OAJJA: Residential Substance Abuse Treatment for State Prisoners

Overview

The Residential Substance Abuse Treatment (RSAT) Grant Program enhances the capabilities of state, local, and tribal governments to provide residential substance use disorder (SUD) treatment to adult and juvenile populations during detention or incarceration, to initiate or continue evidence-based SUD treatment in jails with pre-trial populations, prepare individuals for reintegration into the community, and assist them and their communities throughout the reentry process by delivering community-based treatment and other recovery aftercare services. The RSAT Grant Program encourages the establishment and maintenance of drug-free prisons and jails and development and implementation of specialized residential and pre-trial SUD treatment for individuals with co-occurring mental health and substance use disorders. The program also encourages the inclusion of medication-assisted treatment as part of any SUD treatment protocol.

RSAT’s objectives are to:

Enhance the capabilities of state, local, and Indian tribal governments to provide substance use disorder (SUD) treatment to people during detention or incarceration;
Prepare them for their reintegration into a community by incorporating reentry planning activities into their treatment programs; and
And assist them and their communities throughout the reentry process by delivering community-based treatment and other broad-based aftercare services.

Project Details

Project Application Due Date

October 25, 2024

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Amount Available

The amount available for FY 2023 RSAT for State Prisoners Program Formula Grant awards is $583,391. A minimum of 10% of funds available for awards ($64,821) is available for local correctional and detention facilities.

Award period

Applicants may request a grant project duration of 12 months, 18 months, or 24 months between January 1, 2025 - December 31, 2026.

Program Requirements

RSAT funds must be used to support the provision of substance use disorder (SUD) treatment to adult and juvenile populations during detention or incarceration and recovery support and aftercare services post release. RSAT funding may also be used for treatment for co-occurring substance use and mental health disorders, and for medication-assisted treatment (MAT), which is the use of medications in combination with counseling and behavioral therapies for individuals with alcohol and opioid use disorders. Treatment programs and their associated requirements include:

RSAT Program funds may be used to implement three types of programs: residential, jail-based, and aftercare.

Local correctional and detention facility programs in rural and tribal areas will be given priority consideration for RSAT awards.

Residential

Residential SUD treatment programs in prisons and juvenile detention centers must meet all of the following criteria:

● Engage individuals with SUD or co-occurring substance use and mental health disorders for a period of between 6 and 12 months.
● Require periodic/random drug testing of individuals while they are in the program and under community supervision.
● Establish a therapeutic community (i.e., program participants are set apart from the general population).
● Provide aftercare services.

Whenever possible, RSAT residential program participation should be limited to inmates with 6 to 12 months remaining in their confinement.

Residential SUD treatment programs in jails must meet all of the following criteria:

● Engage individuals with SUD or co-occurring substance use and mental health disorders for at least 3 months.
● Require periodic/random drug testing of individuals while they are in the program and under community supervision.
● Make every effort to establish a therapeutic community (i.e., program participants are set apart from the general population).
● Provide aftercare services.

Jail-based

Jail-based SUD treatment programs with pre-trial populations must meet the following criteria:

Must initiate or continue evidence-based SUD treatment programs, including medication-assisted treatment in pretrial populations during their confinement; and/or
Foster connections to SUD treatment in the community
upon pretrial release.
Programs supporting pre-trial populations do not need to meet the criteria for jail-
based residential SUD treatment programs.

Aftercare

Aftercare services must involve coordination of the correctional facility treatment program with other human service and rehabilitation programs, and with the federal assistance for substance abuse treatment and aftercare services currently provided by the Department of Health and Human Services’ Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA). Aftercare services include case management and the full continuum of recovery and aftercare services, which may include:

● Educational and job training programs;
● Parole supervision programs;
● Half-way house programs; and
● Participation in self-help and peer group programs that may aid in the rehabilitation of individuals in the SUD treatment program.

Match/Other Budget Considerations:

This funding opportunity requires a 27% cash or in-kind match. *

Note: Federal funds cannot be used as matching funds. Match is restricted to the same use of funds as allowed for the Federal funds.

*Cash match is an actual cash contribution to the grant project from either the grantee organization’s own funds (general revenue), cash donations, or non-federal grants. In-kind match is a contribution to the grant project, typically in the form of the value of personnel, goods, and services, including direct and indirect costs, either from the grantee organization or a third party.

Eligibility Criteria

Eligibility

State agencies (state prisons and juvenile programs) and units of local and tribal government (local correctional and detention facilities), including federally recognized Indian tribes, as well as community-based service providers, in which residential substance use disorder (SUD) treatment programs are being developed and implemented with inmates with substance use disorders or challenges and/or co-occurring mental health disorders and who are incarcerated for a period of time sufficient to permit substance use treatment.

Local correctional and detention facility programs in rural and tribal areas will be given priority consideration for RSAT awards made with funds set aside for units of local and tribal government.

Project Materials

Grant announcement of available funds, grant applications and instructions can be obtained through the online application system ZOOMGRANTS.

Project Submission

Project applications must be submitted online (ZOOMGRANTS) on or before FRIDAY, October, 25, 2024 at 11:59pm.

PROJECT APPLICATIONS MUST BE SUBMITTED ONLINE.

Failure to submit a complete project application may result in denial of funding.

Questions?

For questions regarding the RSAT application, other than technical issues, please email Amy Miller or call 720-357-4962.

If you experience problems or have questions about how to use ZoomGrants, please contact the DCJ Grant System Manager.