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§ 290bb–38. Grants for jail diversion programs
(a) Program authorized
(b) Administration
(1) Consultation
(2) Regulatory authority
(c) Applications
(1) In general
(2) ContentSuch application shall—
(A) contain an assurance that—
(i) community-based mental health services will be available for the individuals who are diverted from the criminal justice system, and that such services are based on evidence-based practices, reflect current research findings, include case management, assertive community treatment, medication management and access, integrated mental health and co-occurring substance use disorder treatment, peer recovery support services, and psychiatric rehabilitation, and will be coordinated with social services, including life skills training, housing placement, vocational training, education job placement, and health care;
(ii) there has been relevant interagency collaboration between the appropriate criminal justice, mental health, and substance use disorder systems; and
(iii) the Federal support provided will be used to supplement, and not supplant, State, local, Indian Tribe, or Tribal organization sources of funding that would otherwise be available;
(B) demonstrate that the diversion program will be integrated with an existing system of care for those with mental illness;
(C) explain the applicant’s inability to fund the program adequately without Federal assistance;
(D) specify plans for obtaining necessary support and continuing the proposed program following the conclusion of Federal support; and
(E) describe methodology and outcome measures that will be used in evaluating the program.
(d) Special consideration regarding veterans
(e) Use of fundsA State, political subdivision of a State, Indian Tribe, or Tribal organization that receives a grant under subsection (a) may use funds received under such grant to—
(1) integrate the diversion program into the existing system of care;
(2) create or expand community-based mental health and co-occurring mental illness and substance use disorder services to accommodate the diversion program;
(3) train professionals and paraprofessionals involved in the system of care, and law enforcement officers, attorneys, and judges;
(4) provide community outreach and crisis intervention; and
(5) develop programs to divert individuals prior to booking, arrest, or release.
(f) Federal share
(1) In general
(2) Federal share
(3) Non-Federal share
(g) Geographic distribution
(h) Training and technical assistance
(i) Evaluations
(j) Authorization of appropriations
(July 1, 1944, ch. 373, title V, § 520G, as added Pub. L. 106–310, div. B, title XXXII, § 3210, Oct. 17, 2000, 114 Stat. 1201; amended Pub. L. 114–255, div. B, title IX, § 9002, Dec. 13, 2016, 130 Stat. 1234; Pub. L. 117–328, div. FF, title I, § 1216, Dec. 29, 2022, 136 Stat. 5669.)