FY24 Promoting Access to Crisis Teams - Community Policing Development Solicitation | O COPS 2024 172004

Opportunity Information: Apply for O COPS 2024 172004

The FY24 Promoting Access to Crisis Teams (PACT) - Community Policing Development (CPD) Solicitation is a discretionary federal grant opportunity offered by the U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS Office). The COPS Office focuses on strengthening community policing nationwide by giving state, local, territorial, and tribal law enforcement agencies access to funding and practical resources that improve how policing is delivered in real communities. This particular solicitation is aimed at helping agencies build out or improve their capacity to respond to people experiencing mental health or behavioral health crises, with an emphasis on partnerships, training, and embedded support that can lead to safer, more effective outcomes for both the public and responding personnel.

At its core, the PACT-CPD program is designed to support the creation or expansion of crisis intervention teams and to integrate mental and behavioral health services alongside law enforcement operations. That means the funding can be used to help agencies establish new crisis response capabilities where little or none currently exist, or to scale up existing crisis intervention team models to reach more people, cover more geography, operate for more hours, or provide a broader set of services. It also supports the idea of embedding behavioral health expertise with law enforcement, which commonly involves building structured collaborations with clinicians, co-responder programs, or other arrangements that bring mental health professionals into closer, more formal alignment with police response systems. The overall goal is to improve how agencies respond in the field when someone is in crisis, including de-escalation, appropriate assessment, and connection to services when that is more appropriate than arrest or emergency-room drop-offs.

Eligibility for this opportunity is broad within the law enforcement space. The solicitation is open to local, state, tribal, and territorial law enforcement agencies, reflecting an intent to reach agencies of many sizes and jurisdictions. In the listing, eligibility is categorized under "Others," but the narrative makes clear that the intended applicants are governmental law enforcement entities at multiple levels, including tribal agencies. The funding activity category is Law, Justice and Legal Services, and the associated CFDA (now commonly referred to as Assistance Listing) number is 16.710, which corresponds to COPS Office grant programming.

The grant is offered as a standard grant funding instrument under a discretionary program, meaning awards are competitive and dependent on proposal quality, alignment with program goals, and available funding. The award ceiling is $400,000 per award, and the COPS Office anticipates making about 10 awards under this solicitation. The opportunity was created on March 21, 2024, and the original application closing date was May 14, 2024. The funding opportunity number is O-COPS-2024-172004, which applicants would use to locate the official solicitation materials and submit the correct application under the correct announcement.

In practical terms, the opportunity is meant to move agencies beyond ad hoc crisis handling toward more consistent, planned crisis response. By supporting crisis intervention team development and deeper behavioral health integration, the program is aimed at improving response quality, reducing the risk of escalation, and helping ensure that people in crisis are directed toward appropriate care and community-based supports when possible. The solicitation sits squarely within the broader community policing framework, emphasizing problem-solving partnerships and approaches that can improve trust, safety, and outcomes during high-stakes encounters involving mental illness, substance use, or other behavioral health emergencies.

• The Community Oriented Policing Services in the law, justice and legal services sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "FY24 Promoting Access to Crisis Teams - Community Policing Development Solicitation" and is now available to receive applicants.
• Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 16.710.
• This funding opportunity was created on 2024-03-21.
• Applicants must submit their applications by 2024-05-14. (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 $400,000.00 in funding.
• The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 10 candidate(s).
• Eligible applicants include: Others.

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