The Bureau of Justice Assistance’s Kevin and Avonte Program: Reducing Injury and Death of Missing Individuals with Dementia and Developmental Disabilities supports local jurisdictions’ efforts 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.
Donor Name: Bureau of Justice Assistance
State: All States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline (mm/dd/yyyy): 05/14/2022
Grant Size: $150,000
Grant Duration: 24 months
Details:
This program furthers the DOJ’s mission by providing funding to law enforcement and other public safety agencies to implement locative technologies that track missing individuals, and it provides funding to such agencies and partnering nonprofit organizations to develop or operate programs to prevent wandering, increase vulnerable individuals’ safety, and facilitate rescues.
Goals
The goal of the program is to support local jurisdictions’ efforts 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, through the implementation of proactive programs and the acquisition of locative technology.
This opportunity includes the following categories:
- Proactive Programming
- Locative Technology
Funding Information
- Estimated Total Program Funding: $2,100,000
- Award Ceiling: $150,000
- Period of Performance Duration (Months) 24
Eligibility Criteria
- 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.
For more information, visit Grants.gov.