§10751 Grant authorization

Summary

The Attorney General can give grants to States, Indian Tribes, local governments, and community nonprofit groups to pay for clinical services for people with serious mental illness and substance use disorders. The money must help start or keep up treatment, prevent suicide, and support recovery when someone leaves jail or prison. Grants must back programs that do three main things: help criminal and juvenile justice agencies, mental health agencies, and community behavioral health providers work together to stabilize people during pre-trial detention and incarceration and keep care going after release (including peer support, help enrolling in health care, and offering medication such as long-acting injectable medications when appropriate); build or improve crisis response services like hotlines, mobile crisis teams, stabilization centers, peer specialists, and training and planning that include people affected and their families, and look at payment barriers to keep those services going; and train justice and health agencies about serious mental illness, suicide prevention, and recovery supports for justice-involved people. The Attorney General must work with the Secretary of Health and Human Services so the services use proven, evidence-based approaches that help people stay in recovery. “Behavioral health provider” means either a community mental health center meeting the rules in section 300x–2(c) or a certified community behavioral health clinic under section 223(d) of the Protecting Access to Medicare Act of 2014 (42 U.S.C. 1396a note).