Byrne State Crisis Intervention Program (SCIP) Grants for Specialty Courts and Dockets Competitive Grants (VA)

Byrne State Crisis Intervention Program (SCIP) Grants for Specialty Courts and Dockets Competitive Grants (VA)

Status: ACTIVE
Funder: Virginia Department of Criminal Justice Services
Amount: Up to US $150,000
Last Updated: March 22, 2026

Summary

The Byrne State Crisis Intervention Program (SCIP) Grants in Virginia aim to enhance specialty courts and dockets, including recovery courts and behavioral health dockets. This funding supports applicants in increasing program capacity, acceptance, and graduation rates by developing interdisciplinary teams and implementing evidence-based practices. Grants are available for planning, implementation, and enhancement phases, allowing localities to expand existing programs or establish new ones, with a focus on training and resource development.

Overview

The Virginia Department of Criminal Justice Services (DCJS) is accepting applications for the Byrne State Crisis Intervention Program (SCIP) Grant. The goal of this funding initiative is to provide applicants with an opportunity to increase program capacity, program acceptance rates, and graduation rates for recovery courts, behavioral health dockets, and veterans treatment dockets (specialty dockets). Applicants should focus on planning, implementing, and/or enhancing specialty dockets by examining programmatic needs, such as evidence-based curricula, staff training and development, and other treatment resources. Hiring of full-time program staff is discouraged due to the limited grant period. Planning and implementation grants allow localities time to develop interdisciplinary teams to best structure a specialty docket for their locality, receive specialty docket training from the Office of the Executive Secretary (OES) of the Supreme Court of Virginia, Specialty Dockets Division of the Department of Judicial Services, and submit a specialty docket application to OES. It further allows localities time to begin the docket implementation process. Implementation and enhancement grants allow localities that have already gone through the planning phase of developing a specialty docket an opportunity to implement the program. For specialty dockets that are already approved by OES and operating, it is an opportunity to expand or enhance the program. This could be through increased capacity in participants and/or the treatment services provided.

Eligibility

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