Federal Support of Mental Health Courts

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Federal Support of Mental Health Courts

• Lessons Learned Innovative Approaches to Mental
  Health Courts and Related Services
• June 4, 2009
• DuPage County, IL

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Rebecca Rose Policy Advisor for Substance Abuse
and Mental Health Bureau of Justice Assistance
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Presentation outline

• Overview of OJP/BJA
• Justice and Mental Health Collaboration Program
• Review of FY09 Solicitation
• Other Requirements
• Peer Review
• Training and Technical Assistance
• Additional Important Information Resources
• Questions

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Bureau of Justice Assistance

• Mission BJA supports law enforcement, courts,
  corrections, treatment, victim services,
  technology, and prevention initiatives that
  strengthen the nations criminal justice system.
• Programs, Policy, Planning
• Types of Programs Discretionary and Formula

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Justice and Mental Health Collaboration Program
(JMHCP)

• Purpose of program Increase public safety
  through innovative cross-system collaboration for
  individuals with mental illness or co-occurring
  mental health and substance abuse disorders.
• The JMHCP is authorized by the Mentally Ill
  Offender Treatment and Crime Reduction Act (PL
  108-414) and the Mentally ill Offender Treatment
  and Crime Reduction Reauthorization and
  Improvement Act (PL 110-416).

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Overview of JMHCP

• Program Uses
• Providing appropriate services for
  system-involved individuals with mental illnesses
• Providing specialized training programs for
  criminal justice and mental health personnel.
• Improving law enforcement strategies to respond
  to individuals with mental illnesses.
• Making available diversion options such as mental
  health courts, alternative prosecution and
  sentencing programs, pre-trial services, or other
  court-based programs.
• Providing transitional services for those with
  mental illnesses who are incarcerated or
  reentering the community from a correctional
  institution.

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Review of SolicitationEligibility

• Applicants are limited to states, units of local
  government, federally recognized Indian tribes
  and tribal organizations.
• Each applicant must demonstrate that the proposed
  project will be administered jointly by a
  criminal or juvenile justice agency and a mental
  health agency.

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Review of SolicitationEligibility

• A criminal or juvenile justice agency is
  defined as an agency of state or local government
  that is responsible for detection, arrest,
  enforcement, prosecution, defense, adjudication,
  incarceration, probation, or parole relating to
  the violation of the criminal laws of that state
  or local government.
• A mental health agency is an agency of state or
  local government or its contracted agency that is
  responsible for mental health services or
  co-occurring mental health and substance abuse
  services.

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Review of SolicitationTarget Population

• Grant funds must be used to support a target
  population that includes an adult or juvenile
  accused of a nonviolent offense who
• Has been diagnosed as having a mental illness or
  co-occurring mental health and substance abuse
  disorder.
• Has faced, is facing, or could face criminal
  charges for a misdemeanor or nonviolent offense.

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Review of SolicitationGrant Categories

• Category I Planning
• Funding amount 50,000
• Project period 12 Months
• Category I applicants will design a strategic,
  collaborative plan to initiate systemic change
  for the identification and treatment of
  system-involved individuals with mental illnesses
  or co-occurring substance abuse disorders.

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Review of SolicitationGrant Categories

• Category II Planning Implementation
• Funding amount 250,000
• Project period 30 Months
• Category II applicants will complete an
  already-initiated strategic plan for the criminal
  justice and mental health collaboration program,
  and then begin implementation of the plan during
  the project period.

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Review of SolicitationGrant Categories

• Category III Expansion
• Funding amount 200,000
• Project period 24 Months
• Category III applicants will expand upon or
  improve a well-established collaboration plan.
  Applicants must clearly demonstrate an expansion
  to the current functioning of an existing
  program.

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Review of SolicitationPerformance Measures

• Performance measures for the JMHCP are included
  on pages 4 8 of the solicitation.
• All applicants must demonstrate in their proposal
  the ability, through a formal process, to collect
  information related to the performance measures.
• Upon selection of the grantees, BJA will review
  the measures to provide guidance on which
  measures apply to your program.

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Review of SolicitationApplication Attachments

• Attachment 1
• Program Abstract
• Program Narrative
• Attachment 2
• Budget Budget Narrative
• Attachment 3
• Project Time and Task Plan
• Memoranda/Letters of Support

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Review of SolicitationProgram Narrative

• The program narrative must respond to Selection
  Criteria 1, 2, 3, and 5 listed on pages 10 12.
• Double-spaced, standard 12-point font, with 1
  inch margins
• Page Limit for narrative 20 pages

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Importance of Selection Criteria

• Statement of the Problem
• Project Design Implementation
• Capabilities/Competencies
• Budget
• Impact/Outcomes, Evaluation, Sustainment, and
  Performance Measure Data Collection Plan

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Review of SolicitationBudget

• Applicants must submit a budget worksheet and
  budget narrative in one file as Attachment 2.
• Each applicant must include costs for a
  representative from the partner agencies to
  attend a grantee orientation meeting.
• In addition, Category II and III applicants
  should include costs for a four-member team to
  attend one national meeting.

