BJA FY 18 Comprehensive Opioid Abuse Site-based Program | BJA 2018 13607

Opportunity Information: Apply for BJA 2018 13607

The BJA FY 18 Comprehensive Opioid Abuse Site-based Program (Funding Opportunity Number BJA 2018 13607) is a discretionary, site-based federal grant from the U.S. Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Assistance. It was created in response to the severe impact of opioid misuse on communities across the country, with the program built around the idea that effective strategies cannot focus only on enforcement or only on treatment. Instead, it supports coordinated, practical responses that connect public safety, public health, and victim services so communities can reduce overdose deaths, improve outcomes for people with substance use disorders, and address the ripple effects opioids have on families.

The core purpose of the program is to help jurisdictions put comprehensive opioid response plans into action. That includes strengthening support for first responders who are often the first point of contact during overdoses and opioid-related incidents, and ensuring communities have the tools, training, and coordination needed to respond effectively. It also emphasizes meeting the needs of crime victims, recognizing that opioid misuse and trafficking are often tied to victimization, trauma, and instability that can affect partners, family members, and especially children.

A major focus is on diversion and alternatives to incarceration for non-violent individuals whose justice-system involvement is connected to illicit or prescription opioid misuse. Rather than defaulting to jail or prison, the program supports approaches that steer eligible individuals toward treatment, supervision models, and recovery supports that can reduce recidivism and improve public safety. The intent is to interrupt the cycle where substance use leads to repeated justice contact, while still maintaining accountability and community safety through structured, evidence-informed interventions.

The opportunity also supports implementation and enhancement of prescription drug monitoring programs (PDMPs). PDMP-related work generally aims to improve the way prescription data are collected, shared, analyzed, and used to prevent misuse and risky prescribing practices, while enabling earlier intervention. In practice, this can include strengthening interoperability, improving access for authorized users, and using PDMP data to support public health and public safety decision-making in a way that helps identify patterns linked to misuse and overdose risk.

Another central theme is cross-system planning and coordination of service delivery. The program encourages jurisdictions to align the efforts of law enforcement, courts, corrections, treatment providers, hospitals, social services, victim service organizations, and other local partners. The goal is to reduce fragmentation so individuals do not fall through gaps between agencies, and so communities can respond faster and more consistently to overdose risk, trauma, and opioid-driven crime. This coordination is also framed as essential to reducing fatal overdoses, since prevention, rapid response, treatment access, and ongoing recovery supports all need to work together to have a sustained impact.

The program explicitly acknowledges that opioid misuse affects more than the person using drugs. Strong applications are expected to address associated trauma, violence, and victimization experienced by children and loved ones, and to consider how services can support families and stabilize households impacted by substance use. In other words, the desired response is not only about reducing overdoses, but also about reducing harm, improving safety, and strengthening community resilience.

Eligible applicants include state governments, counties, cities or townships, special district governments, and federally recognized Native American tribal governments. Funding is provided through a cooperative agreement, which typically means the awarding agency expects to have substantial involvement in aspects of program implementation, guidance, or oversight compared to a standard grant.

For FY 2018, the opportunity listed an award ceiling of $1,500,000, with an anticipated 45 awards. The opportunity was posted on May 8, 2018, with an original closing date of June 7, 2018. Overall, it is positioned as a place-based investment to help jurisdictions build or expand a coordinated set of strategies that support first responders, serve victims, divert appropriate non-violent individuals from incarceration, strengthen prescription monitoring, improve system collaboration, and ultimately reduce opioid-related overdose deaths.

• The Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Assistance in the employment, labor and training, health, humanities (see cultural affairs in cfda), science and technology and other research and development sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "BJA FY 18 Comprehensive Opioid Abuse Site-based Program" and is now available to receive applicants.
• Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 16.838.
• This funding opportunity was created on May 08, 2018.
• Applicants must submit their applications by Jun 07, 2018. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
• Each selected applicant is eligible to receive up to $1,500,000.00 in funding.
• The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 45 candidate(s).
• Eligible applicants include: State governments, County governments, City or township governments, Special district governments, Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized).

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