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.

Enhancing School Capacity To Address Youth Violence

This competitive grant program supports targeted efforts to address youth violence through implementing evidence-based prevention and intervention efforts in a school-based setting (K–12th grade only).

Collaborative Reform Initiative Technical Assistance Center (CRI_TAC)

This competitive grant program provides funds to state, local and tribal law enforcement and correctional entities to develop and implement crisis response training programs and form partnerships with mental health, substance abuse disorder, and community service agencies to improve appropriate and effective responses to individuals in crisis who have behavioral health conditions, intellectual disabilities, developmental disabilities, or physical disabilities and to achieve safe outcomes for all individuals in the community.

Mass Violence Advisory Initiative (MVAI)

The MVAI is a collaboration between the BJA and the International Association of Chiefs of Police that provides peer-to-peer assistance to law enforcement leaders related to preparation, response and recovery efforts for mass violence and mass casualty events.

Connect and Protect: Law Enforcement Behavioral Health Response Program

This competitive grant program supports law enforcement–behavioral health cross-system collaboration to improve public health and safety as well as responses to and outcomes for individuals with mental health disorders or co-occurring mental health and substance use disorders.

Improving Adult and Youth Crisis Stabilization and Community Reentry Program

This competitive grant program provides funding to state, local, and tribal governments, as well as community-based nonprofit organizations, to enhance or implement clinical services and other evidence-based activities or services to improve reentry, reduce recidivism, and address the treatment and recovery needs of people with mental health, substance use, or co-occurring disorders who are currently involved in the criminal justice system or were formerly involved.

Justice and Mental Health Collaboration Program (JMHCP)

This competitive grant program supports collaboration across criminal justice and mental health systems to improve public safety responses to individuals with mental illness, or with co-occurring mental illness and substance abuse.

School Climate Transformation Grant—Local Educational Agency program

This program provides competitive grants to local educational agencies to develop, enhance, or expand systems of support for, and technical assistance to, schools implementing a multi-tiered system of support, for improving school climate. by using evidence-based efforts that are designed to foster safety; promote supportive academic, disciplinary, and physical environments; and/or encourage and maintain respectful, trusting, and caring relationships throughout the school community.

Mental Health Service Professional Demonstration Grant Program

This program provides competitive grants to support and demonstrate innovative partnerships to train school-based mental health service providers for employment in schools and local educational agencies.

STOP School Violence Program

This competitive grant program aims to support school safety by implementing solutions to enhance school climate, establish school-based behavioral threat assessment and intervention teams to identify violence risks, introduce technologies like anonymous reporting tools, and apply other evidence-based strategies to prevent violence. The goal is to equip K–12 students, teachers, and staff with tools to recognize, respond to, and prevent acts of violence.

Byrne Discretionary Grants Program

This program provides Congressionally-earmarked funds to improve the functioning of the criminal justice system and to combat juvenile delinquency.

Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant (JAG) Program – Local Awards

The JAG Program is the leading source of federal criminal justice grant funding to state and local jurisdictions, providing providing formula-based funding for a broad range of program areas.

Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant (JAG) Program – State Awards

The JAG Program is the leading source of federal criminal justice grant funding for state and local jurisdictions, providing formula-based funding for a broad range of program areas.

Collaborative Crisis Response and Intervention Training Program

This competitive grant program seeks to support state, local, and tribal law enforcement and correctional entities to develop and implement crisis response training programs.