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23PR18: Crisis Intervention Teams Training, Curriculum Update, and Train-The-Trainer Pilots

Closed Closed August 17, 2023 Opportunity 23PR18 ☆ Save

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• Award ceiling$1.0 million
• Total funding$1.0 million
• Expected awards1
• Cost sharingNot required
• Funding typeCooperative Agreement

Key dates

Who can apply

This opportunity was open to the applicants described in the notice.

• Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification)

NIC invites applications from nonprofit organizations (including faith-based, community, and tribal organizations), for-profit organizations (including tribal for-profit organizations), and institutions of higher education (including tribal institutions of higher education). Recipients, including for-profit organizations, must agree to waive any profit or fee for services. Foreign governments, international organizations, and non-governmental international organizations/institutions are not eligible to apply. Proof of 501(c) (3) status as determined by the Internal Revenue Service or an authorizing tribal resolution is required.NIC welcomes applications that involve two or more entities; however, one eligible entity must be the applicant and the others must be proposed as subrecipients. The applicant must be the entity with primary responsibility for administering the funding and managing the entire program. Only one (1) application will be accepted from a submitting organization.

Is this a realistic fit?

• No cost sharing or match is required.

What the grant funds

NIC, in partnership with BJA, is soliciting proposals for a 12-month cooperative agreement to provide local jails, prisons, and other confinement settings with CIT training. The awardee will accomplish tasks that address the following four components: (1) review and revise the existing 40-hour CIT classroom-based training, (2) develop a CIT train-the-trainer curriculum that addresses major issues that agencies face, including those issues faced by rural and tribal agencies, (3) establish a refresher CIT training for agencies that have implemented the NIC CIT partnership training, and (4) deliver the newly developed and revised training programs to selected agencies. The curriculum is to apply the Instructional Theory Into Practice (ITIP) model of instruction.[DL1] All deliverables are to be reviewed and approved both by NIC and BJA. This cooperative agreement is for the delivery of 15 cycles of training [DL2] to local jails, prisons, and other confinement settings. For the first component, the awardee will be expected to review and update the existing 40-hour CIT classroom-based training program designed to be delivered to 30 participants. This program offers participants an opportunity to increase their knowledge and skills regarding the behavioral characteristics of mental health disorders and gives them the tools needed to create time and space to de-escalate situations involving an incarcerated individual experiencing a mental health crisis. The award recipient will update the current training and ensure it supports the adult learning process and comports with sound instructional design and quality. The contents of the 40-hour CIT program include: a brief history of the CIT Memphis model; the viewing of the PBS video entitled “The New Asylum”; management strategies related to the incarceration of the seriously mentally ill; basic psycho-education training on mental health conditions; being trauma-informed in the carceral system; consumer and family conversations; field/site visit to a mental health treatment or diversion center; core skills training - active listening and verbal de-escalation; eight-hour roleplaying scenarios; hearing voices exercises; self-care and compassion fatigue discussions; psychopharmacology education; legal considerations; review of agency policy and procedures regarding the CIT program; and a review of agency policy and procedures regarding the use of force.

Category: Other.

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