Mental Health
FY25 Law Enforcement Mental Health and Wellness Act (LEMHWA) Implementation Projects
LEMHWA funds are used to improve the delivery of and access to mental health and wellness services for law enforcement officers through the implementation of peer support, training, family resources, suicide prevention, and other promising practices for wellness programs.
BJA FY25 Veterans Treatment Court Discretionary Grant Program
This funding opportunity seeks to assist states, state courts, local courts, units of local government, and federally recognized Indian tribal governments to plan, implement, and enhance the operations of veterans treatment courts (VTC) including service coordination, fidelity to the VTC model, and recovery support services. VTCs effectively integrate evidence-based substance use disorder (SUD) treatment; mental health disorder (MHD) treatment; treatment for co-occurring disorders, including those with a history of violence; and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and/or traumatic brain injury (TBI) as a result of their military service.
Second Chance Act Community-based Reentry Program
This funding opportunity seeks to support organizations and tribal governments providing comprehensive reentry services to individuals who have been incarcerated.
BJA FY25 National Initiatives: Justice and Mental Health Training and Technical Assistance Program
This funding opportunity seeks to fund training and technical assistance (TTA) programs for three national initiatives supporting justice and mental health programs. Categories include collaborative crisis response and intervention training program TTA; Law enforcement behavioral health response program TTA; and Justice and mental health collaboration program TTA.
FY25 Improving Adult and Youth Crisis Stabilization and Community Reentry Program
This funding opportunity supports cross-system collaboration between criminal and juvenile justice agencies, mental health and substance use agencies, community-based organizations that provide reentry services, and community-based behavioral health providers. The goal of this program is to improve clinical stabilization pretrial, during confinement, and support continuity of care and recovery during the transition to the community through clinical and other evidence-based activities or services for individuals with serious mental illness, substance use disorders, and co-occurring disorders. In addition, this funding seeks to minimize the potential for experiencing crisis and improve recovery outcomes for people with serious mental illness, substance use disorders, and co-occurring disorders who are currently involved with the criminal or juvenile justice systems or reentering the community from these systems.
Safer Outcomes: Enhancing De-Escalation and Crisis Response Training for Law Enforcement – Support for Law Enforcement Agencies
This competitive grant program seeks to promote safe outcomes during police encounters with persons in crisis through training in de-escalation tactics, crisis intervention team participation, and safely responding to an individual experiencing a mental or behavioral health or suicidal crisis
Safer Outcomes: Enhancing De-Escalation and Crisis Response Training for Law Enforcement – Expansion of Regional De-Escalation Training Centers
This competitive grant program supports training centers seeking to provide de-escalation and crisis response training for law enforcement in a multistate region.
Safer Outcomes: Enhancing De-Escalation and Crisis Response Training for Law Enforcement – Curriculum Integration for Law Enforcement Academies and State-Level Training Commissions
This competitive grant program supports law enforcement academy programs that integrate de-escalation and crisis response concepts throughout a curriculum of instruction used to train sworn officer candidates, as well as efforts that integrate de-escalation and crisis response concepts throughout the development of statewide law enforcement training standards.
Lethal Means Safety Suicide Prevention Research in Healthcare and Community Settings
This program provides funding to evaluate the preliminary effectiveness of therapeutic and service delivery interventions that utilize lethal means safety strategies to reduce suicide risk in healthcare and community settings.
Project AWARE (Advancing Wellness and Resiliency in Education)
The purpose of Project AWARE is to develop a sustainable infrastructure for schoolbased mental health programs and services. It is expected that the recipient will build a collaborative partnership that includes the State Education Agency, the Local Education Agency, Tribal Education Agency, the State Mental Health Agency, community-based providers of behavioral health care services, school personnel, community organizations, families, and school-aged youth. Based on a public health model, this partnership will implement mental health related promotion, awareness, prevention, intervention, and resilience activities to ensure that students have access and are connected to appropriate and effective behavioral health services. SAMHSA expects that this program will promote the healthy social and emotional development of school-aged youth and prevent youth violence in school settings.
988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline Administrator grants
The purpose of this program is to serve as the 988 Lifeline Administrator and manage, enhance, and strengthen the 988 Lifeline. The 988 Lifeline Administrator will maintain a robust network of crisis contact centers, implement, and oversee the national standards of care and quality to ensure that everyone who contacts the 988 Lifeline receives access to skilled, caring, culturally competent crisis counselors.
National Child Traumatic Stress Initiative (NCTSI)
The NCTSI program funds treatment and services for children, adolescents, and families who have experienced traumatic events and also provides learning materials and resources on their website.
Project 2025
Project 2025 is a set of resources from the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention aimed at reducing the annual rate of suicide by 20 percent by 2025. The website provides guidance and resources in four areas of intervention, one of which is firearms.
National Institutes of Health research
The National Institutes of Health provides grant funding for research into firearms violence prevention. Funding opportunities can be found on the NIH’s searchable website
Children’s Safety Network Program
The Children’s Safety Network program supports state agencies that seek to reduce child injury hospitalizations and deaths, including from firearms.
American Rescue Plan’s Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief Fund (ESSER)
The American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (ARPA) included nearly $122 billion in resources for state education agencies and local education agencies through the ESSER Fund. State and local education agencies can use these funds for a range of evidence-based strategies that reduce violence and increase public safety, including community violence intervention (CVI) programs; summer and year-round programs that provide job training and work-based learning experience for students, including formerly incarcerated students, and disconnected youth who live in communities most impacted by high levels of violence; summer education and enrichment programs, including summer camp; wraparound services—such as medical care, mental health and substance use disorder care, and nutrition support—for students and their families, including hiring support personnel for schools; and more.
National Center on Safe and Supportive Learning Environments (NCSSLE)
This technical assistance resource provides training and technical assistance to schools, school districts, and educational agencies to support efforts aimed at creating and nurturing safe and supportive learning environments.
Readiness and Emergency Management for Schools (REMS) Technical Assistance Center
This technical assistance resource is the nation’s higher ed and K-12 school safety, security, and emergency management and preparedness hub for information and services (e.g., guidance, training, tools, resources). the walk-through and safety inspection of campus and buildings.
Federal Partners in Student Health Resource Hub
This technical assistance resource serves as a portal where K-12 schools, school districts, state education agencies, and other stakeholders can access high quality federal and federally supported information, resources, and research that support student physical and mental health.
Trauma Recovery Demonstration Grant Program
This program provides competitive grants to state education associations to support model programs that enable a student from a low-income family who has experienced trauma that negatively affects the student’s educational experience to access the trauma-specific mental-health services from the provider that best meet the student’s needs.
School-Based Mental Health Services Grant Program
This program provides competitive grants to State educational agencies, local educational agencies, and LEA consortia to increase the number of credentialed mental health services providers providing school-based mental health services to students in LEAs with demonstrated need.
Project SERV
This competitive grant program funds short-term education-related services for local educational agencies and institutions of higher education to help them recover from a violent or traumatic event in which the learning environment has been disrupted.
School Climate Transformation Grant—State Educational Agency Program
This program provides competitive grants to State educational agencies to develop, enhance, or expand systems of support for, and technical assistance to, local educational agencies and schools implementing an evidence-based, multi-tiered behavioral framework for improving behavioral outcomes and learning conditions for all students.
Youth Justice and Mental Health Collaboration Program
This competitive grant program provides funds to increase public safety by facilitating cross-system collaboration among youth justice, mental health, and substance use treatment agencies to improve response and outcomes for justice-involved youth with mental health disorders and co-occurring mental health and substance use disorders.