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Comprehensive Opioid, Stimulant, and Substance Use Site-Based Program (COSSUP)

Link

https://bja.ojp.gov/funding/opportunities/o-bja-2024-172128

Additional Links

Notice of Funding Opportunity (Grants.gov)
Solicitation Overview

Deadline

Application Deadline: Jul 1, 2024

Sponsor

Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA)

Purpose

Offers financial aid and technical assistance to states, local governments, and Native American tribal governments to develop, implement, and expand comprehensive efforts to identify, respond to, treat, and support those impacted by the use and misuse of opioids, stimulants, and other substances. Aims to reduce substance misuse, overdose deaths, and their effects on crime victims by increasing collaboration among community stakeholders to deliver various treatment, supervision, and recovery support services that are evidence based and culturally appropriate to individuals involved with the criminal justice system and their family members. Includes community-based prevention and harm reduction efforts, as well as emergency response programs, diversion, court-based or prison/jail-based programs and services to enhance community safety and support historically underserved and marginalized populations affected by substance misuse.

Comprehensive Opioid, Stimulant, and Substance Use Site-Based Program (COSSUP) funding consists of 2 categories:

Category 1 - Local Jurisdictions: Supports the development of COSSUP initiatives in urban, suburban, rural, and tribal jurisdictions
Category 2 - States: Funds state efforts to implement and enhance program activities in 1 or more of the allowable program activities in a minimum of 6 geographically diverse county, local, regional, or tribal jurisdictions. Category 2 applicants apply on behalf of localities, tribal entities, or regions within a state and assist with project implementation.

Program activities under categories 1 and 2 include:

Prebooking or postbooking treatment alternative-to-incarceration programs for individuals at high risk for overdose or substance use disorder
Law enforcement and other first responder deflection and diversion programs
Substance misuse education and prevention programs connecting law enforcement with K-12 students
Embedding social workers, peers, and/or persons with lived experience at any intercept of the Sequential Intercept Model to help persons with justice involvement and their families navigate the justice system and connect them to treatment and recovery services
Comprehensive, regional information collection, analysis, and dissemination in real time
Naloxone for law enforcement, first responders, jail staff, and other justice system practitioners
Take back programs for unused controlled substances found in the home and used by hospitals, long-term care, and other facilities
Evidence-based treatment, including medication-assisted treatment (MAT), contingency management, and motivational interviewing, harm reduction activities, and recovery support services for pre-trial and post-trial populations in and leaving local or regional jails or secure residential treatment facilities
Transitional or recovery housing and recovery support services, including peer recovery
Court programming that provides treatment and recovery services for individuals at high risk of overdose, and services for children and youth impacted by parents' or family members' substance use
Field-initiated projects that bring together justice, behavioral health, and public health practitioners to implement new or promising practices to address opioids, stimulants, and other substances among the target population

Projects should include a multidisciplinary coordinating body such as a criminal justice coordinating council, prevention coalition, or overdose fatality review that is comprised of key community stakeholders, including public safety, public health, behavioral health, K-12 education, family services, local government, and nonprofit services agencies.

Additional information on category 1 and 2 objectives and deliverables can be found in the funding announcement.

Amount of Funding

Category 1 award ceilings:

Subcategory 1a: $1,600,000 per project
Subcategory 1b: $1,300,000 per project
Subcategory 1c: $1,000,000 per project

Category 2 award ceiling: $7,000,000 per project

Project period: 36 months
Estimated number of awards: 76
Estimated total program funding: $127,300,000

An estimated 24 awards will be made under Category 1c for applicants located in rural or tribal areas.

Who Can Apply

Eligible Category 1 applicants are limited to:

City, township, or county governments
Federally recognized Native American tribal governments

Jurisdictions without a county or local government-based substance use treatment service system may select the state administering agency (SAA) to act as the primary applicant. All category 1 applicants must apply under the appropriate subcategory based on the population of the proposed project area:

Subcategory 1a: Urban area or large jurisdiction with a population greater than 500,000
Subcategory 1b: Suburban area or medium-size jurisdiction with a population between 100,000 and 500,000
Subcategory 1c: Rural jurisdiction with a population of fewer than 100,000 or a federally recognized Indian tribe

For this opportunity, a rural area is defined as a jurisdiction in which all or part of a county is either entirely rural or is an urban or suburban county that contains rural census tracts as identified by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) Rural Health Grants Eligibility Analyzer.

Eligible Category 2 applicants are limited to:

The SAA responsible for directing criminal justice planning
The state alcohol and substance use agency
Other state agencies appropriate for the scope for the project

Category 2 grantees are required to include a research partnership, and grant funds must be used to select and provide subawards to local communities, regions, or tribal entities within their state.

Priority consideration is given to proposals that:

Advance equity and remove barriers to accessing services and opportunities for communities that have been historically underserved, marginalized, adversely affected by inequality, and disproportionately impacted by crime, violence, and victimization
Include a research partnership for Category 1 applicants
Demonstrate a greater than 50% annual increase in recent drug-related overdose deaths, based on local- or state-level overdose death data related to opioids and/or stimulants for the years 2021 and 2022, as well as 2023, if available

Geographic Coverage

Nationwide

What This Program Funds

Capacity Building • Equipment • New Program • Operating Costs and Staffing • Training Providers

Application Process

Application instructions, requirements, and other information can be found in the funding announcement.

Applications must be submitted electronically through a 2-step process:

Step 1: Applicants will submit an SF-424 and an SF-LLL in grants.gov by the July 1, 2024 deadline.
Step 2: Applicants will submit the full application, including attachments, in the JustGrants grants management system by the July 8, 2024 deadline.

Applicant webinar recording and slides

Contact

For questions on submitting in grants.gov:
800-518-4726
support@grants.gov

For questions on submitting in JustGrants:
833-872-5175
JustGrants.Support@usdoj.gov

For programmatic and technical questions:
Office of Justice Programs (OJP) Response Center
800-851-3420
TTY at 301-240-6310
grants@ncjrs.gov

Rural Awards

Past awards communities received in fiscal year 2023 can be found on the program website.

Rural communities who have received funding include:

Greene County in New York
Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin in Keshena, Wisconsin
Oglala Sioux Tribe of Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in Pine Ridge, South Dakota
Surry County in New Carolina
Tillamook County in Oregon

Topics This Program Addresses

Community Planning and Coalition Building • Harm Reduction • Healthcare Workforce • Mental Health • Naloxone • Overdose Prevention • Prevention • Re-entry and Community Supervision • Substance Use Disorder • Treatment