Funding Opportunities

AWC Grant: Alternative Response Team Grant Program 

Website: https://wacities.org/services/alternative-response-team-grant-program

Description: The purpose of the Alternative Response Team Grant Program is to provide funding to cities to create new programs within different alternative response models including law enforcement assisted diversion (LEAD), community assistance referral and education (CARES), and mobile crisis teams.

The ARTG program is funded by state general fund dollars through the Health Care Authority.

Who Can Apply: Funding is only available to cities and towns. However, cities and towns are encouraged to partner with their county, fire district, sheriff, or local service providers to establish a program.

BJA GRANT: Collaborative Crisis Response and Intervention Training 

Website: here

The Collaborative Crisis Response and Intervention Training (CRIT) Program supports improved law enforcement engagement with people in crisis who have behavioral health conditions, intellectual disabilities, developmental disabilities, or physical disabilities, and/or traumatic brain injuries to achieve safe outcomes for all individuals in the community.

The program supports the design and use of best practice training approaches and tools, such as the implementation of the Bureau of Justice Assistance’s (BJA’s) national Crisis Response and Intervention Training curriculum, to increase understanding of behavioral health conditions and disabilities, navigate community resources, and improve de-escalation skills within the applicant organization and among patrol and facility-based staff.

Eligible Applicants:

State governments
City or township governments
Public and state-controlled institutions of higher education (with on-campus police departments, public or state-controlled hospitals with on-campus police departments)
County governments
Public housing authorities/Indian housing authorities (with public safety/peace officers or campus police)
Native American tribal organizations (other than federally recognized tribal governments)
Native American tribal governments (federally recognized)
Other: Units of local government, such as towns, boroughs, parishes, villages, or other general purpose political subdivisions of a state

SAMHSA GAINS Center

SAMHSA GAINS Center Learning Collaborative for Creating and Enhancing Community-Level Partnerships Among First Responders and Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinics (CCBHCs): SAMHSA’s GAINS Center Criminal Justice Learning Collaboratives (prainc.com) (a year-long learning/implementation cohort). Funds available for “establishing and strengthening partnerships among law enforcement and other first responder entities and CCBHCs at the local level, with a focus on providing first law enforcement-friendly options for addressing the acute needs of people who are in mental health crises.”

BJA Justice and Mental health collaboration Program

The Justice and Mental Health Collaboration Program (JMHCP) supports innovative cross-system collaboration to improve public safety responses and outcomes for individuals with mental health disorders or co-occurring mental health and substance use disorders.

Through the FY 2024 JMHCP funding opportunity, the Bureau of Justice Assistance provides grant funding to help organizations prepare, create, or expand comprehensive plans and then implement these collaborative projects to target people who qualify.

JMHCP awards will have a focus on pretrial, prosecution, courts, probation/parole, and addressing the needs directly related to the criminal activity of adults with mental health conditions, living in homelessness or marginalized communities with minimal access to treatment, needing wrap around services, in the criminal justice system and leaving incarceration.

If you are interested in applying here are some additional resources.

Other Opportunities

If you have new opportunities to share with our members, please email Vanessa Martin, Managing Director, at director@croawa.org.