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Review of SolicitationBudget

• Match Requirement
• Category I and III 20 match is required
• Category II 20 match is required for Year 1 and
  2 40 match is required for Year 3 applicants
  should calculate the match for each year see
  example on page 2 of the FAQs
• Match can be in-kind or cash

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Types of Match

• Cash Match (hard) includes cash spent for
  project-related costs. Allowable cash match must
  include those costs which are allowable with
  Federal funds with the exception of the
  acquisition of land, when applicable.
• In-kind Match (soft) includes, but is not limited
  to, the valuation of in-kind services. In-kind
  is the value of something received or provided
  that does not have a cost associated with it. For
  example, if in-kind match is permitted by law
  (other than cash payments), then the value of
  donated services could be used to comply with the
  match requirement. Also, third party in-kind
  contributions may count toward satisfying match
  requirements provided the grantee receiving the
  contributions expend them as allowable costs (see
  28 CFR Part 66.24, Grants Management Common Rule
  for State and Local Units of Governments).

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Review of SolicitationBudget

• Budget Resources
• Sample budget worksheet http//www.ojp.usdoj.gov/
  funding/forms/budget_detail.pdf
• OJP Financial Guide http//www.ojp.usdoj.gov/fina
  ncialguide/index.htm

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Review of SolicitationAttachment 3

• Project Time and Task Plan To include each
  project goal, objective, activity, expected
  completion date, and person responsible.
• Memoranda of Understanding/Letters of Support
  Include from co-applicants and collaborative
  partners.
• These attachments should be included in the other
  attachments section on Grants.gov.

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Certified Assurances (Nondiscrimination
Requirements)

• Applicants must assure and certify that they
  comply, and assure the compliance of their
  subrecipients, with all applicable civil rights
  nondiscrimination requirements as set forth on
  the OJP Assurances Form 4000/3 (Attachment to
  Standard Form SF 424).
• In the event that a Federal or State court or
  Federal or State administrative agency makes a
  finding of discrimination after a due process
  hearing on the grounds of race, color, national
  origin, sex, or disability against a recipient of
  Federal funds, or any subgrantee or contractor of
  that recipient, a copy of such findings must be
  forwarded to OJP, Office for Civil Rights (OCR).
• All recipients and their subrecipients must also
  provide OCR with an Equal Employment Opportunity
  Plan, if required to maintain one, where the
  award is 500,000 or more.

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Intergovernmental Review

• If the State has established a process for the
  review of Federal programs and activities
  eligible under Executive Order 12372 and a
  particular program has been selected for review
  by the State, applicants for the program must
  submit a copy of their application to the State
  single point of contact prior to or at the same
  time that the application is submitted to the
  awarding agency. Additional information
  concerning this requirement is contained in the
  individual program announcements.

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Indirect Costs

• Indirect costs are costs of an organization that
  are not readily assignable to a particular
  project, but are necessary to the operation of
  the organization and the performance of the
  project. The cost of operating and maintaining
  facilities, depreciation, and administrative
  salaries are examples of the types of costs that
  are usually treated as indirect.

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Allowable Costs

• Allowable costs are those costs identified in the
  circulars and in the grant programs authorizing
  legislation. In addition, costs must be
  reasonable, allocable, necessary to the project,
  and comply with the funding statute requirements.

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Unallowable Costs

• Land Acquisition
• Compensation of Federal Employees
• Travel of Federal Employees
• Bonuses or Commissions
• Military-Type Equipment
• Lobbying
• Fundraising
• Corporate Formation
• State and Local Sales Taxes
• Other Unallowable Costs
• Costs Incurred Outside the Project Period

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Peer Review Process

• BJA Initial Review
• Peer Review
• Final Award Decisions

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Policy on Making Awards

• This agency may not make an award to any
  applicant who has an overdue audit report or an
  open audit report where the recipient has not
  attempted to respond or has taken no action to
  resolve findings. Every applicant for funding is
  on notice that unless they are in compliance with
  the audit requirements, their application may be
  rejected. Exceptions to this policy are by
  recommendation of the Chief Financial Officer,
  OJP, to the awarding agency.

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Training and Technical Assistance

• Technical assistance is available to grantees
  planning, implementing, evaluating, and
  sustaining Justice and Mental Health
  Collaborations. In addition, similar types of
  assistance to nongrantees in the fields of
  criminal justice and mental health through
  publications and collaborative workshops and
  conferences.

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Resources

• FY2009 Solicitation http//www.ojp.usdoj.gov/BJA/
  grant/09JMHCPsol.pdf
• Solicitation FAQs http//www.ojp.usdoj.gov/BJA/gr
  ant/09JMHCPFAQ.pdf
• Information on JMHCP http//www.ojp.usdoj.gov/BJA
  /grant/JMHCprogram.html
• BJA Grantee Tool Box http//www.ojp.usdoj.gov/BJA
  /resource/toolbox.html
• Council of State Governments Justice Center
  http//consensusproject.org/

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Mental Health Court Learning Sites

• Akron Municipal Mental Health Court (OH)
• Bonneville County Mental Health Court (ID)
• Bronx County Mental Health Court (NY)
• Dougherty Superior Court (GA)
• Washoe County Mental Health Court (NV)

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Other Tips

• Read Solicitation and FAQs very carefully
• Reach out to solicitation POC with questions
• Participate in webinars during open application
  period
• Coordinate with partners - decide who will submit
  the application based on eligibility
• Have someone proofread your application
• Follow instructions exactly
• Ask for what you need
• Review your application carefully
• Submit application in advance of deadline

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Searching for Available Funding

• www.grants.gov (Sign up for grant email alerts)
• http//www.ojp.usdoj.gov/BJA/index.html
  (Available funding opportunities at bottom of
  page)
• http//www.ojp.usdoj.gov/funding/solicitations.htm
  (OJP funding opportunities)

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Questions

• Contact Information
• For additional questions on the solicitation,
  contact
• Rebecca Rose
• Bureau of Justice Assistance
• [phone]
• Rebecca.Rose_at_usdoj.gov