APPLICATION DEADLINE
FRIDAY, MARCH 8, 2024
ABOUT THE FUNDING AGENCY
The mission of the Division of Criminal Justice (DCJ) is to improve the public safety of the community, the quality of services to crime victims, and the effectiveness of services to offenders. We accomplish this by analyzing policy, conducting criminal justice research, managing programs, and administering grants.
PROGRAM DESCRIPTION
The goals for the 2024 Colorado Byrne State Crisis Intervention (Byrne SCIP) Grant Program as established by the Governor-appointed JAG/SCIP Board are:
- Colorado’s Byrne SCIP funded activities will increase professional petitioner use and understanding of the appropriate use of extreme risk protection orders across Colorado from 60 per year to 240 per year (+400%), by September 30, 2026;
- Colorado’s Byrne SCIP funded activities will mitigate gun violence in the most impacted communities in Colorado by increasing the capacity of at least 40 community-based organizations, specialized court programs, and law enforcement agencies to implement community violence intervention, crisis intervention, behavioral health deflection, treatment services, and gun safety programs or initiatives, by September 30, 2026; and
- Colorado’s Byrne SCIP funded activities will decrease intentional and negligent gun violence injuries and fatalities in Colorado from 2,109 to 1,687 annually (-20%), by September 30, 2026.
Purpose of the Funds: To provide funding for the creation and/or implementation of state crisis intervention court proceedings, extreme risk protection order (ERPO) programs, and related gun violence reduction programs/initiatives. Byrne SCIP focuses on gun violence and the programs and initiatives that target the risk factors that are likely to lead to this kind of violence.
Statutory Authority: The Bipartisan Safer Communities Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2022 (Pub. L. No. 117-159, 136 Stat. 1313, 1339); (codified at 28 U.S.C. 530C). CFDA# 16.738
Eligible Activities: In general, Byrne SCIP will support state crisis intervention court proceedings and related programs or initiatives, including, but not limited to, mental health courts, drug courts, veteran’s treatment courts, and ERPO programs, as well as related court-based, behavioral health deflection, and gun safety programs or initiatives. Allowable uses of Byrne SCIP funds include, but are not limited to:
Implementation of state crisis intervention court proceedings, including, but not limited to, extreme risk protection order (ERPO) programs.
Specialized court-based programs such as drug, mental health, and veteran’s 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, 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 veteran’s 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.
- 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 for individuals in crisis.
- Specialized training for individuals who serve or are in families of individuals who are in crisis.
- Related 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.