Through this opportunity, the Bureau of Justice Assistance seeks applications for funding to reduce the number of deaths and injuries of individuals with forms of dementia, such as Alzheimer’s disease, or developmental disabilities, such as autism, who, due to their condition, wander from safe environments.
This opportunity includes the following categories:
- Proactive Programming
- Locative Technology
Eligible Applicants:
The following entities are eligible to apply for Category 1:
- Health care agencies.
- State or local law enforcement, tribal law enforcement, or other public safety agencies.
- Nonprofit organizations (including tribal nonprofit organizations), with preference given to nonprofit organizations that work with such entities in planning, designing, establishing, or operating locally based, proactive programs to locate and prevent the wandering of missing individuals with forms of dementia, such as Alzheimer’s disease, or developmental disabilities, such as autism, who, due to their condition, wander from safe environments. (For this program, “nonprofit organizations” means an organization that is described in section 501(c)(3) of Title 26 and is exempt from taxation under section 501(a) of such title.)
The following entities are eligible to apply for Category 2:
- Health care agencies.
- State or local law enforcement, tribal law enforcement, or other public safety agencies.
- Federally recognized American Indian tribal governments that perform public safety activities.
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