Assistance program
Criminal and Juvenile Justice and Mental Health Collaboration Program
$215.0 Million committed in FY2018–FY2026
- Agency
- Office of Justice Programs, Justice, Department of
- Assistance
- Project Grants
- CFDA number
- 16.745
- What it does
- Goal(s): The Justice and Mental Health Collaboration Program (JMHCP) supports cross-system collaboration to improve public safety responses and outcomes for individuals with mental health disorders (MHDs) or co-occurring mental health and substance use disorders (MHSUDs) MHSUDS who come into contact with the justice system. This program supports public safety efforts through partnerships with social services and other organizations that will enhance responses to people with Mental Health Disorders (MHDs) and Co-occurring Mental Health and Substance Use Disorders (MHSUDs). Objective(s): The Justice and Mental Health Collaboration Program offers grants to help entities prepare comprehensive plans to implement collaboration programs that target qualified offenders and promote public safety and public health. Specifically, per the authorizing statute, grants awarded under this program shall be used to create or expand: 1. Support cooperative efforts by public safety officials and service providers (at any point in the system) to connect individuals with MHDs or MHSUDs with treatment and social services 2. Develop mental health courts or other court-based programs 3. Offer specialized training for public safety officials and mental health providers in order to respond appropriately to individuals with MHDs or MHSUDs 4. Support intergovernmental cooperation between state and local governments to address enhanced support to individuals with MHDs MHSUDs. Additionally, the Collaborative Crisis Response and Intervention Training Program provides for transdisciplinary crisis response training to educate and prepare law enforcement and correctional officers so that they are equipped to appropriately interact with people who have mental illness, intellectual disabilities, or developmental disabilities in the course of completing their job responsibilities. Performance Measure 1: Percentage of individuals screened who are referred to treatment; and, Performance Measure 2: Number of individuals screened for mental health or co-occurring disorder.
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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- Committed through this program
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