funding to state and local units of government to support program activities outlined in BJA’s State Crisis Intervention Program Formula Solicitiation and based on the priority areas and potential projects identified in this plan. Non-profits and faith based organizations will be eligible, but will need to apply in partnership with a state or local units of government. The ODCP will use a well-established competitive grant application/independent review as the mechanism to evaluate and select subrecipient to pass through funding to state and local units of government. The solicitation will include the following narrative components; data assessment/description of problem, implementation planning, best practices/evidence-informed practices, goals and objectives, and performance evaluation.