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Fiscal Year 2011 Justice and Mental
Health Collaboration Program
Competitive Grant Announcement
Rebecca Rose, Policy Advisor
Chris Casto, Program Specialist
Presentation outline:
• Overview of JMHCP
• Review of FY11 Solicitation
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Eligibility
Focus on Evidence Based Practices
Target Population
Grant Categories
Performance Measures
Program Narrative
Budget
Other Attachments
• Grants.gov
• Additional Important Information & Resources
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Overview of JMHCP
• Purpose of program: Increase public safety
through innovative cross-system collaboration for
individuals with mental illness or co-occurring
mental health and substance abuse disorders.
• The JMHCP is authorized by the Mentally Ill
Offender Treatment and Crime Reduction Act (PL
108-414) and the Mentally Ill Offender Treatment
and Crime Reduction Reauthorization and
Improvement Act (PL 110-416).
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Overview of JMHCP
• Program Uses:
• Providing appropriate services for system-involved individuals
with mental illnesses
• Providing specialized training programs for criminal justice and
mental health personnel.
• Improving law enforcement strategies to respond to individuals
with mental illnesses.
• Making available diversion options such as mental health
courts, alternative prosecution and sentencing programs, pretrial services, or other court-based programs.
• Providing transitional services for those with mental illnesses
who are incarcerated or reentering the community from a
correctional institution.
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Review of Solicitation
• The Fiscal Year 2011 solicitation can be accessed
through www.grants.gov (Announcement number:
BJA-2011-2861) or through BJA’s website at:
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/BJA/grant/JMHCprogram.
html.
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Review of Solicitation
Eligibility
• Applicants are limited to states, units of local
government, federally recognized Indian tribes and
tribal organizations.
• Each applicant must demonstrate that the proposed
project will be administered jointly by a criminal or
juvenile justice agency and a mental health agency.
• Only one agency is responsible for the submission of
the application in the Grants.gov. This lead agency
must be the state, unit of local government, federally
recognized Indian tribe, or tribal organization.
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Review of Solicitation
Eligibility
• A “criminal or juvenile justice agency” is defined as
an agency of state or local government that is
responsible for detection, arrest, enforcement,
prosecution, defense, adjudication, incarceration,
probation, or parole relating to the violation of the
criminal laws of that state or local government.
• A “mental health agency” is an agency of state or
local government or its contracted agency that is
responsible for mental health services or cooccurring mental health and substance abuse
services.
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Review of Solicitation
Target Population
Grant funds must be used to support a target
population that includes an adult or juvenile
accused of a nonviolent offense who:
• Has been diagnosed as having a mental illness or
co-occurring mental health and substance abuse
disorder.
• Has faced, is facing, or could face criminal charges
for a misdemeanor or nonviolent offense.
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Emphasis on Evidence-Based
Programs or Practices
• BJA intends to fund programs that have a
demonstrated evidence base and that are
appropriate for the target population.
• Priority consideration will be given to applicants
that consider the identified evidence-based
practices in the development or enhancement of
their program (see pages 5-6).
Emphasis on Evidence-Based
Programs or Practices
• Screening and Assessment Tools, Targeting
Criminogenic Needs and Functional Impairment,
Mental Health Treatment Services, and Housing,
Supported Employment, and Supported Education
• Under Project Design and Implementation in
proposals, applicants will be asked to address the
priority considerations and requirements
throughout their response to the section.
Review of Solicitation
Target Population
Per MIOTCRA, a nonviolent offense is an
offense that does not have as an element the
use, attempted use, or threatened use of
physical force against the person or property of
another or is not a felony that by its nature
involves a substantial risk that physical force
against the person or property of another may
be used in the course of committing the
offense.
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Target Population Considerations
Applicants are encouraged to take into consideration
additional targeted responses when making
decisions about the appropriate service response
for justice-involved individuals with mental
illnesses (page 7):
• Provision on Services for System-Involved Females
• Trauma-Informed Care
• Co-occurring disorders
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Grant Categories
Category I: Planning
• Funding amount: $50,000
• Project period: 12 Months
Category I applicants will design a strategic,
collaborative plan to initiate systemic change for
the identification and treatment of system-involved
individuals with mental illnesses or co-occurring
substance abuse disorders.
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Review of Solicitation
Grant Categories
Category II: Planning & Implementation
• Funding amount: $250,000
• Project period: 24 Months
Category II applicants will complete an alreadyinitiated strategic plan for the criminal justice and
mental health collaboration program, and then
begin implementation of the plan during the project
period.
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Grant Categories
Category III: Expansion
• Funding amount: $200,000
• Project period: 24 Months
Category III applicants will expand upon or
improve a well-established collaboration plan.
Applicants must clearly demonstrate an expansion
to the current functioning of an existing program.
