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BJA FY 21 Collaborative Crisis Response Training Program

Agency: Bureau of Justice Assistance

Assistance Listings
  • 16.745 -- Criminal and Juvenile Justice and Mental Health Collaboration Program

Closed opportunityLast Updated: May 13, 2026

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Description

The Department of Justice is committed to advancing work that promotes civil rights, increases access to justice, supports crime victims, protects the public from crime and evolving threats, and builds trust between law enforcement and the community. This initiative seeks to implement transdisciplinary crisis response training to educate and prepare law enforcement and correctional officers so that they are equipped to appropriately interact with people who have behavioral health conditions or disabilities in the course of completing their job responsibilities

Eligibility

Eligible applicants

Government

  • City or township governments
  • Federally recognized Native American tribal governments
  • State governments
  • County governments

Nonprofit

  • Other Native American tribal organizations

Miscellaneous

  • Other

Additional information

Other—correctional  entitiesFor the purposes of this solicitation, “state” means any state of the United States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, American Samoa, Guam, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands. (See 34 U.S.C. 10251.)To advance Executive Order 13929 Safe Policing for Safe Communities, as of October 28, 2020, the Attorney General determined that all state, local, and university or college law enforcement agencies must be certified by an approved independent credentialing body or have started the certification process to be allocated FY 2021 DOJ discretionary grant funding, as either a recipient or a subrecipient.  For detailed information on this new certification requirement, please visit https://cops.usdoj.gov/SafePolicingEO. All recipients and subrecipients (including any for-profit organization) must forgo any profit or management fee

Grantor contact information

Description

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Email

Technical Assistance

grants@ncjrs.gov

Documents

No documents are currently available.

Link to additional information

https://bja.ojp.gov/funding/opportunities/o-bja-2021-121003

Closed: August 13, 2021

Application process

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Award

$6,900,000

Program Funding

46

Expected awards

$--

Award Minimum

$150,000

Award Maximum

Funding opportunity number:

O-BJA-2021-21003

Cost sharing or matching requirement:

No

Funding instrument type:

Grant

Opportunity Category:

Discretionary

Opportunity Category Explanation:

--

Category of Funding Activity:

Affordable care act

Category Explanation:

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History

Version:

7

Posted date:

May 21, 2021

Archive date:

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