Grant Funding

On Tuesday, January 24, 2017, the Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) released the Fiscal Year (FY) 2017 Comprehensive Opioid Abuse Site-based Program solicitation as well as the Comprehensive Opioid Abuse Program (COAP) Training and Technical Assistance (TTA) Program solicitation as part of the Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act (CARA). CARA is the first major federal substance use disorder treatment and recovery legislation in 40 years.

BJA Solicitation Webinar - Comprehensive Opioid Abuse Program Site-Based Solicitation

This Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) webinar will review the 2017 Comprehensive Opioid Abuse Site-Based Program solicitation. It will review the eligibility, goals, requirements, considerations, funding, and other expectations for all funding categories.  

View the 2017 Comprehensive Opioid Abuse Site-Based Program solicitation.

 

BJA Solicitation Webinar - Comprehensive Opioid Abuse Program TTA Program

This Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) webinar will review the 2017 Comprehensive Opioid Abuse Program (COAP) Training and Technical Assistance (TTA) Program solicitation. It will review the eligibility, goals, requirements, considerations, funding, and other expectations for all TTA categories.

View the 2017 Comprehensive Opioid Abuse Program (COAP) Training and Technical Assistance (TTA) Program solicitation.

 

On Tuesday, March 29, the Department of Justice (DOJ) Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) announced that $14 million will be available in grant funding in order to address and reduce violent crime through programs focused on methamphetamine use and production, and the distribution of heroin and other opioids.

On Thursday, September 24, Attorney General Loretta E. Lynch announced that the Department of Justice (DOJ) awarded $44 million in funding to help communities fight human trafficking.

On Monday, September 21, Vice President Biden and Attorney General Lynch announced in a live broadcast that the Office of Justice Programs’ Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) has awarded over $23 million in funding for the Body-Worn Camera (BWC) Pilot Implementation Program (PIP). The BWC PIP, announced in May 2015, includes $19.3 million to purchase BWCs, $2 million for training and technical assistance (TTA), and $1.9 million to examine the impact of their use.

Procurement with Federal Grants: Understanding and Applying the Rules for Success

For most grantors and grantees, procurement can be the single most time-consuming administrative task in the lifecycle of grants management. And most grantee agencies rely on a procurement office to know, understand and apply the rules and regulations. However, to be successful administrators, we all need to know the federal guidelines and compliance requirements for procuring goods and services with grant money and how to train our subgrantee agencies on these same rules and regulations.

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