OAJJA: Byrne State Crisis Intervention Program (SCIP)

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. The goals for the 2025 Colorado Byrne State Crisis Intervention (Byrne SCIP) Grant Program as established by the Governor-appointed JAG/SCIP Board are:

• Colorado’s Byrne State Crisis Intervention Program (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, 2027;
• Colorado’s Byrne State Crisis Intervention Program (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, 2027; and
• Colorado’s Byrne State Crisis Intervention Program (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, 2027

Project Application DEADLINE: Monday, March 10, 2025

Statutory Authority: Authorized by 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

• Announcement Date: January 6, 2025
• Application Deadline: March 10, 2025
• Funding Decision Announced: Early June

• Reconsideration/Appeals Deadline: Mid-June, approximately 5 days following Denial Notification
• BJA Approval of Awards: July to August
• Grant Agreement Issuance: August to September
• Award Period: October 1, 2025 to September 30, 2026

Units of local government (city, county, township, town, or certain federally recognized American Indian tribes) may apply to OAJJA for a Byrne SCIP grant. Applicants may include but are not limited to courts (district, county, municipal, and tribal), law enforcement, public health departments, behavioral health, district attorney’s offices, public defender’s offices, probation offices, emergency communication, etc.

Applications will be reviewed by the JAG/SCIP Advisory Board using the criteria listed below:

• The proposed project is likely to positively impact the Colorado JAG/SCIP Board’s Goals (See Overview section above).
• Applicants meet eligibility requirements.
• Applicants provide a clear, focused, and concise description of the project, and how the activities/deliverables will address the problem described.
• Applicants clearly identify need through use of statistics/information at the level of the project (i.e., using current state or local data).
• Applicants clearly demonstrate that the proposed project will solve critical problems within a local agency and/or a community, which falls within the purpose of Byrne SCIP, and which will positively impact the Board’s goals.
• Applicants demonstrate the capability to successfully complete the proposed project. This includes the ability and willingness to comply with federal and state administrative, fiscal, evaluation, reporting, and record keeping requirements.
• Goals and Outcomes are logical, sensible, clearly written, and directly tied to the Project Plan and the Budget.
• Outcomes are realistic and able to be accomplished in the time frames described. And, Outcomes identify the amount of intended change expressed as a rate, percent or whole number. Measurements are included that will sufficiently document any change that occurs.
• Budget items are detailed, reasonable, specifically defined, justified, demonstrate how costs were determined, and directly tied to the Project Plan and Goals and Outcomes. No concerns of supplanting have been identified.
• Applicants demonstrate the ability and willingness to collect required data and meet the federal performance measures reporting requirements by the 15th day following each calendar quarter using the BJA Performance Measurement Tool (PMT) system.
• Applicants demonstrate the ability and willingness to take measures to safeguard the constitutional rights of individuals subject to ERPO programs/initiatives and/or crisis intervention programs/initiatives implemented under an award.

If a project application is denied funding, a letter describing the reasons for the denial of funding and information on how to request reconsideration (if eligible for reconsideration) of the Board decision will be sent to the applicant.

As directed by the Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA), Byrne SCIP funds CANNOT be used for:

• More than 10 percent of direct administrative costs of the project. Indirect costs are not part of the 10 percent limit on direct administrative costs.
• Prizes, rewards, entertainment, trinkets (or any type of monetary incentive)
• Client stipends
• Gift cards
• Food and beverage
• Unmanned aircraft systems (UAS), including unmanned aircraft vehicles (UAV), and all accompanying accessories to support UAS or UAV
• Lobbying
• Supplanting

The 2025 Byrne State Crisis Intervention Program (SCIP) Announcement of Availability of Funds, Application, and Application Instructions are available in DCJ’s Grant Management System: . This grant accepts application one per year.

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3. then click “Apply Now for a TEST Grant Name”

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Multiple Applications/Projects

Date: January 12, 2024

Question: Is it permissible for two departments within the same agency to submit individual applications for the same grant?

Response: Yes, an agency, or town/city/county, or an internal department of one of these entities, can submit multiple Byrne SCIP grant applications for different projects. Even the same department can submit more than one application if they like.

City Council Approval, DCJ Policy

Date: January 12, 2024

Question: Is official board action by our city council required to apply for this grant?

Response: The Division of Criminal Justice does not have any policies requiring applicants to receive approval from their city council prior to applying. Applicants would only need to follow their City policies/rules around prior approval to apply.

Personnel, 10% Cap Direct Administrative Costs

Date: January 12, 2024

Question: Are requests for personnel funding for a project limited by the 10% cap on direct administrative costs?

Response: If the personnel position will be carrying out programmatic activities under the project, then the request for personnel funding would not be considered a direct administrative cost and would not be subject to the 10% cap.

Amount of Request, Cap

Date: February 12, 2024

Question: Is there a cap on the amount of funding an entity can ask for?

Response: Other than the available funding amount of $1,825,776, there is no cap on the amount of Byrne State Crisis Intervention Program funds for which an entity may apply.

Relationship of SCIP to JAG

Date: 2024

Question: Is the Byrne State Crisis Intervention Program (SCIP) the same as the Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant (JAG) Program?

Response: No. Byrne SCIP funding was appropriated as part of the supplemental appropriations enacted under the 2022 Bipartisan Safer Communities Act. Byrne SCIP is separate and distinct from the JAG Program, which is funded annually under Department of Justice appropriations acts. The Bipartisan Safer Communities Act modified the JAG statute to include a new program area, 34 U.S.C. §10152 (a)(1)(I): “Implementation of State crisis intervention court proceedings and related programs or initiatives, including but not limited to—(i) mental health courts; (ii) drug courts; (iii) veterans courts; and (iv) extreme risk protection order programs[.]” Byrne SCIP, consistent with the supplemental appropriations act, funds project implementation in this new program area only.