Opportunity Information: Apply for SM 18 005
This funding opportunity, titled Grants to Establish and Expand Jail Diversion (Funding Opportunity Number SM-18-005; CFDA 93.243), was offered by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services through SAMHSA's Center for Mental Health Services as a discretionary grant program. It was designed for fiscal year 2018 under the Law Enforcement and Behavioral Health Partnerships for Early Diversion initiative. Applications opened January 5, 2018, and were originally due March 5, 2018. SAMHSA anticipated making about 8 awards, with an award ceiling of $330,000 per grant.
The core goal of the program is to help communities build or expand "early diversion" models that steer adults with serious mental illness (SMI) or co-occurring mental health and substance use disorders (COD) away from the criminal justice system and into community-based treatment and supports before arrest and booking occur. In practical terms, the grant is aimed at interventions that happen at the front end of law enforcement contact, when officers or first responders encounter someone in crisis or exhibiting symptoms of mental illness, and can connect that person to appropriate services instead of moving immediately to detention. The program also notes that special consideration would be given to proposals that use grant funding to strengthen early diversion services specifically for veterans, reflecting concern about veterans being overrepresented in crisis and justice-system touchpoints and the importance of linking them to tailored supports.
SAMHSA frames the need for these grants around well-documented data showing that mental disorders are common among people who come into contact with police, jails, and prisons. The opportunity cites U.S. Department of Justice statistics indicating that 14 percent of state and federal prisoners and 26 percent of jail inmates reported experiences meeting the threshold for serious psychological distress. It also highlights estimates that roughly a quarter of a million people with serious mental illnesses are incarcerated at any given time, and that about half of those arrests are for non-violent, low-level offenses such as trespassing or disorderly conduct. The implication is that many of these justice encounters are driven by unmet treatment needs, lack of crisis supports, or gaps in community services, rather than criminal intent, and that diversion can reduce unnecessary incarceration while improving health and public safety outcomes.
A major emphasis in the announcement is that diversion does not work well as a standalone tactic; it depends on strong, clearly defined, and sustainable partnerships between law enforcement agencies and behavioral health and community service providers. The opportunity points applicants toward established field frameworks, noting that building collaborative partnerships is the first of four core strategies in the International Association of Chiefs of Police One Mind Campaign and aligns with the first element of the Crisis Intervention Team (CIT) model's ten core elements. In effect, SAMHSA is signaling that successful applicants should show real coordination between police departments, crisis services, mental health providers, substance use treatment providers, and other community resources, with agreed-upon roles, referral pathways, and procedures that can function beyond the grant period.
Eligibility is listed broadly as "Others" with additional clarification expected in the full eligibility text, but the intent of the program suggests it targets entities capable of convening and operating cross-system partnerships, such as local governments, law enforcement agencies working with behavioral health authorities, or community-based organizations that can formalize agreements with police and treatment providers. Overall, the grant opportunity is about shifting responses to behavioral health crises away from jail and toward timely, community-based care by investing in the coordination, protocols, and service connections needed to make diversion happen early and consistently.Apply for SM 18 005
- The Department of Health and Human Services, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Adminis in the health sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Grants to Establish and Expand Jail Diversion" and is now available to receive applicants.
- Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 93.243.
- This funding opportunity was created on Jan 05, 2018.
- Applicants must submit their applications by Mar 05, 2018. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
- Each selected applicant is eligible to receive up to $330,000.00 in funding.
- The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 8 candidate(s).
- Eligible applicants include: Others (see text field entitled Additional Information on Eligibility for clarification).
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