FY 2010 JMHCP Grant Program

The Bureau of Justice Assistance's (BJA) Justice and Mental Health Collaboration Program (JMHCP) is funded through the Mentally Ill Offender Treatment and Crime Reduction Act of 2004 (Public Law 108-414), which was reauthorized in 2008 (Public Law 110-416). The primary purpose of JMHCP is to increase public safety by facilitating collaboration among the criminal justice, juvenile justice, and mental health and substance abuse treatment systems to increase access to mental health and other treatment services for those individuals with mental illness or co-occurring mental health and substance use disorders. Jurisdictions are eligible to apply for planning, planning and implementation, or expansion funding through JMHCP.

The county of Kewaunee will use the Justice and Mental Health Collaboration Program (JMHCP) grant funds ($212,286) to expand and improve their mental health and substance abuse service delivery system. Kewaunee County will focus on individuals in crisis as a result of mental health or co-occurring disorder who have contact with law enforcement and who have current or prior misdemeanor charges. CA/NCF