FY24 Justice and Mental Health Collaboration Program

With this solicitation, the Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) seeks applications for funding programs that support cross-system collaboration to improve public safety responses and outcomes for individuals with mental health disorders (MHDs) or co-occurring mental health and substance use disorders (MHSUDs). BJA provides grant funding to help organizations prepare, create, or expand comprehensive plans and then implement these collaborative projects to target people who qualify.

For the purposes of the FY24 solicitation, the program will focus on pretrial, prosecution, courts, probation/parole, and addressing the needs directly related to the criminal activity of adults with mental health conditions, living in homelessness or marginalized communities with minimal access to treatment, needing wrap around services, in the criminal justice system and leaving incarceration.

For law enforcement-focused projects, see the FY24 Connect and Protect: Law Enforcement Behavioral Health Response Program opportunity.

Funding Categories:

• Category 1: Criminal Justice System Collaboration: Pretrial, Prosecution, Courts, Behavioral Health
• Category 2: Community Justice and Collaboration: Jails & Prisons, Probation & Parole, Behavioral Health

Eligible Applicants:

• State governments
• Special district governments
• City or township governments
• Public- and state-controlled institutions of higher education
• County governments
• Native American tribal governments (federally recognized)
• Other: Agencies with a different legal status (e.g., nonprofit or for-profit mental health agencies) are eligible to apply only if they meet two requirements:
  1. The applicant is designated by the state mental health authority to provide services as a unit of the state or local government.
  2. The applicant must attach documentation to support this designation.

See the solicitation for additional opportunity and eligibility details, as well as directions on how to apply.