Project Grant 15PBJA21GG03934NTCP

The City of Milwaukee Police Department was awarded a $250,000 Project Grant from the Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs Bureau of Justice Assistance under the Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant Program to develop an Advanced Crisis Intervention Team training program. Through this funding, the MPD will partner with Milwaukee County Behavioral Health Services to provide over 100 police officers with enhanced skills to effectively respond to behavioral health calls and...

This Cooperative Agreement 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) will provide $800,000 to establish the Mid-Atlantic Regional De-Escalation and Crisis Response Training Center (MARC) and deliver a comprehensive regional training initiative. The National Center for Policing Innovation (NCPI), in partnership with CIT International, Inc., will...

The City of Tarrant Police Department in Birmingham, Alabama will receive $150,000 through a three-year Project Grant from the Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs Bureau of Justice Assistance. The grant funds the development and implementation of a crisis response training program for the city under the Criminal and Juvenile Justice and Mental Health Collaboration Program (CFDA 16.745). The goal of the Justice and Mental Health Collaboration Program is to improve public safety...

The Municipality of Bayamon of Puerto Rico received a $240,000 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 grant will be used to develop and implement a specialized 40-hour training program for the Bayamon Municipal Police Force, focusing on crisis intervention, de-escalation tactics, and effective responses to individuals...

The Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs Bureau of Justice Assistance awarded $549,254 to the Escambia County Sheriff's Office through the Criminal and Juvenile Justice and Mental Health Collaboration Program (CFDA 16.745) to establish a co-responder program. The Escambia County Sheriff's Office will partner with Lakeview Center, Inc. to deploy three specialty trained deputy sheriffs paired with two mental health clinicians across three co-responder teams. The co-responder teams will...

The City of Tulsa Police Department was awarded a $550,000 Project Grant from the Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs Bureau of Justice Assistance to design and implement a Police-Mental Health Collaboration model. The grant was awarded under the Criminal and Juvenile Justice and Mental Health Collaboration Program (CFDA #16.745) to support cross-system collaboration to improve public safety responses and outcomes for individuals with mental health disorders. Under the award, the...

The Miami-Dade County Police Department (MDPD) received a $550,000 Project Grant award 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 "Connect and Protect: Law Enforcement Behavioral Health Response Program." The 36-month project aims to improve public safety responses and outcomes for individuals with mental health disorders or co-occurring mental health and...

The Jefferson County Commission was awarded a $149,897 Project Grant from the Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs Bureau of Justice Assistance. The grant was awarded under the Criminal and Juvenile Justice and Mental Health Collaboration Program (CFDA 16.745) to support the BJA FY21 Collaborative Crisis Response Training Program. The training program will provide cross-system collaboration and improve public safety responses for individuals with mental health disorders or...

The City of New Orleans Health Department was awarded a $750,000 Project Grant from the Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs Bureau of Justice Assistance under the Criminal and Juvenile Justice and Mental Health Collaboration Program (CFDA 16.745) to support the Alternative Dispatch Initiative. Resources for Human Development will receive a subaward to implement a crisis call center management software system and convene a Crisis Stabilization Task Force to coordinate behavioral...

This $255,000 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) will fund the Town of South Kingstown, Rhode Island to implement a Countywide Co-Responder Team (CRT) in partnership with the Providence Center behavioral health organization and Thundermist Health Center. The CRT model embeds a full-time behavioral health clinician to respond to calls with CIT-trained police officers...