Through this opportunity, the Bureau of Justice Assistance seeks applications for funding to support law enforcement-behavioral health cross-system collaboration to improve public health and safety responses and outcomes for individuals with mental health disorders and co-occurring mental health and substance use disorders.
Eligible Applicants:
- City or township governments
- County governments
- Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized)
- State governments
- Other:
- Public and state-controlled institutions of higher education.
- Organizations with a different legal status (e.g., nonprofit or for-profit mental health agencies) are eligible to apply only if they also have been designated as a state agency or unit of local government to provide mental health services. Documentation to support this designation must be attached to the application (34 USC § 10651(a)(5) “mental health agency” is defined as: “an agency of a state or local government or its contracted agency that is responsible for mental health services or co-occurring mental health and substance abuse services”).
Awards
Number of Awards: 31
Total Amount Awarded: $15,356,200
2022 La Crosse Co-Responder Collaboration
Alternative Dispatch Initiative: Mobile Crisis Outreach Response to 911 Behavioral Health Calls
Bexar County Connect and Protect Program
BJA FY 22 Connect and Protect: Law Enforcement Behavioral Health Response Program
BJA FY 22 Connect and Protect: Law Enforcement Behavioral Health Response Program
Chaffey Community College - BJA FY 22 Connect and Protect: Law Enforcement Behavioral Health Response Program
CHESTERFIELD COUNTY, VIRGINIA LAW ENFORCEMENT AND MENTAL HEALTH RESPONSE TEAMS
City of Alamosa Co-Responder Program
City of Perth Amboy Connect and Protect Grant Application
Clemson University Police Behavioral Health Crisis Response Program
Community Oriented Policing Addressing Youth Mental Health
Connect to Protect Project in Knox and Waldo Counties Maine
Cumberland County Sheriff's Office Mental Health Case Worker
Escambia County Sheriff's Office Connect and Protect: Law Enforcement Behavioral Health Response Program
Fallon Tribal Police and Health Center Behavioral Health Intervention and Response Project
FY22 Connect and Protect: ARRIVE Together
Hennepin County Connect and Protect
Implementing a Co-Responder Protocol at Cleveland State University
Integrated Data-Sharing for Co-Response
Law Enforcement Behavioral Health Response Program
Mental Health - Law Enforcement Co-Respondent Harlingen PD Team
Mental Health - Law Enforcement Co-Responder Brownsville PD Team
Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office Crisis Intervention Team Co-Responder Program
New York City Police Department FY22 Connect and Protect - Law Enforcement Behavioral Health Response Program
Pittsburgh Crisis Intervention Team
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