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
credit:
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
Obtain Full Opportunity Text:https://bja.ojp.gov/funding/opportunities/o-bja-2021-121003
Additional Information of Eligibility:Other—correctional entities For 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
Full Opportunity Web Address:https://bja.ojp.gov/funding/opportunities/o-bja-2021-121003Contact: Agency Email Description: Technical Assistance
Agency Email: Date Posted: 2021-05-21
Application Due Date: Archive Date: 2021-07-25