Grant Details

The Second Chance Act: Reentry for Co-Occurring Substance Abuse and Mental Disorders is designed to improve access to and delivery of services to offenders with co-occurring substance abuse and mental illness when they leave incarceration to reenter the community. The Department recognizes that a significant number of these adult offenders are in need of treatment in order to successfully complete their supervision, which in turn will reduce recidivism and promote public safety. Coordination among corrections, substance abuse and mental health treatment providers, correctional health, and parole or probation enables the development of collaborative comprehensive case plans that address criminogenic risk, substance abuse, and mental health needs. 

Co-occurring disorders refers to co-occurring substance-related and mental disorders. Clients said to have COD have one or more substance-related disorder as well as one or more mental disorder. At the individual level, COD exist when at least one disorder of each type can be established independent of the other and is not simply a cluster of symptoms resulting from [a single] disorder.”

Allowable Program Activities Include:

• Continue and improve drug treatment programs, including the provision of medication assisted treatment, provided at a prison, jail, or juvenile facility.
• Provide prison-based family treatment programs to incarcerated parents of minor children or pregnant women.
• Develop and implement programs for supervised long-term substance abusers that include alcohol and drug abuse assessments, coordinated and continuous delivery of drug treatment, and case management services. 
• Strengthen rehabilitation efforts for offenders by providing addiction recovery support services.
• Provide for salaries, personnel costs, facility costs, and other costs directly related to the operation of that program.

OJP Policy Priority Areas In FY 2020, and in addition to executing any program-specific prioritization that may be applicable, OJP will give priority consideration to applications as follows:

• Applications from federally-recognized tribes
• Applications that address specific challenges that rural communities face.
• Applications that demonstrate that the individuals who are intended to benefit from the requested grant reside in high-poverty areas or persistent-poverty counties.
• Applications that offer enhancements to public safety in economically distressed communities (Qualified Opportunity Zones).
• Where the application is from a State or local government entity that operates at least one correctional facility (as defined at 34 U.S.C. 10251(a)(7)), applications that go to enhancing criminal justice and public safety by indicating agreement to comply with award conditions related to cooperation with federal law enforcement, as set forth in Appendix C.