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This $550,000 Project Grant award from the Department of Justice's Bureau of Justice Assistance under the Criminal and Juvenile Justice and Mental Health Collaboration Program (CFDA 16.745) will allow County of Rockingham in Virginia to expand the Rockingham Harrisonburg Justice and Mental Health Collaboration (RHJMHC) program. The program aims to divert individuals with mental health disorders or co-occurring mental health and substance use disorders from incarceration by enhancing crisis...

This $400,000 Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Justice's Congressionally Recommended Awards program (CFDA 16.753) will enable the Hampton-Newport News Community Services Board (H-NNCSB) to establish a Traumatic Event Response Team to serve citizens in the Hampton and Newport News, Virginia communities. The funding will support the addition of a part-time Mobile Crisis Therapist and a full-time Community Outreach Specialist to the existing Community Outreach program. This...

The U.S. Department of Justice's Office for Victims of Crime awarded a $499,973 cooperative agreement to Samuel Merritt University (SMU) to implement the "Health Bridge" program. The primary activities of the Health Bridge program include: Educating future healthcare practitioners in culturally responsive and trauma-informed care for victims of gender-based violence and human trafficking, in partnership with MISSSEY and Highland Hospital. Creating custom simulation-based learning...

The Mount Sinai Adolescent Health Center (MSAHC) will receive $950,000 under a three-year Project Grant from the Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs Victims of Crime. The grant falls under the Services for Trafficking Victims program (CFDA 16.320), which aims to develop, expand, or strengthen victim service programs for victims of trafficking. MSAHC will use the funding to create an autonomous program for 100 youth victims of human trafficking annually. The program will provide...

The Essex County Sheriff's Department (ECSD), in collaboration with Volunteers of America Massachusetts (VOAMASS), received a $550,000 Project Grant award under the U.S. Department of Justice's Criminal and Juvenile Justice and Mental Health Collaboration Program (CFDA 16.745). This 3-year grant, beginning October 1, 2023, will expand the Essex Mental Health Diversion Program (EMHDP) to serve 250 eligible pre-trial inmates in Essex County. The project will implement a comprehensive,...

Okanogan Behavioral Healthcare was awarded $733,041 under the Section 223 Demonstration Programs to Improve Community Mental Health Services grant program by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration to expand behavioral health and clubhouse services in Okanogan County, Washington from February 2021 through October 2021. Specifically, the funding will allow Okanogan Behavioral Healthcare to increase access to counseling, case management, life skills training, treatment,...

The California Department of Health Care Services received a $7.42 million Project Grant from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) Center for Mental Health Services under the Mental Health Disaster Assistance and Emergency Mental Health program (CFDA 93.982). The award, effective May 19, 2025, through May 20, 2026, funds the delivery of crisis counseling assistance and training services to individuals and communities affected by major disasters and declared...

Comprehensive Mental Health Services, Inc. (CMHS) received a $2,467,666 Project Grant award from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) under the Block Grants for Community Mental Health Services program (CFDA 93.958). CMHS will provide comprehensive community mental health services targeting approximately 4,900 individuals annually in the Kansas City, Missouri area who struggle with serious mental illness, substance use disorders, homelessness, poverty and...

ENGAGE Eastern North Carolina: Capacity Expansion East Carolina University received a $1.5 million Project Grant from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) Center for Substance Abuse Treatment under the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Projects of Regional and National Significance program (CFDA 93.243) effective September 30, 2025, through September 29, 2028. The award supports the ENGAGE Eastern North Carolina: Capacity Expansion (ENGAGE ENC: CE)...

The City of Harrisonburg, Virginia was awarded a $550,000 Project Grant from the U.S. Department of Justice's Bureau of Justice Assistance (CFDA 16.745 Criminal and Juvenile Justice and Mental Health Collaboration Program) to implement the Harrisonburg Police Department Mental Health Diversion Project (HPD MHDP). The primary goals of the project are to: 1) Improve the diversion of individuals with mental health disorders (MHDs) or co-occurring mental health and substance use disorders (MHSUDs)...