Award Information
Description of original award (Fiscal Year 2010, $223,128)
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 Auglaize County Criminal Justice Mental Health Board, in cooperation with the Auglaize County Sheriff's Office, will use the Justice and Mental Health Collaboration Program (JMHCP) grant funds ($223,128) to assist non-violent offenders, age 18 and older, who have mental health or co-occurring mental health and alcohol/drug-related disorders. The overall goal is to engage offenders in mental health and drug abuse treatment either in the pre-incarceration phase (diversion) or in the incarceration and aftercare phases.
CA/NCF