Assistance program
Strengthening the Medical Examiner - Coroner System
$7.6 Million committed in FY2021–FY2026
- Agency
- Ojp Bureau of Justice Assistance, Justice, Department of
- Assistance
- Not Applicable
- CFDA number
- 16.037
- What it does
- The goals of the Strengthening the Medical Examiner-Coroner System Program are: • Purpose Area 1: Forensic Pathology Fellowships—Increase the number of qualified forensic pathology practitioners. • Purpose Area 2: Medical Examiner-Coroner Office Accreditation—Strengthen the quality and consistency of ME/C services in their respective offices, thereby increasing public trust in these services. BJA expects applicants to clearly identify the purpose area to which they are applying. If applicants request funds from both purpose areas, they must submit a separate application for each purpose area. Objectives: Purpose Area 1: Forensic Pathology Fellowships—Recruit quality candidates who have completed all of the necessary medical education and pathology residency requirements by soliciting applications from institutions with current Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) accredited forensic pathology fellowship programs. Purpose Area 2: Medical Examiner-Coroner Office Accreditation—Ensure that agencies performing postmortem examinations are following industry and professional standards and performance criteria. Performance Measure 1: The number of participants who completed forensic pathology fellowship training under the Strengthening the Medical Examiner-Coroner System Program; and, Performance Measure 2: Number of individuals who obtained accreditation from an appropriate medical examiner-coroner accrediting agency using Strengthening the Medical Examiner-Coroner System Program funding during the reporting period.
- Who benefits
- Not Applicable
- Who applies
- City or township governments • County governments • For profit organizations other than small businesses • Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized) • Native American tribal organizations (other than Federally recognized tribal governments) • Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education • Nonprofits that do not have a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education • Private institutions of higher education • Public and State controlled institutions of higher education • Special district governments, and • State governments
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* 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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