Assistance program
Missing Alzheimer's Disease Patient Assistance Program
$12.8 Million committed in FY2018–FY2026
- Agency
- Office of Justice Programs, Justice, Department of
- Assistance
- Cooperative Agreements
- CFDA number
- 16.015
- What it does
- The goal of the program is to support local jurisdictions’ efforts to reduce the number of deaths and injuries of individuals with forms of dementia such as Alzheimer’s disease or developmental disabilities such as autism who, due to their condition, wander from safe environments, through the implementation of proactive programs and the acquisition of locative technology. Projects should accomplish one or both program objectives: Objective 1: Design, establish, or operate holistic, locally based, proactive programs to locate or prevent the wandering of individuals with forms of dementia such as Alzheimer’s Disease or developmental disabilities such as autism who, due to their condition, wander from safe environments. Objective 2: Purchase, develop, or implement locally based tracking technology for individuals with forms of dementia such as Alzheimer’s Disease or developmental disabilities such as autism who, due to their condition, wander from safe environments. Performance Measure 1: Number of vulnerable individuals provided locative tracking devices; and, Performance Measure 2: Number of first responders, school personnel, clinicians and members of the public that received grant-funded training.
- Who benefits
- All funds must be focused solely on initiatives to support individuals, and families of individuals, with forms of dementia, such as Alzheimer's disease, or developmental disabilities, such as autism, who are likely to wander.
- Who applies
- Eligible entities are as follows: Health care agencies; State or local law enforcement, tribal law enforcement, or other public safety agencies; Federally recognized Indian tribal governments that perform public safety activities; Nonprofit organizations (including tribal nonprofit) with preference given to nonprofits that work with such entities in planning, designing, establishing, or operating locally based proactive programs to locate and prevent the wandering of missing individuals with forms of dementia such as Alzheimer’s disease or developmental disabilities such as autism who, due to their condition, wander from safe environments.
- Authorized by
- 34 U.S.C. § 12621
- The Missing Americans Alert Program of 2017 U.S.C. § 34 U.S.C. 12621
- Public Law 117-328
- Program site
- http://www.bja.gov ↗
Committed by fiscal year
* FY2026 is year-to-date — the fiscal year is still in progress, so its total is still filling in. The striped band and dashed line mark that provisional stretch.
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