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Competitive solicitations

FY24 Second Chance Act Pay for Success Program

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This program provides funding to use performance-based or outcomes-based contracting to enhance or implement clinical services and other evidence-based responses to improve reentry, reduce recidivism, and address the treatment and recovery needs of people with mental health, substance use, or co-occurring disorders who are currently involved in the criminal justice system or were formerly involved.

FY24 Improving Adult and Youth Crisis Stabilization and Community Reentry Program

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This program serves to minimize potential for experiencing crisis and improve recovery outcomes for people with serious mental illness, substance use disorders, and co-occurring disorders who are currently involved with the criminal or juvenile justice systems or reentering the community from these systems.

FY24 Strengthening the Medical Examiner-Coroner System Program

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This program will award funding for forensic pathology fellowships and resources necessary for medical examiner-coroner offices to achieve and maintain accreditation.

FY24 Justice and Mental Health Collaboration Program

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This opportunity focuses 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.

FY24 Adult Treatment Court Program

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With this solicitation, BJA seeks to provide financial and technical assistance to states, state courts, local courts, units of local government, and federally recognized Indian tribal governments to plan, implement, and enhance the operations of adult treatment courts.

FY24 Connect and Protect: Law Enforcement Behavioral Health Response Program

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This program supports law enforcement–behavioral health cross-system collaboration to improve public health and public safety by improving responses to and outcomes for individuals with mental health disorders or co-occurring mental health and substance use disorders.

FY 2023 Advancing Women Officers in State and Local Law Enforcement: Technical Assistance and Microgrant Program

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With this solicitation, BJA seeks applications for funding an organization to support the implementation of the 30x30 Initiative to advance women in policing in state, local, and tribal law enforcement agencies, provide technical assistance to law enforcement agencies participating in the 30x30 Pledge, and administer a competitive microgrant program to these agencies.

FY 2023 State, Local, Tribal, and Territorial Information Sharing Technical Assistance Program

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With this solicitation, BJA, in partnership with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, is seeking applications to support the standardization of information-sharing practices and the identification and sharing of state, local, tribal, and territorial information-sharing exchange promising practices and lessons learned.

FY 2023 Tribal Civil and Criminal Legal Assistance Program

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With this solicitation, BJA seeks applications for funding to improve the capacity of tribal justice systems to address civil and criminal legal assistance needs in their jurisdictions.

FY 2023 Harold Rogers Prescription Drug Monitoring Program (PDMP)

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The goal of this program is to support state and local governments in detecting and preventing the diversion and misuse of pharmaceutically controlled substances such as opioids and other prescription drugs.

FY 2023 Office of Justice Programs Community Based Violence Intervention and Prevention Initiative

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Through this opportunity, BJA, in coordination with the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention and the Office for Victims of Crime, seeks applications for funding to prevent and reduce violent crime in communities by supporting comprehensive, evidence-based violence intervention and prevention programs.

FY 2022 Reimagining Justice: Testing a New Model of Community Safety

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This opportunity will fund the development and testing of a new or innovative approach to improving community safety and trust that is an alternative to traditional enforcement mechanisms for neighborhoods experiencing high rates of less serious and low-level criminal offenses.

FY 2022 Drug Data Research Center to Combat the Opioid Crisis

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This program provides funding to create a regional drug data research center that promotes the collection, analysis, and dissemination of information critical in response to the overdose crisis and impacts of opioids, stimulants, and other substances.

FY 2022 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grants Program - Competitive

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This program seeks to improve forensic science and medical examiner/coroner services, including services provided by laboratories operated by states and units of local government. This solicitation is only for the competitive funds available under the program.

FY 2022 Forensics Training and Technical Assistance Program

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This program will provide support to the forensic science grant programs administered by the Bureau of Justice Assistance (an estimated 500-plus grantees).

FY 2022 Prosecuting Cold Cases Using DNA

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This program provides funding to increase the capacity of state and local prosecution offices to address/close violent crime cold cases.

FY 2022 Postconviction Testing of DNA Evidence

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This opportunity will provide funding to assist in defraying the costs associated with postconviction case review, evidence location, and DNA testing in violent felony cases (as defined by state law) where the results of such testing might show actual innocence.

FY 2022 Justice Information Sharing Training and Technical Assistance Program

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This opportunity provides funding to manage the Criminal Intelligence Systems Operating Policies (28 CFR Part 23) Training and Technical Assistance Program available to state, local, tribal, and territorial criminal justice agencies.

FY 2022 Field Initiated: Encouraging Innovation

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This program will provide funding to prevent and reduce crime and enhance the criminal justice system through innovative approaches that accelerate justice by identifying, defining, and responding to emerging or chronic crime problems and systemic issues using innovative approaches.

FY 2022 Justice Counts Implementation Program

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This program helps state governments improve their capacity to set goals for their criminal justice systems, measure whether they are achieving them, and use results to make data-driven policy decisions and allocate scarce resources effectively.