$371M in DOJ grants available to make Wisconsin communities safer.
Byline: Michaela Paukner, mpaukner@wislawjournal.com
More than $371 million in Department of Justice grants areon offerto help places around Wisconsin tackle addiction, school security, human trafficking and recidivism, the Eastern District of Wisconsin announced on Thursday.
In a press release, U.S. Attorney Matthew Krueger said more than $163 million will be used to fight addiction. The money will support a number of services, including programs designed to present overdose deaths and end the cycle of addiction and crime.
In addition, morethan $83 millionwill go toward improving school security and protect students, teachers and faculty from threats of violence. The initiatives include programs designed to tighten school security and improve threat reporting.
Another $65 million in grants will be used to help fight human trafficking and serve victims of trafficking operations in Wisconsin. Programs should support human-trafficking task forces and services for survivors.
Nearly $60 million in grants is allocated to programspromoting the successful reentry of adult and juvenile offenders into society. The grants also pay for research projects to improve knowledge about what makes reentry programs successful.
Funding opportunities are open for the following programs in each category:
Addiction crisis
Adult Drug Court and Veterans Treatment Court Discretionary Grant Program
Comprehensive Opioid, Stimulant, and Substance Abuse Site-based Program (COSSAP)
Enhancing Community Responses to America's Addiction Crisis: Serving Our Youngest Crime Victims
Family Drug Court Program
Harold Rogers Prescription Drug Monitoring Program (PDMP)
Juvenile Drug Treatment Court Program
Mentoring Opportunities for Youth Initiative
Opioid Affected Youth Initiative
Research and Evaluation on Drugs and Crime
Residential Substance Abuse Treatment (RSAT) for State Prisoners Program
School safety
Research and Evaluation on School Safety
STOP Act School Violence Program
Strategies to Support Children Exposed to Violence
Preventing human trafficking
Missing and Exploited Children Training and Technical Assistance Program
Multidisciplinary Task Force Program to Combat Human Trafficking
Preventing Trafficking of Girls
Research and Evaluation on Trafficking in Persons
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