Types of JDP Grants
Crisis Intervention Team (CIT) Grants - Purpose is to initiate a new Crisis Intervention Team model for use within a large, single police department or a region of small police departments. Often a multi-year grant but can be a single year as well.
CIT Technical Assistance Center (CIT-TTAC) Grants - Purpose is to provide regional centers that provide both training and support services to police departments that adopt a CIT model. The centers provide a set number of courses per year for a set number of slots, and also provide follow-up technical consultation to participating police departments.
Co-Response Grants - These are multi-year grants to support municipalities to hire or sub-contract for a behavioral health clinician that would be added to the workforce within the police department (or departments if the program is regional). In addition to duties within the station, the clinician is also available to police for ride-alongs on shifts with the highest volume calls that have behavioral health needs.
Co-Response Technical Assistance Center (CR-TTAC) Grants - Purpose is to provide regional centers that provide training and support services to co-response clinicians and their police colleagues in departments that adopt a Co-response model. The centers provide training opportunities, orientation services as well as assistance with recruitment of personnel on behalf of participating police departments.
Component JDP Grants - These are multi-year grants to support municipalities to implement a Jail/Arrest Diversion program that is tailored to the local need/readiness of that community. For instance, a community may request support for a combination of training, consultation, CIT start-up and/or support for a coresponder.
Training/Backfill Grants - These are one year grants for streamlined reimbursement for backfill costs and training fees (if applicable) for local police departments to send personnel to DMH-sponsored Crisis Intervention Training (10-20 officers), Mental Health First Aid trainings, and/or national conferences related to CIT or other approved practices.
Trainer/Consultant Grants - Purpose is to provide direct payment to individuals and/or organizations that can provide professional consultation services, statewide or regionally, to police departments at any stage of development of their CIT program, TTAC, Co-Response program, or Component Jail/Arrest Diversion program. These grants can also fund individuals who can provide subject matter expert training on a CIT training topic(s) or can provide certified training on Mental Health First Aid or other related trainings.
Drop-Off Center Grants - Drop-Off center grants are intended to enhance a pre-existing program/service site in order to add capacity/capability to readily receive individuals brought by police as an arrest diversion with little or no notice and with immediate to mid-term needs for assistance, assessment, de-escalation, stabilization & referral to appropriate follow-up.
Crisis Intervention Teams (CIT) & CIT Training and Technical Assistance Centers (CIT-TTAC)
Crisis Intervention Teams (CIT) serve to support police departments to establish a Crisis Intervention Team model in their departments.
Training and Technical Assistance Centers are funded to provide recruitment, training and mentoring of clinicians for co-response models, and to provide technical assistance on co-response models to departments.
Crisis Intervention Teams (CIT)
| Amherst | CIT |
| Fall River | CIT |
| Greenfield | CIT |
| Somerville | CIT |
| Springfield | CIT |
| Worcester |
CIT |
Crisis Intervention Team Training & Technical Assistance Centers (CIT TTAC)
| Aspire Health Alliance | CIT TTAC |
| Behavioral Health Network, Inc. | CIT TTAC |
| Boston | CIT TTAC |
| Brookline | CIT TTAC |
| Open Sky |
CIT TTAC |
| Somerville | CIT TTAC |
| Worcester | CIT TTAC |
| Taunton | CIT-TTAC |
Component JDP
Component Programs serve to support community Jail/Arrest Diversion activities that are tailored to local needs, including addressing behavioral health areas, linkage to communities, training opportunities.
| Barnstable | Component JDP |
| Brockton | Component JDP |
| Dennis | Component JDP |
| Everett | Component JDP |
| Fitchburg | Component JDP |
| Holyoke | Component JDP |
| Malden | Component JDP |
| Medford | Component JDP |
| Winthrop | Component JDP |
| Yarmouth | Component JDP |
| Winthrop | Component JDP |
| Northbridge | Component JDP (Regional) |
Co-Response
Co-response programs serve to support embedding a clinician in a police department to assist with behavioral health related needs.
| Advocates, Inc. (Framingham) | Co-Response |
| Arlington | Co-Response |
| Boston | Co-Response |
| Chelsea | Co-Response |
| Framingham | Co-Response |
| Lowell | Co-Response |
| Lynn | Co-Response |
| Marlborough | Co-Response |
| Natick | Co-Response |
| Northampton | Co-Response |
| Quincy | Co-Response |
| Randolph | Co-Response |
| Waltham | Co-Response |
| Watertown | Co-Response |
| Danvers | Co-Response & CIT |
| Salem | Co-Response & CIT |
| Wakefield |
Co-Response & CIT |
| Advocates, Inc. |
Co-Response TTAC |
| Ashland | Co-Response, Regional |
| Bedford | Co-Response, Regional |
| Beverly | Co-Response, Regional |
| Braintree | Co-Response, Regional |
| Bridgewater | Co-Response, Regional |
| Franklin | Co-Response, Regional |
| Hudson | Co-Response, Regional |
| Pepperell | Co-Response, Regional |
| Stoneham | Co-Response, Regional |
| Tewksbury | Co-Response, Regional |
| Westborough | Co-Response, Regional |
| Weymouth | Co-Response, Regional |
JDP Trainer/Consultant
The purpose of these grants is to provide specialized training and consulting services as needed to grantees.
| NAMI Massachusetts | JDP Trainer/Consultant |
Police Drop-Off Center
Police Drop-Off Centers work to provide a facility where individuals experiencing acute needs can be safely transported by police departments and assessed by clinical staff 24/7. Stabilization and linkage to services are provided as part of the care.
| Behavioral Health Network, Inc. | Police Drop-Off Center |
Statewide Information & Referral Service
| NAMI Massachusetts | Statewide I & R Service |
Training/Backfill Reimbursement Grants
These are one year grants for streamlined reimbursement for backfill costs and training fees (if applicable) for local police departments to send personnel to DMH-sponsored Crisis Intervention Training (10-20 officers), Mental Health First Aid trainings, and/or national conferences related to CIT or other approved practices.
Center for Police Training in Crisis Intervention
The Massachusetts Department of Mental Health is developing a Center For Police Training In Crisis Intervention (The Center). The Center will be available to municipal police and other public safety personnel throughout the Commonwealth. Chapter 208 of the Acts of 2018 established within DMH a Center For Police Training In Crisis Intervention, subject to appropriation.
The Center will be a source and a clearinghouse for cost-effective, evidence-based mental health and substance use and crisis intervention training programs for law enforcement agencies and other public safety personnel. It will support, coordinate, promote, facilitate and take inventory of training opportunities that are provided directly by grant-funded regional Training & Technical Assistance Centers (TTACs) and other related grant-funded projects supported by DMH.