View all text of Subchapter XXXIII [§ 10651 - § 10653]
§ 10652. National criminal justice and mental health training and technical assistance
(a) Authority
(b) Eligible organization
(c) Use of fundsAny organization that receives a grant under subsection (a) shall collaborate with other grant recipients to establish and operate a National Criminal Justice and Mental Health Training and Technical Assistance Center to—
(1) provide law enforcement officer training regarding mental health and working with individuals with mental illnesses, with an emphasis on de-escalation of encounters between law enforcement officers and those with mental disorders or in crisis, which shall include support the development of in-person and technical information exchanges between systems and the individuals working in those systems in support of the concepts identified in the training;
(2) provide education, training, and technical assistance for States, Indian tribes, territories, units of local government, service providers, nonprofit organizations, probation or parole officers, prosecutors, defense attorneys, emergency response providers, and corrections institutions to advance practice and knowledge relating to mental health crisis and approaches to mental health and criminal justice across systems;
(3) provide training and best practices to mental health providers and criminal justice agencies relating to diversion initiatives, jail and prison strategies, reentry of individuals with mental illnesses into the community, and dispatch protocols and triage capabilities, including the establishment of learning sites;
(4) develop suicide prevention and crisis intervention training and technical assistance for criminal justice agencies;
(5) develop a receiving center system and pilot strategy that provides, for a jurisdiction, a single point of entry into the mental health and substance abuse system for assessments and appropriate placement of individuals experiencing a crisis;
(6) collect data and best practices in mental health and criminal health and criminal justice initiatives and policies from grantees under this subchapter, other recipients of grants under this section, Federal, State, and local agencies involved in the provision of mental health services, and nongovernmental organizations involved in the provision of mental health services;
(7) develop and disseminate to mental health providers and criminal justice agencies evaluation tools, mechanisms, and measures to better assess and document performance measures and outcomes relating to the provision of mental health services;
(8) disseminate information to States, units of local government, criminal justice agencies, law enforcement agencies, and other relevant entities about best practices, policy standards, and research findings relating to the provision of mental health services; and
(9) provide education and support to individuals with mental illness involved with, or at risk of involvement with, the criminal justice system, including the families of such individuals.
(d) AccountabilityGrants awarded under this section shall be subject to the following accountability provisions:
(1) Audit requirement
(A) Definition
(B) Audits
(C) Final audit report
(D) Mandatory exclusion
(E) Priority
(F) ReimbursementIf an entity receives a grant under this section during the 2-fiscal-year period during which the entity is prohibited from receiving grants under subparagraph (D), the Attorney General shall—
(i) deposit an amount equal to the amount of the grant that was improperly awarded to the grantee into the General Fund of the Treasury; and
(ii) seek to recoup the costs of the repayment under clause (i) from the grantee that was erroneously awarded grant funds.
(2) Nonprofit agency requirements
(A) Definition
(B) Prohibition
(C) Disclosure
(3) Conference expenditures
(A) Limitation
(B) Written approval
(C) Report
(4) Annual certificationBeginning in the first fiscal year beginning after December 13, 2016, the Attorney General shall submit to the Committee on the Judiciary and the Committee on Appropriations of the Senate and the Committee on the Judiciary and the Committee on Appropriations of the House of Representatives an annual certification—
(A) indicating whether—
(i) all final audit reports issued by the Office of the Inspector General under paragraph (1) have been completed and reviewed by the appropriate Assistant Attorney General or Director;
(ii) all mandatory exclusions required under paragraph (1)(D) have been issued; and
(iii) any reimbursements required under paragraph (1)(F) have been made; and
(B) that includes a list of any grantees excluded under paragraph (1)(D) from the previous year.
(5) Preventing duplicative grants
(A) In general
(B) ReportIf the Attorney General awards duplicate grants to the same applicant for the same purpose the Attorney General shall submit to the Committee on the Judiciary of the Senate and the Committee on the Judiciary of the House of Representatives a report that includes—
(i) a list of all duplicate grants awarded, including the total dollar amount of any duplicate grants awarded; and
(ii) the reason the Attorney General awarded the duplicate grants.
(Pub. L. 90–351, title I, § 2992, as added Pub. L. 114–255, div. B, title XIV, § 14014, Dec. 13, 2016, 130 Stat. 1303.)