Recent Grants

As authorized by the Bipartisan Safer Communities Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2022, the Byrne State Crisis Intervention Program (SCIP) furthers the Department of Justice's mission by assisting state, local, and tribal efforts to prevent or reduce crime and violence, with a particular focus on gun violence and the programs and initiatives that target the risk factors that are likely to lead to this kind of violence.

Byrne SCIP funds may be used to provide personnel, equipment, supplies, contractual support, training, technical assistance, and information systems related to the implementation of an actual program within the state's SCIP priority areas.

Related court-based, behavioral health deflection, and gun safety programs or initiatives include, but are not limited to: 

• Specialized court-based programs such as drug, mental health, and veterans treatment courts, including those that specifically accept clients with firearm violations 
  • Gun violence recovery courts that connect clients in crisis with community resources
  • Threat assessment training for prosecutors, judges, law enforcement, and public defenders
  • Technology, analysis, or information-sharing solutions for ensuring law enforcement, probation, prosecutors, the courts, and public defenders are informed when a prohibited person attempts to purchase a firearm
  • Development and implementation of validated gun violence risk assessment tools and service case management and navigation programs to assess the risks and needs of clients and connect them to critical services to mitigate their risk of gun violence and enhance their access to effective interventions
  • Expanding the capacity of existing drug, mental health, and veterans treatment courts to assist clients who are most likely to commit or become victims of gun crimes
• Behavioral health deflection for those at risk to themselves or others
  • Assertive Community Treatment
  • Behavioral threat assessment programs and related training 
  • Triage services, mobile crisis units (both co-responder and civilian only), and peer support specialists
  • Technological supports such as smartphone applications to help families and patients navigate mental health and related systems and telehealth initiatives, including technology solutions for telehealth visits outside the hospital
  • Support behavioral health responses and civil legal responses to behavioral health responses such as regional crisis call centers, crisis mobile team response, and crisis receiving and stabilization facilities to individuals in crisis
  • Specialized training for individuals who serve or are families of individuals who are in crisis
  • Law enforcement-based programs, training, and technology
• Funding for law enforcement agencies to safely secure, store, track, and return relinquished guns  
  • Gun locks and storage for individuals and businesses
  • Software/technologies to track relinquished guns
  • Development and or delivery of specialized training and overtime for officers to attend training

The North Carolina Department of Public Safety Governor's Crime Commission has been designated as the State Administrative Agency (SAA) of the Byrne State Crisis Intervention Program (SCIP) for the state of North Carolina.

In FY2025, the following program areas will be funded through the Byrne State Crisis Intervention Program (SCIP):

• Court-based Crisis Intervention Programming
  • Development of processes to identify, triage and connect court-involved people in crisis to services.
  • Expanding the capacity of existing drug, mental health, and veteran treatment courts, including to assist clients who are most likely to commit or become victims of gun crimes.
  • Implementing or expanding domestic violence courts focused on those at risk for gun related violence.
  • Embedding social workers in prosecutor, public defender and/or courts agencies to provide screening, assessment, and referral to services for people in crisis, such as court-based navigators.
  • Prosecutor, pretrial, or court diversion programs.
  • Development and implementation of validated gun violence risk assessment tools, enhancement of existing tools and service case management and navigation programs to assess the risks and needs of clients and connect them to critical services to mitigate their risk of gun violence and enhance their access to effective interventions.
  • Community courts that connect people in crisis with community resources.
  • Programming and training on domestic violence cases and related protection orders, including relinquishment of firearms.
  • Threat assessment training for prosecutors, judges, law enforcement, and public defenders.
• Community-based Services for People in Crisis 
  • Pre-arrest law enforcement and first responder deflection.
  • Assertive community treatment.
  • Behavioral threat assessment programs and related training.
  • Triage services, mobile crisis units (both co-responder and civilian only), and peer support specialists.
  • Suicide and crisis prevention and referral to services.
  • Technological supports such as smartphone applications to help families and patients navigate mental health and related systems and telehealth initiatives, including technology solutions for telehealth visits outside the hospital.
  • Behavioral health responses and civil legal responses to people in crisis, such as regional crisis call centers, crisis mobile team response, and crisis receiving and stabilization facilities for individuals in crisis.
  • De-escalation training for law enforcement, first responders and other justice practitioners.
  • Embedding social workers with law enforcement and co-responder programs.
  • Specialized training for individuals who work with, or are in, families of adults and youth who are in crisis.
  • Related law enforcement-based programs, training, and technology, focused on crisis intervention for those at risk to themselves or others.
  • Hospital-based violence intervention programs
• Law Enforcement Crisis Intervention Programs or Initiatives
  • Development and/or delivery of specialized training, including crisis response and intervention training (CRIT), and overtime for officers to attend such training.
  • Training for school resource officers on identifying youth at risk for firearm violence.
  • Supplies, equipment, technology, and training to safely secure, store, track, and return relinquished guns, such as gun locks and storage for individuals and businesses and software or other technologies to track relinquished guns.
  • Gun safety training for community members.
  • Systems purchase or enhancement to facilitate service and/or tracking of ERPOs.
  • Technology, analysis, or information-sharing solutions for ensuring law enforcement, probation, prosecutors, the courts, and public defenders are informed when a prohibited person attempts to purchase a firearm.
  • Data collection, analysis and strategic planning to address community gun violence.
  • Personnel, supplies, and other related costs for crisis intervention officers or co-responders
• Domestic Violence Intervention Programs (DVIP)
  • Applicant must be an approved DVIP provider by the NC Department of Administration's Division of Women and Youth (formerly the NC Council of Women and Youth Involvement office).
  • Applicant must be a nonprofit or local government.
  • Applicant must address how the proposed activities and costs will address crisis intervention.