BJA FY 2026 Comprehensive Opioid, Stimulant, and Substance Use Site-Based Program
Supports state, territorial, local, and tribal government-led site-based programs to respond to opioid, stimulant, and other substance use through law enforcement-related activities, overdose prevention and reversal medication access, treatment and recovery support services, and reentry/correctional-facility services.
RESTRICTED TO: STATE LOCAL GOV · TRIBAL ENTITIES
⚑ Universities are not eligible applicants under this notice; eligibility is limited to state, territorial, local, and tribal governments. · Program funds law-enforcement-related activities plus prevention, treatment, recovery, and reentry services; this is not a research award. · Likely requires local government/tribal governmental lead and may involve partnership with service providers or researchers only as subrecipients/contractors if allowed by the NOFO.
Unit fits — one characterization, each unit's own rules
| IPPRA | 15 none | university cannot apply directly (ineligible) |
| Physical Sciences & Engineering (demo) | 15 none | university cannot apply directly (ineligible) |
| Tom Love Innovation Hub | 10 none | deep-tech content; no commercialization signal |
Description
This is a notice of funding opportunity (NOFO) for the BJA FY 2026 Comprehensive Opioid, Stimulant, and Substance Use Site-Based Program (COSSUP). This opportunity supports the development, implementation, or expansion of comprehensive programs in response to overdose deaths, illicit opioids, stimulants, and other substances. Through this program, state, territorial, local, and tribal governments can support law enforcement-related activities, including efforts to locate and investigate illicit activities related to the unlawful distribution of opioids; increase access to prevention programs and overdose reversal medications; and expand treatment and recovery support services in the community, within correctional facilities, and upon reentry.
Eligibility
Other Units of Local Government: For the purposes of this notice of funding opportunity, other units of local government include towns, boroughs, parishes, villages, or other general purpose political subdivisions of a state.
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View on Grants.gov → CONTACT: Bureau of Justice Assistance <OJP.ResponseCenter@usdoj.gov>
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