Collaborative Crisis Response and Intervention Training Program
Link
https://bja.ojp.gov/funding/opportunities/o-bja-2025-172338
Additional Links
Notice of Funding Opportunity (Grants.gov)
Deadline
Application Deadline: Mar 18, 2025
Sponsor
Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA)
Purpose
Provides funding to help and support law enforcement, correctional officers, probation and parole, and sheriff's departments effectively partner with mental health, substance use, and community service professionals and agencies to promote public safety and ensure appropriate responses are provided to individuals in crisis with behavioral health conditions, intellectual disabilities, developmental disabilities, physical disabilities, and/or traumatic brain injuries.
Aims to improve public safety and ensure appropriate responses for individuals in crisis with behavioral health conditions and disabilities by accomplishing the following objectives:
- Planning, developing, and/or enhancing training programs for law enforcement or correctional staff to better respond to and address the needs of individuals in crisis, including working with community service provider
- Evaluating a training program based on Crisis Response and Intervention Training (CRIT) program for officers utilizing the Bureau of Justice Assistance's (BJA) CRIT curriculum
Eligible applicants may apply for funding under the following program categories:
Category 1: Training Program for Law Enforcement Officers - including police departments, patrol-based sheriff's officers, field-based probation and parole officers, and campus-based police
Category 2: Training Program for Correctional Officers - including facility-based probation and parole, facility-based sheriff's officers, and other officers working inside a correctional facility
Additional information about program activities, objectives, and deliverables can be found in the program guidance.
Amount of Funding
Award ceiling: $312,500
Project period: 36 months
Estimated number of awards: 4 awards in
each category
Estimated total program funding:
$2,000,000
Who Can Apply
Eligible applicants include:
- State governments
- City, township, or county governments
- Public and state-controlled institutions of higher education with on-campus police departments
- Public or state-controlled hospitals with on-campus police departments
- Native American tribal governments
- Other units of local government, such as towns, boroughs, parishes, villages, or general purpose political subdivisions of a state
Geographic Coverage
Nationwide
What This Program Funds
Capacity Building • New Program
Application Process
Application instructions, requirements, and other information about the online application process 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 May 18, 2025 deadline.
- Step 2: Applicants will submit the full application, including attachments, in the JustGrants grants management system by the March 25, 2025 deadline.
Applicant webinar
February 18, 2025
2:00 - 3:30 p.m. Eastern
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
Topics This Program Addresses
Community Planning and Coalition Building • Crisis Response • Jails and Prisons • Law Enforcement • Mental Health • Re-entry and Community Supervision • Social Service Supports • Substance Use Disorder