Grants to Develop and Expand Behavioral Health Treatment Court Collaboratives (Short Title Adult Treatment Court Collaboratives) | Apply Online

Opportunity Information: Apply for TI 11 010

• The Substance Abuse Mental Health Services Adminis. in the health sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Grants to Develop and Expand Behavioral Health Treatment Court Collaboratives (Short Title Adult Treatment Court Collaboratives)" and is now available to receive applicants.
• Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 93.243 Substance Abuse and Mental Health ServicesProjects of Regional and National Significance.
• This funding opportunity was created on Apr 9, 2011 and posted on Apr 9, 2011.
• Applicants must submit their applications by Jun 6, 2011. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2024.)
• The funding agency has allocated a total of $4,400,000.00 to eligible and selected applicants.
• Each selected applicant is eligible to receive up to $400,000.00 in funding.
• The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 11 candidate(s).
• Eligible applicants include: Others (see text field entitled Additional Information on Eligibility for clarification).
• SAMHSA is restricting eligibility to operational individual misdemeanor or felony adult criminal courts, family/child dependency courts, or their Tribal/State or local governmental proxies who may apply on their behalf. Therefore, in addition to direct application by an individual misdemeanor or felony adult criminal court or a family/child dependency court, units of Tribal/State/local government such as the Tribal Court Administrator, the Administrative Office of the Courts, the Single State Agency for Alcohol and Drug Abuse, the State Mental Health Services Agency, the designated State Drug Court Coordinator, or local governmental unit such as the county or city agency with direct involvement with the identified adult criminal court or family/child dependency court may apply on behalf of an individual court. When the State, Tribal, or local unit of government is the applicant, all awarded grant funds must be dedicated to the local behavioral health treatment court Collaborative with the exception of a small set aside, not to exceed two percent of the total award, that is permissible to cover the costs of administration and oversight of the grant. This grant program is not intended to provide start up funds to create new problem solving courts (e.g., drug courts, mental health courts, DUI/DWI Courts, Veterans Treatment Courts, Co Occurring Courts, Re entry Courts etc.) or maintain existing courts, but to link existing court and community entities in a behavioral health treatment court collaborative. Start up and implementation of problem solving courts is time consuming and does not fit within the 3 year grant cycle. Therefore, in order to meet the eligibility requirements of an operational criminal court or family/child dependency court, the applicant court must be operational for at least one year at the time of application. Operational is defined as a judge being designated to a court with a docket of specific cases and seeing defendants on a regular and recurring basis for at least a year prior to the submission of the grant application. By signing the application form SF 424 the applicant certifies that the applicant adult criminal court or family/child dependency court meets the definition of an operational court. Additionally, while an operational individual adult criminal court or family/child dependency court must apply as the lead agency for these court collaboratives, the proposed Behavioral Health Treatment Court Collaborative must consist of at least the applicant court at the local level (municipality, city/town, county) and at least one other problem solving court or court based diversion process (e.g., screening process, jail diversion, sequential intercept model, mental health, co occurring court, reentry court) that addresses behavioral health conditions or a commitment by the applicant court to implement such a behavioral health court or court based diversion process. If an applicant proposes a Behavioral Health Treatment Court Collaborative that links to other courts, court diversion processes, or justice programs that are planned but not already in place, the applicant must demonstrate the ability to fund and implement such court or court diversion programs within six months of grant award. For example, in their application a felony criminal court may propose to use recently awarded Bureau of Justice Assistance drug court implementation grant funds to administer a newly proposed problem solving court docket and use the SAMHSA funds for treatment expansion and systems transformation activities indicated in this solicitation. As the purpose of this grant program is not to fund start up court activities or support existing administration of justice/court activities, you must provide documentation, in Attachment 6 of your application, that funding has already been secured for any administration of justice activities such as the staffing and operation of court programs.

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