Block Grant 2020VDBX0643

This Project Grant award of $199,988 from the U.S. Department of Justice's Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS Office) under the Public Safety Partnership and Community Policing Grants program (CFDA 16.710) will enable the Winnebago County Sheriff's Office to implement an officer wellness program. The funding will be used to hire a full-time clinician to provide one-on-one mental health counseling for officers to address work-related stress, trauma, and other concerns. The...

The Cook County Sheriff's Department (CCSD) in Chicago, Illinois will receive $1.1 million under a Project Grant award from the Department of Justice's Bureau of Justice Assistance to enhance reentry services for detainees leaving incarceration. The grant funding, provided through the Second Chance Act Reentry Initiative program (CFDA 16.812), will be used to expand CCSD's performance-based and outcomes-based contracts with Treatment Alternatives for Safe Communities (TASC) to provide...

The County of Mississippi Sheriff's Office received a $58,007 block grant award from the Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs Bureau of Justice Assistance under the Coronavirus Emergency Supplemental Funding Program (CESF Program, CFDA 16.034) to fund protective equipment and supplies. The grant period runs from January 20, 2020 through January 31, 2022. The CESF Program aims to help state and local criminal justice agencies prevent, prepare for, and respond to the coronavirus...

The County of Miami was awarded a $375,000 Project Grant under the Public Safety Partnership and Community Policing Grants program (CFDA 16.710), administered by the U.S. Department of Justice's Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS Office). The anticipated outcomes of this CHP (COPS Hiring Program) award include increased community policing capacity and crime prevention efforts through planned community partnerships, implementation of projects to analyze and assess problems,...

The U.S. Department of Justice's Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS Office) awarded a $200,000 Project Grant under the Public Safety Partnership and Community Policing Grants program (CFDA 16.710) to the County of Ulster, New York. The funding will be used by the Ulster County Sheriff's Office to expand and coordinate its existing wellness unit, with the goal of serving the wellness needs of the entire first responder community in the county. The program will leverage the FBI...

The Sumter County Sheriff's Office was awarded a $146,880 Project Grant from the U.S. Department of Justice's Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS Office) under the Public Safety Partnership and Community Policing Grants program (CFDA 16.710). The funding will be used to expand the mental health and wellness services offered to both sworn and civilian employees of the Sheriff's Office. Key initiatives include providing speaking events with a renowned speaker on officer mental...

The Department of Justice Offices Boards and Divisions Community Oriented Policing Program awarded $507,400 to Herscher Community Unit School District under the Public Safety Partnership and Community Policing Grants program (CFDA 16.710) from October 1, 2022 to September 30, 2025. The funding will support the School Violence Prevention Program to improve security at schools and on school grounds through school safety programs and technology. Specifically, the school district will implement...

The Buncombe County Sheriff's Office (BCSO) received a $400,000 Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Justice's Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS Office) under the Public Safety Partnership and Community Policing Grants program (CFDA 16.710). The grant will be used to enhance the county's co-responder program, which aims to provide timely and effective responses to behavioral health crises by integrating additional behavioral health clinicians into crisis response...

The County of Riverside Sheriff's Department was awarded a $1,000,000 Project Grant from the Department of Justice's Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) Office under the Public Safety Partnership and Community Policing Grants program. The grant will support the COPS Hiring Program and allow the Sheriff's Department to enhance public safety and community trust through collaborative problem solving and organizational strategies that systematically promote community partnerships from...

This federal Project Grant award of $333,124.00 from the U.S. Department of Justice's Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS Office) under the Public Safety Partnership and Community Policing Grants program (CFDA 16.710) will enable the Franklin County Sheriff's Office to implement an intensive training program to promote safer outcomes during police encounters. The training will focus on de-escalation techniques, crisis intervention, and management of situations involving...