BJA FY24 Improving Adult and Youth Crisis Stabilization and Community Reentry Program | O BJA 2024 171997

Opportunity Information: Apply for O BJA 2024 171997

The Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) FY24 Improving Adult and Youth Crisis Stabilization and Community Reentry Program is a discretionary federal grant opportunity focused on strengthening how justice systems and behavioral health systems work together to support people with serious mental illness (SMI), substance use disorders (SUD), and co-occurring disorders. The core idea is to reduce the likelihood that justice-involved individuals experience behavioral health crises and to improve long-term recovery outcomes by building coordinated, evidence-based supports that start early (including pretrial), continue during confinement, and remain in place during the critical transition back into the community.

This program is designed to fund cross-system collaboration among criminal and juvenile justice agencies, mental health and substance use agencies, community-based reentry service organizations, and community behavioral health providers. Rather than treating justice involvement and behavioral health needs as separate tracks, BJA is seeking projects that integrate planning, information-sharing, and service delivery so people do not fall through gaps when they move between settings such as arrest and booking, pretrial supervision, jail or detention, residential placement, and reentry into community supervision and community care. The emphasis on continuity of care means applicants are expected to think beyond one-time interventions and instead support ongoing clinical stabilization and recovery, including linkages to community treatment and recovery supports that persist after release.

The target population includes adults and youth who are currently involved with the criminal or juvenile justice systems as well as those reentering the community from those systems, specifically individuals with SMI, SUD, or co-occurring disorders. Funded activities are intended to be clinical and evidence-based, which typically implies approaches grounded in research and practice standards for behavioral health stabilization, treatment engagement, and recovery support. While the solicitation summary does not list specific required models, the framing strongly aligns with strategies such as coordinated case planning across agencies, warm handoffs to community providers at release, reentry-focused treatment continuation, and collaborative responses that prevent crises from escalating into emergency events or re-incarceration.

Eligible applicants are broad and include state governments, county governments, city or township governments, federally recognized Native American tribal governments, and community-based nonprofit organizations (including both 501(c)(3) nonprofits and nonprofits without 501(c)(3) status, as long as they are not institutions of higher education). This eligibility structure signals that BJA is open to both government-led and community-led partnerships, as long as the proposal can demonstrate real collaboration across justice, behavioral health, and reentry systems and the capacity to deliver or coordinate the services needed across the pretrial, confinement, and reentry phases.

Key funding details from the opportunity listing include the Funding Opportunity Number O-BJA-2024-171997, CFDA 16.812, and an activity category of Law, Justice and Legal Services. The application closing date listed is April 25, 2024, and BJA anticipated making about 10 awards. The award ceiling is $825,000, which suggests mid-sized projects intended to build or expand coordinated programs rather than small pilots or very large statewide overhauls, though the exact scope would depend on the applicant jurisdiction, partnership design, and service strategy.

In practical terms, a competitive application under this solicitation would likely describe how partners will jointly identify eligible individuals, assess behavioral health needs, stabilize people in ways that reduce crisis risk, and maintain engagement in treatment and recovery supports during and after justice involvement. Strong proposals would typically spell out roles for each system partner, how referrals and handoffs will work, how services will be sustained across transitions, and how the project will use evidence-based activities to reduce crisis events and improve recovery-related outcomes for justice-involved people with significant behavioral health needs.

• The Bureau of Justice Assistance in the law, justice and legal services sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "BJA FY24 Improving Adult and Youth Crisis Stabilization and Community Reentry Program" and is now available to receive applicants.
• Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 16.812.
• This funding opportunity was created on 2024-02-26.
• Applicants must submit their applications by 2024-04-25. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
• Each selected applicant is eligible to receive up to $825,000.00 in funding.
• The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 10 candidate(s).
• Eligible applicants include: State governments, County governments, City or township governments, Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized), Nonprofits having a 501 (c) (3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education, Nonprofits that do not have a 501 (c) (3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education.

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