Connect and Protect: Law Enforcement Behavioral Health Response Program
The Law Enforcement Behavioral Health Response Program provides funding to support law enforcement-behavioral health cross-system collaboration to improve public health and safety responses and outcomes for individuals with mental health disorders and co-occurring mental health and substance use disorders.
Eligible applicants include:
• City or township governments
• State governments
• County governments
• Public or state-controlled institutions of higher education
• Organizations with a different legal status (e.g., nonprofit, or for-profit mental health agencies) are eligible to apply only if they also have been designated as a state agency or unit of local government to provide mental health services
The award amount is up to $550,000 and the performance period would commence on 10/1/2022 for a duration of 36 months. This solicitation requires a 20% cash and/or in-kind match in years one and two, and a 40% cash and/or in-kind match in year three. Federal funds
awarded under this solicitation may not cover more than 80% of the funded project’s total costs in years 1 and 2, and 60% of the funded project’s total costs in year three.
The application and deadline is a two-step process:
- Complete a grants.gov application by Friday, May 27, 2022
- Complete the full application justgrants.gov by Wednesday, June 1, 2022
Contact Elizabeth Scott, JKC Grant Research Specialist, for more information or with any questions at (708) 862-2262 or