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History of Funding

Up to $127,300,000 was available in 2024 for an anticipated 76 grant awards.

Up to $120,400,000 was available in 2023 for an anticipated 72 grant awards. 

Up to $132,000,000 was available in 2022 for an anticipated 83 grant awards.

Examples of successful applications can be found here: https://bja.ojp.gov/program/cossup/about

Additional Information

Program Goals and Objectives 

Goal 1: Develop, implement, or expand comprehensive programs to identify, respond to, treat, and support those impacted by illicit opioids, stimulants, or other substances. 

• Objective 1: Increase access to and receipt of treatment for people with substance use disorder in the community and correctional settings. 
• Objective 2: Expand deflection and diversion in multiple points across the criminal justice system for people with substance use disorder that come in contact with the justice system. 
• Objective 3: Link overdose survivors to treatment services and recovery support coaches. 
• Objective 4: Expand the availability of treatment and recovery support services in rural and tribal communities. 
• Objective 5: Develop a coordinated multidisciplinary plan within states and localities.

Goal 2: Provide training and resources to support state, local, tribal, and territorial efforts to respond to illicit substance use. 

• Objective 1: Assist eligible entities to plan, implement, or expand comprehensive programs to reduce overdose deaths, promote public safety, and support access to prevention, harm reduction, treatment, and recovery services in the community and justice system. 
• Objective 2: Assist local, state, and tribal governments to better collaborate with each other and with their communities and enhance justice and health system responses for people with substance use disorder that are facing potential incarceration or other contact with the justice system.

For each category, only one application by any particular applicant entity will be considered. An entity may, however, be proposed as a subrecipient (subgrantee) in more than one application. This includes applications that propose to serve a region that crosses state boundaries. Subrecipients may include treatment providers, victim service providers, and other not-for-profit entities as part of a comprehensive cross-disciplinary response as outlined in Categories 1 and 2. If an agency wishes to apply under multiple categories, a separate application is needed for each category of funding

Through COSSUP, local, state, and tribal government efforts can include, but are not limited to, one or a combination of the following strategies and activities across the SIM. 

Intercept 0: Community Services 

• Harm reduction activities that include increasing availability and access to naloxone. Coordination should demonstrate a comprehensive approach to services delivering both place-based care and teleservices. 
• Prescription drug take-back programs for unused controlled substances found in the home and used by hospitals, long-term care facilities, and other facilities. 
• Deflection and diversion programs that include multidisciplinary overdose prevention, response, and referral models such as mobile crisis units and co-responder models. 

Intercept 1: Law Enforcement 

• Deflection and diversion programs led by law enforcement and first responders that include multidisciplinary overdose prevention, response, and referral models such as mobile crisis units and co-responder models. 
• K–12 education and prevention programs to connect law enforcement agencies with K–12 students.
• Efforts to embed social services with law enforcement to rapidly respond to drug overdoses where children are impacted. 

Intercept 2: Initial Court Hearings and Detention 

• Post-arrest alternative to incarceration programs, such as pretrial, prosecutor, public defender, and court diversion or intervention programs, that serve individuals at high risk for overdose or SUD. (Note: Funding is available under other BJA and Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) funding opportunities to implement or enhance an adult treatment court, a juvenile drug court, a family treatment court, and a  veterans treatment court. As such, implementing or enhancing these court models is not an allowable funding activity under COSSUP.) 

Intercept 3: Jails/Courts 

• Expanded access to evidence-based substance use disorder treatment in jails and court programming, such as withdrawal management services and medication assisted treatment (MAT). This includes initiatives to universally screen people and provide assessment and diagnoses when applicable, and enhance recovery support services, including peer recovery. 
• Screening individuals for eligibility for insurance coverage and connections to care and providers upon release.

Intercept 4: Prison/Reentry 

• Expanded access to evidence-based substance use disorder treatment in correctional settings, such as MAT. This includes initiatives to universally screen people and provide assessment and diagnoses when applicable, and enhance recovery support services, including peer recovery. 
• Other wraparound services, including case management, counseling, and employment assistance, to improve engagement and retention in substance use services among individuals reintegrating into communities from criminal justice involvement. 
• Screening individuals for eligibility for insurance coverage and connections to care and providers upon release. 

Intercept 5: Community Corrections 

• Transitional or recovery housing and recovery support services, including access to physical and behavioral health care benefits, counseling services, employment services, and education services, and peer support services for those reentering the community from incarceration or secure residential treatment facilities. (Note: No more than 30 percent of total grant funds may be used for transitional or recovery housing. See Budget Details section for more information.)
• Other wraparound services, including case management, counseling, and employment assistance, to improve engagement and retention in substance use services among individuals reintegrating into communities from criminal justice involvement. 

Other Activities Across the SIM 

• Identifying and building capacity for screening and assessment for substance use and co-occurring substance use and mental health. 
• Embedding social workers, peers, or persons with lived experience at any intercept of the SIM to assist people in the justice system, and their families, navigate systems and to increase their connection to treatment and recovery support services. 
• Expanding workforce of peer recovery specialists and supports. 
• Initiatives to train justice system and treatment practitioners to support project goals. This may include training justice system practitioners on the science of addiction and SUD and what works to get people with SUD into recovery; training SUD treatment workforce on justice systems and working with justice involved populations; or other trainings and sharing of knowledge and understanding across justice system, public safety, health, and treatment professionals.
• Initiatives to bring together justice, behavioral health, and public health practitioners to implement new or promising practices that may not yet have a research base in addressing the impact of opioids, stimulants, and other substances on individuals and communities at risk of or having justice system involvement. This includes the application of evidence-based strategies from other fields, such as health initiatives that have not yet been fully examined in the justice context. (Note: Applications funding these initiatives must include a research partner.) 
• Comprehensive, real-time, regional information collection, analysis, and dissemination that promotes the use of data for responses to overdoses and emerging drug trends. These types of activities may include the use of data dashboards, Overdose Detection and Mapping Application Program (ODMAP), Overdose Fatality Review, and forensic epidemiologists and technologies. 

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