BJA FY 22 Comprehensive Opioid, Stimulant, and Substance Abuse Site-based Program | O BJA 2022 171280

Opportunity Information: Apply for O BJA 2022 171280

The Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA), within the U.S. Department of Justice, offered the FY 2022 Comprehensive Opioid, Stimulant, and Substance Abuse Site-based Program, commonly known as COSSAP. This is a discretionary grant opportunity (Funding Opportunity Number O-BJA-2022-171280; CFDA 16.838) intended to help communities mount a coordinated response to illicit opioids, stimulants, and other substance misuse. The overarching framing aligns with the Office of Justice Programs (OJP) priorities: advancing civil rights and racial equity, expanding access to justice, supporting crime victims and people impacted by the justice system, strengthening community safety, addressing evolving public safety threats, and improving trust between law enforcement and the communities they serve.

COSSAP is designed to fund practical, on-the-ground (site-based) work that helps jurisdictions plan, build, and implement comprehensive strategies to identify people affected by substance use, respond effectively to overdose and related harms, connect individuals to treatment, and support longer-term recovery. The program emphasizes that substance use issues intersect with public safety and the justice system, so the goal is not just enforcement, but a full continuum of prevention, harm reduction, treatment, and recovery supports that can operate both in the community and within justice settings (such as jails, courts, probation, and reentry services). A central outcome focus is reducing overdose deaths while also promoting public safety and improving service access for individuals and families impacted by substance use.

A key feature of this opportunity is the expectation of cross-system planning and coordination. In practice, that means bringing together stakeholders who often operate in separate lanes, such as law enforcement, prosecutors and courts, corrections and community supervision, public health agencies, behavioral health and treatment providers, recovery support organizations, and community-based groups. The emphasis is on delivering interventions that are evidence-based and culturally relevant, reflecting the reality that effective responses differ by community, population, and local drug trends. The program description also signals that equity and culturally responsive approaches are not optional add-ons, but a core part of how interventions should be designed and delivered.

In terms of basic award information, the grant ceiling listed for this opportunity was $6,000,000 per award, with an anticipated 83 awards. The opportunity was posted on April 18, 2022, and had an original application closing date of June 13, 2022. Eligible applicants are described broadly in the listing as “Others,” with the detailed eligibility clarified in the opportunity’s additional eligibility guidance; however, the program description indicates the primary intended recipients include states, units of local government, and tribal governments, reflecting COSSAP’s focus on supporting governmental entities and their partners to implement coordinated, jurisdiction-wide responses.

Overall, this FY 2022 COSSAP site-based solicitation aimed to give communities the resources to build comprehensive, collaborative strategies that address substance use as both a public health and public safety challenge. It supports initiatives that improve identification and outreach, strengthen linkage to treatment and recovery, expand prevention and harm-reduction access, and improve coordination across systems, with the larger DOJ/OJP goals of equity, justice access, victim support, community safety, and community trust serving as the guiding context.

• The Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Assistance in the law, justice and legal services sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "BJA FY 22 Comprehensive Opioid, Stimulant, and Substance Abuse Site-based Program" and is now available to receive applicants.
• Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 16.838.
• This funding opportunity was created on Apr 18, 2022.
• Applicants must submit their applications by Jun 13, 2022. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
• Each selected applicant is eligible to receive up to $6,000,000.00 in funding.
• The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 83 candidate(s).
• Eligible applicants include: Others (see text field entitled Additional Information on Eligibility for clarification).

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