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Review of Solicitation
Performance Measures
• Performance measures for the JMHCP are
included on pages 11-15 of the solicitation.
• Submission of performance measure data is not
required for the applications. All applicants must
discuss in their proposal their proposed methods
for collecting data for performance measures.
• Upon selection of the grantees, BJA will review the
measures to provide guidance on which measures
apply to your program.
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Review of Solicitation
Application Attachments
1. Information to Complete the Application for Federal
Assistance (SF-424)
2. Program Abstract
3. Program Narrative
4. Budget Detail Worksheet & Budget Narrative
5. Indirect Cost Rate Agreement (if applicable)
6. Tribal Authorizing Resolution (if applicable)
7. Additional Attachments: Project Timeline and
Memoranda of Understanding/Letters of Support
8. Other Standard Forms
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Program Narrative
• The program narrative must respond to the
following sections under Selection Criteria (page
21-24);
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Statement of the Problem
Project Design and Implementation
Capabilities and Competencies
Plan for Collecting the Data Required…
Plan for Measuring Program Success…
• Double-spaced, standard 12-point font, with 1 inch
margins; Page Limit for narrative: 15 pages
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Budget
• Applicants must submit a budget detail worksheet and a
budget narrative (page 19).
• For all applicants, include funding to support up to four staff
to attend a two-day grantee orientation meeting in
Washington, DC.
• For Category 2 and 3 applicants, additional travel costs
should be included to attend a BJA-sponsored national
meeting. Plan for two staff to attend a 3-day meeting in
Washington, DC.
• Category 2 and 3 applicants must set aside at least 5
percent of the budget in order to implement a data collection
plan. The plan should be described in the program narrative
under Selection Criteria 4.
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Budget
Match Requirement
• For all applicants, include the amount and source
of match funding in the budget.
• Federal funds awarded under this program may
not cover more than 80% of the total costs of the
project being funded. The applicant must identify
the source of the 20% non-federal portion of the
total project costs and how match funds will be
used. (See page 10 in the solicitation)
• Match can be in-kind or cash
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Budget
Budget Resources:
• Sample budget worksheet:
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/funding/forms/budget_det
ail.pdf
• OJP Financial Guide:
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/financialguide/index.htm
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Other Attachments
• Project Time and Task Plan – To include each
project goal, objective, activity, expected
completion date, and person responsible.
• Memoranda of Understanding/Letters of Support –
Include from co-applicants and collaborative
partners.
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Grants.gov
• The application must be submitted through Grants.gov.
Grants.gov is a unified process for all customers of federal awards
to find funding opportunities and apply for funding. Please refer to
pages 16-17 on How to Apply.
• Registering with Grants.gov is a one-time process, however
processing delays may occur and it can take up to several weeks
for first time registrants to receive confirmation and a user
password.
• Every organization who applies needs a DUNS number, and if
they do not have one, they should get one ASAP at:
www.dnb.com.
• Applicants should also be up to date on their CCR
(http://www.ccr.gov/). The CCR registration must be updated
annually to maintain an active status.
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Grants.gov
• Applicants are strongly urged to submit applications at
least 72 hours prior to the due date to allow time to
receive the proper validation message and to correct
any problems that may have caused a rejection
notification.
• Note: Grants.gov will forward the application to OJP’s
Grants Management System (GMS). GMS does not
accept executable file types as application
attachments. The disallowed file types include, but are
not limited to, the following extensions: “.com,” “.bat,”
“.exe,” “.vbs,” “.cfg,” “.dat,” “.db,” “.dbf,” “.dll,” “.ini,”
“.log,” “.ora,” “.sys,” and “.zip.”
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Additional Important Information
• Total available funding for the program is not yet
available.
• BJA anticipates approximately 50-60 awards will
be made in FY11.
• Deadline for submission:
• February 3, 2011 by 11:59 pm EST
• It is strongly encouraged that applicants submit the
application well in advance of the deadline.
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Resources
• FY2011 Solicitation:
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/BJA/grant/11JMHCSol.pdf
• Solicitation FAQs:
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/BJA/grant/11JMHCFAQ.pdf
• Information on JMHCP:
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/BJA/grant/JMHCprogram.html
• BJA Grant Writing and Management Academy:
http://bja.ncjrs.gov/gwma/index.html
• Council of State Governments Justice Center:
http://consensusproject.org/
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Questions
• For technical assistance with submitting the application,
contact the Grants.gov Customer Support Hotline at
800–518–4726 or via e-mail to [email protected].
The Grants.gov Support Hotline hours of operation are
24 hours a day, 7 days a week, except federal holidays.
• For assistance with any other requirement of this
solicitation, contact the BJA Justice Information
Center at 1–877–927–5657. The BJA Justice
Information Center hours of operation are 8:30 a.m. to
5:00 p.m. eastern time, Monday through Friday, and
8:30 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. eastern time on the solicitation
close date.
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