FY 2022 Connect and Protect: Law Enforcement Behavioral Health Response Program

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”).