BJA FY 2026 Crisis Response Training Program
Funds crisis response training programs for eligible law enforcement-related public entities to improve responses to people in crisis, including those with behavioral health conditions, disabilities, or brain injuries.
RESTRICTED TO: STATE LOCAL GOV
⚑ Eligibility is limited to units of local government and public/state-controlled institutions of higher education or hospitals with on-campus police departments. · University eligibility is only for public or state-controlled institutions with an on-campus police department. · Focus is training/capacity-building for law enforcement and correctional crisis response, not research. · Award ceiling: $650,000.
This is primarily a law-enforcement training implementation program aimed at officer tactics and crisis response operations, which is outside IPPRA’s core survey/risk/public-opinion/evaluation lines. The team could perhaps evaluate such a program if partnered in a secondary role, but it is not a plausible PI-level fit for any roster member.
JUDGED AGAINST THE ROSTER'S PUBLICATION DOSSIER · GPT-5.4-MINI · 2026-08-26
Unit fits — one characterization, each unit's own rules
| IPPRA | 40 partial | peripheral portfolio topic: public_health; signature methods: community engaged, policy analysis; social/behavioral work is minor; funds training education, not research (capped); capped at 40 (non-research funding) |
| Physical Sciences & Engineering (demo) | 25 weak | technical depth: minor; funds training education (capped) |
| Tom Love Innovation Hub | 5 none | no commercialization signal |
Description
This is a notice of funding opportunity (NOFO) for the BJA FY 2026 Crisis Response Training Program. This opportunity supports state, local, and tribal governments, law enforcement agencies, correctional facilities, probation and parole departments, and sheriffs’ offices in developing, implementing, or expanding crisis response training programs that enhance public safety, officer safety, and operational effectiveness by improving law enforcement responses to individuals in crisis who have behavioral health conditions (including mental health and substance use disorders), intellectual and developmental disabilities (I/DDs), physical disabilities, and/or traumatic brain injuries. This program will equip law enforcement and correctional officers with tactical skills and strategies, and technology to effectively address crisis situations and enhance public safety. Officers trained in crisis intervention techniques are better equipped to safely mitigate volatile situations involving individuals experiencing behavioral health crises, including those with I/DDs.
Eligibility
Units of local government; Public and state-controlled institutions of higher education with on-campus police departments; Public or state-controlled hospitals with on-campus police departments. For the purposes of this NOFO, other units of local government include towns, boroughs, parishes, villages, or other general purpose political subdivisions of a state.
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