The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), Office of Justice Programs (OJP), Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) seeks applications for funding to plan and implement and to enhance veterans treatment court services to include coordination, management of veterans treatment court participants, and recovery support services.
Donor Name: Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA)
State: All States
County: All Counties
U.S. Territories: American Samoa, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline (mm/dd/yyyy): 05/20/2022
Size of the Grant: $700,000 – $2,000,000
Grant Duration: 4 years
Details:
The Veterans Treatment Court (VTC) Grant Program provides financial and technical assistance to states, state courts, local courts, units of local government, and federally recognized Indian tribal governments to implement and enhance the operations of veterans treatment courts.
Goals
To provide veterans treatment courts and criminal justice professionals with the resources needed to implement, enhance, and sustain evidence-based treatment and recovery support programs and systems for eligible veterans in the criminal justice system who have substance use disorders.
Objectives
- Ensure practitioners have the tools to effectively provide judicial and community supervision, mandatory and random drug testing, substance use disorder and mental health treatment, and appropriate incentives and sanctions.
- Utilize evidence-based practices and principles that incorporate NADCP’s best practice standards and other relevant research.
- Ensure early and accurate identification of potential veterans for referral to veterans treatment courts, including use of the Veterans Re-Entry Search Service.
- Ensure that all individuals eligible for the program have equivalent access to it as measured by the collection and examination of program data.
- Build and maximize the capacity of jurisdictions to ensure that all potential participants are identified and assessed for risk and need.
- Enhance the provision of recovery support services, including transitional clean and sober housing assistance, to support ongoing recovery.
- Enhance collaboration between states and local and/or tribal jurisdictions to support the operations and enhancements of VTC activities.
Funding Information
- Planning & Implementation – $700,000.00 (48 Months).
- Enhancement – $750,000.00 (48 Months).
- Statewide – $2,000,000.00 (48 Months).
Eligibility Criteria
For Category 1 (Planning and Implementation) and Category 2 (Enhancement), the following entities are eligible to apply:
- State governments
- City or township governments
- County governments
- Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized)
- Other State, city, township, county, or tribal governments acting directly or through agreements with other public or private entities on behalf of a single drug court
For Category 3 (Statewide), the following entities are eligible to apply:
- State agencies such as the State Administering Agency, the Administrative Office of the Courts, and the State Substance Abuse Agency
- State criminal justice agencies and other state agencies involved with the provision of substance use and/or mental health services, or related services, to veterans in the criminal justice system
For purposes of this solicitation, “state” means any state of the United States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands.
For more information, visit Grants.gov.