Assistance program
Comprehensive Opioid, Stimulant, and other Substances Use Program
$1.0 Billion committed in FY2018–FY2026
- Agency
- Office of Justice Programs, Justice, Department of
- Assistance
- Cooperative Agreements;Project Grants
- CFDA number
- 16.838
- What it does
- Goal: The Comprehensive Opioid, Stimulant, and other Substances Use Program (COSSUP), formerly COSSAP, was developed as part of the Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act (CARA) legislation. COSSUP’s goal is to provide financial and technical assistance to states, units of local government, and Indian tribal governments to develop, implement, or expand comprehensive efforts to identify, respond to, treat, and support those impacted by illicit opioids, stimulants, and other drugs of use. Objective: To address this goal, the COSSUP program, administered by BJA, provides funding through a competitive grant program to encourage and support comprehensive cross-system planning and collaboration among officials who work in law enforcement, pretrial services, the courts, probation and parole, child welfare, reentry, emergency medical services and healthcare providers, public health partners, and agencies who provide substance misuse treatment and recovery support services. Performance Measure 1: Percentage of COSSUP grantees who are using grant funds to operate diversion programs; Performance Measure 2: Number of individuals who have received naloxone training; Performance Measure 3: Number of individuals referred to substance use or co-occurring treatment; Performance Measure 4: Number of individuals referred recovery support services; and Performance Measure 5: Percentage of grantees using COSSSUP funds for medication-assisted treatment.
- Who benefits
- U.S. Territories, Individual/Family, Anyone/general public, State, persons with substance use disorder, persons with alcohol use disorder, Local, Other public institution/organization, Federally Recognized Native American Tribal Governments Program aims to plan and implement comprehensive strategies in response to the growing national overdose epidemic.
- Who applies
- Local (includes Federally Recognized Native American Tribal Governments, excludes institutions of higher education and hospitals), U.S. Territories, State For TTA - eligible applicants are limited to for-profit (commercial) organizations, nonprofit organizations (including tribal nonprofit and for-profit organizations), and institutions of higher education (including tribal institutions of higher education) that have experience delivering training and technical assistance nationwide. For-profit organizations must agree to forgo any profit or management fee. Applicants are encouraged to submit an application that demonstrates a thorough understanding of the diverse training and technical assistance needs of communities and states attempting to plan and implement comprehensive strategies in response to the growing opioid epidemic.
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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