Law Enforcement and Behavioral Health Partnership for Early Diversion

Community Mental Health Services Block Grant (MHBG) is sponsored by Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA). The MHBG program makes funds available to states and jurisdictions to provide comprehensive community mental health services to adults with serious mental illnesses, including persons aged 18 and older whose condition substantially interferes with or limits one or more major life activities. Grantees can use funds for new or unique programs or to supplement current activities.

This is a notice of funding opportunity (NOFO) for the BJA FY 2026 Crisis Response Training Program. This opportunity supports state, local, and tribal governments, law enforcement agencies, correctional facilities, probation and parole departments, and sheriffs’ offices in developing, implementing, or expanding crisis response training programs that enhance public safety, officer safety, and operational effectiveness by improving law enforcement responses to individuals in crisis who have behavioral health conditions (including mental health and substance use disorders), intellectual and developmental disabilities (I/DDs), physical disabilities, and/or traumatic brain injuries. This program will equip law enforcement and correctional officers with tactical skills and strategies, and technology to effectively address crisis situations and enhance public safety. Officers trained in crisis intervention techniques are better equipped to safely mitigate volatile situations involving individuals experiencing behavioral health crises, including those with I/DDs. Funding Opportunity Number: O-BJA-2026-172706. Assistance Listing: 16.065. Funding Instrument: G. Category: LJL. Award Amount: Up to $650K per award.

This is a notice of funding opportunity (NOFO) for the BJA FY 2026 Kevin and Avonte Program: Reducing Injury and Death of Missing Individuals with Dementia and Developmental Disabilities. This opportunity supports public safety efforts to reduce 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. This program provides funding to law enforcement, other public safety agencies, and health care agencies to implement locative technologies that track missing individuals. It also provides funding to such agencies and partnering nonprofit organizations to develop or operate programs to prevent wandering, increase safety for vulnerable individuals, and facilitate rescues. Funding Opportunity Number: O-BJA-2026-172697. Assistance Listing: 16.015. Funding Instrument: G. Category: LJL. Award Amount: Up to $150K per award.