BJA FY 2026 Public Safety and Mental Health Initiative
- Award ceiling
- up to $3,000,000
- Closes
- Sep 25, 2026
- Last verified
- 2026-10-18
Awards up to $3,000,000 per recipient for city or township governments, county governments, native american tribal governments (federally recognized), native american tribal organizations (other than federally recognized tribal governments), others (see text field entitled "additional information on eligibility" for clarification), special district governments, state governments, closing Sep 25, 2026.
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BJA FY 2026 Public Safety and Mental Health Initiative awards up to $3,000,000 per recipient, open to city or township governments, county governments, native american tribal governments (federally recognized), native american tribal organizations (other than federally recognized tribal…
- Program pool (total)
- Not confirmedTotal across all awards in this programme. Not an amount any single applicant can receive.
- Award ceiling (per project)
- $3,000,000
- Award floor
- Not confirmed
- Typical award
- Not confirmed
- Deadline
- Sep 25, 2026
- Deadline type
- Fixed date
- Opens
- Aug 14, 2026
- Status
- Closed
- Eligible entities
- City or township governments · County governments · Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized) · Native American tribal organizations (other than Federally recognized tribal governments) · Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification) · Special district governments · State governments
- Geography
- Not stated
- Matching funds
- Yes
- Disbursement
- Not confirmed
- Application effort
- Not confirmed
- Use of funds
- comprehensive service networks addressing untreated mental illness and substance use · increase access to mental health and substance use treatment through civil commitment, institutional treatment, and step-down approaches from pre-arrest through reentry · reduce the burden on law enforcement and the justice system · restore order in communities affected by homelessness, mental illness, and substance use
- Currency
- USD
How much money is available?
Two different figures govern a programme and they are not interchangeable. The programme pool is what the funder has allocated across every award it will make this cycle. The award ceiling is the most one applicant can be granted.
Who can apply?
Not confirmed
Source field: applicant size limitOther units of local government; Nonprofit or for-profit mental health agencies or other non-governmental applicants are eligible to apply only if they meet two requirements: (1) The applicant is designated by the state mental health…
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What can the money be used for?
4 categorysThe source’s own spending categories, and what is not parsed.
These categories come from the source's own classification. A line-item cost table, where the programme publishes one, lives in the guidelines and is not parsed for this record.
How hard is the application?
1 fieldEffort, match requirement and reimbursement, as the source stated them.
- Application effort
- Not confirmed
- Disbursement
- Not confirmed
- Matching funds
- Yes
Who has received this funding?
310 awardsAwards on file for this programme, counted rather than modelled.
310 prior awards on file for this programme, largest first. Every row comes from the funder's own award listing; nothing here is estimated.
| Recipient | State | Amount | Fiscal year |
|---|---|---|---|
| COUNTY OF BEXAR (BEXAR COUNTY) | Not stated | $100,000 | 2023 |
| COUNTY OF CHARLOTTE | Not stated | $100,000 | 2022 |
| NORTHWESTERN COMMUNITY SERVICES BOARD | Not stated | $100,000 | 2022 |
| SUQUAMISH INDIAN TRIBE OF THE PORT MADISON RESERVATION | Not stated | $100,000 | 2019 |
| MENOMINEE INDIAN TRIBE OF WISCONSIN | Not stated | $99,358 | 2019 |
| COUNTY OF MADISON | Not stated | $39,339 | 2022 |
| BATON ROUGE CITY OF OFFICE OF THE TREASURER | Not stated | $0 | 2021 |
| CITY OF SHORELINE | Not stated | $0 | 2022 |
| COUNTY OF SANTA CRUZ | Not stated | $0 | 2024 |
| DEPARTMENT OF POLICE PUERTO RICO | Not stated | $0 | 2022 |
Recipient names as published by the California Grants Portal.
What comparable notices state
45 recordsStated ceilings on open records in the same industry.
Among open records stored under Law, Justice & Legal Services, 45 of 45 state an award ceiling. Those that do run:
- 25th percentile$750,000
- Median$1,200,000
- 75th percentile$2,850,000
A statistical estimate, not a prediction. It describes what a set of notices has published in this catalogue on the day you read it, and says nothing about what this programme will award. Records stating no ceiling are excluded rather than counted as zero, and the programme pool — what a funder has across every applicant — is a different column and is never mixed in.
Who has won this programme before?
1336 awardsAwards under the same assistance listing, not under this notice.
1336 federal awards on file under assistance listing 16.745, 16.812, 16.838, the programme this notice is published under. These are not awards made under this notice — a listing covers every year the programme runs, and awards under an open notice do not exist yet.
- $18,533,000THE INSTITUTE FOR INTERGOVERNMENTAL RESEARCH, INC.FL · FY2022
- $11,050,000THE COUNCIL OF STATE GOVERNMENTS LTD.KY · FY2023
- $10,843,302AMERICAN INSTITUTES FOR RESEARCH IN THE BEHAVIORAL SCIENCESVA · FY2020
- $9,600,000JBS INTERNATIONAL, INC.MD · FY2023
- $8,911,329THE INSTITUTE FOR INTERGOVERNMENTAL RESEARCH, INC.FL · FY2025
Common questions
6 questionsEvery answer is a stored field from this record. Questions the source did not answer are not asked.
- How much can one applicant receive?
- Up to $3,000,000 per recipient.
- When is the application deadline?
- Sep 25, 2026.
- Who is eligible to apply?
- City or township governments, County governments, Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized), Native American tribal organizations (other than Federally recognized tribal governments), Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification), Special district governments, State governments.
- What can the funding be used for?
- comprehensive service networks addressing untreated mental illness and substance use, increase access to mental health and substance use treatment through civil commitment, institutional treatment, and step-down approaches from pre-arrest through reentry, reduce the burden on law enforcement and the justice system, restore order in communities affected by homelessness, mental illness, and substance use, as classified by the source.
- Is matching funding required?
- Yes. This programme requires matching funds.
- Has this programme funded anyone before?
- 310 prior awards are on file for this programme, made by Bureau of Justice Assistance. Recipients, amounts and fiscal years are listed on this page.
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The official page governs. If the source and this record disagree, the source is correct — programmes change their terms between our checks, so confirm every figure above before you apply.