BJA FY24 Comprehensive Opioid, Stimulant, and Substance Use Site-Based Program | O BJA 2024 172128

Opportunity Information: Apply for O BJA 2024 172128

The BJA FY24 Comprehensive Opioid, Stimulant, and Substance Use Site-Based Program is a discretionary grant opportunity from the U.S. Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA), designed to help communities build or strengthen a full, coordinated response to the overdose crisis. The focus is on practical, on-the-ground (site-based) strategies that address the harms associated with illicit opioids, stimulants, and other substances, while also improving public safety and strengthening connections to care. The program is intended to support efforts that reduce overdose deaths, curb substance misuse, and expand access to prevention, harm reduction, treatment, and recovery services across both community settings and the justice system.

This funding is aimed at helping jurisdictions develop, implement, or expand comprehensive programs, meaning it is not limited to a single intervention. Instead, BJA is looking for coordinated approaches that can include public safety partnerships, health and behavioral health collaborations, and justice-system interventions that connect people to services rather than cycling them through arrest and release without support. The solicitation emphasizes addressing substance use and overdose impacts in ways that improve outcomes for individuals and communities, including reducing repeat justice involvement and strengthening community stability. Programs may operate in the community, in courts, in jails, or across multiple points of contact, with an emphasis on continuity of care and practical service access.

Eligible applicants include state governments, county governments, city or township governments, federally recognized Native American tribal governments, and other eligible entities identified in the solicitation. For your stated target group, rural city, township, or county governments are explicitly referenced as a relevant applicant type and setting. The opportunity supports state, local, tribal, and territorial efforts, which signals that BJA expects local initiatives to be connected to broader systems and partnerships, including law enforcement, courts, corrections, public health, hospitals, treatment providers, harm reduction organizations, and recovery supports.

Key funding details include an opportunity number of O-BJA-2024-172128 and a CFDA (Assistance Listing) number of 16.838. The application closing date listed is July 1, 2024, and the opportunity was created on May 9, 2024. The maximum award amount (award ceiling) is $7,000,000, and BJA anticipated making approximately 76 awards. Because this is a discretionary grant, awards are competitive and typically based on how well an applicant’s proposal aligns with BJA priorities, the strength and feasibility of the implementation plan, the depth of partnerships, and the ability to measure results and sustain the work beyond the grant period.

In terms of what applicants are generally expected to propose, the solicitation language points toward a comprehensive “overdose response” framework that can combine multiple components. That can include prevention initiatives (such as education and early intervention), harm reduction strategies (such as overdose prevention and linkage to lifesaving tools and services), treatment expansion (including evidence-based treatment access and referral pathways), and recovery supports (including reentry-focused supports for people leaving jail or prison). The justice-system emphasis suggests that BJA is particularly interested in strategies that improve how law enforcement, courts, and corrections identify people with substance use needs, prevent overdose risk during high-vulnerability periods (such as post-release), and connect individuals to services in a timely and coordinated way.

Overall, this grant opportunity is designed for jurisdictions that want to build a structured, multi-partner response to illicit substance use and overdose, especially where public safety and health systems intersect. For rural local governments, it can be a significant source of support to strengthen capacity, close service gaps, and coordinate local agencies and providers around shared goals like reducing overdose deaths, improving access to care, and enhancing community safety.

• The Bureau of Justice Assistance in the humanities sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "BJA FY24 Comprehensive Opioid, Stimulant, and Substance Use 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 2024-05-09.
• Applicants must submit their applications by 2024-07-01. (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 $7,000,000.00 in funding.
• The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 76 candidate(s).
• Eligible applicants include: State governments, County governments, City or township governments, Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized), Others.

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