Grant purpose is to initiate a new Crisis Intervention Team model for use within a large, single police department or a region of small police departments. Often a multi-year grant but can be a single year as well.
Grants are to provide regional centers that provide both training and support services to police departments that adopt a CIT model. The centers provide a set number of courses per year for a set number of slots, and also provide follow-up technical consultation to participating police departments.
These are multi-year grants to support municipalities to hire or sub-contract for a behavioral health clinician that would be added to the workforce within the police department (or departments if the program is regional). In addition to duties within the station, the clinician is also available to police for ride-alongs on shifts with the highest volume calls that have behavioral health needs.
These grants provide regional centers that provide training and support services to co-response clinicians and their police colleagues in departments that adopt a Co-response model. The centers provide training opportunities, orientation services as well as assistance with recruitment of personnel on behalf of participating police departments.
These are multi-year grants to support municipalities to implement a Jail/Arrest Diversion program that is tailored to the local need/readiness of that community. For instance, a community may request support for a combination of training, consultation, CIT start-up and/or support for a coresponder.
These are one year grants for streamlined reimbursement for backfill costs and training fees (if applicable) for local police departments to send personnel to DMH-sponsored Crisis Intervention Training (10-20 officers), Mental Health First Aid trainings, and/or national conferences related to CIT or other approved practices.
Purpose is to provide direct payment to individuals and/or organizations that can provide professional consultation services, statewide or regionally, to police departments at any stage of development of their CIT program, TTAC, Co-Response program, or Component Jail/Arrest Diversion program. These grants can also fund individuals who can provide subject matter expert training on a CIT training topic(s) or can provide certified training on Mental Health First Aid or other related trainings.
The Department of Mental Health (DMH) is currently seeking Applicants interested in obtaining grant funding for the purpose of establishing a Jail/Arrest Diversion project in one or more communities in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Available grant types can be viewed below.
Interested parties should review the Commbuys Bid Solicitation, the expanded Program Descriptions, and download the Instructions for Vendors document for application process details.