The Shelter and Services Program (SSP) makes available federal funds to eligible recipients and subrecipients for costs associated with providing shelter and other eligible services to noncitizen migrants who have been encountered and released by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
Recipients
credit:
of SSP may also seek grant funds for renovations or costs associated with modifications to existing facilities in support of individuals who have recently been released from the custody of U. S. Customs and Border Protection.The priority of SSP is the safe, orderly, and humane release of noncitizen migrants from DHS short-term holding facilities, and the objectives are to provide funding to non-federal entities that serve noncitizen migrants recently released from DHS custody to temporarily provide shelter, food, transportation, acute medical care, personal hygiene supplies, and labor necessary to manage cases to provide these services; and to provide funding to non-federal entities to increase their capacity to temporarily shelter noncitizen migrants recently released from DHS custody, including renovations and modifications to existing facilities.Applicants can submit applications for this funding opportunity through FEMA Grants Outcomes (GO).
Access the system at https://go.fema.gov/.
Obtain Full Opportunity Text:femago@fema.dhs.gov
Additional Information of Eligibility:Applicants are limited to states, units of local government, federally recognized Indian tribes (as determined by the Secretary of the Interior), and tribal organizations.
BJA will only accept applications that demonstrate that the proposed project will be administered jointly by an agency with responsibility for criminal or juvenile justice activities and a mental health agency.
Only one agency is responsible for the submission of the application in Grants.gov.
This lead agency must be a state agency, unit of local government, federally recognized Indian tribe, or tribal organization.
Per Pub.
L.
108-414, a criminal or juvenile justice agency is an agency of state or local government or its contracted agency that is responsible for detection, arrest, enforcement, prosecution, defense, adjudication, incarceration, probation, or parole relating to the violation of the criminal laws of that state or local government (sec.
2991(a)(3)).
A mental health agency is an agency of state or local government or its contracted agency that is responsible for mental health services or co-occurring mental health and substance abuse services (sec.
2991(a)(5)).
A substance abuse agency is considered an eligible applicant if that agency provides services to individuals suffering from co-occurring mental health and substance abuse disorders.
Full Opportunity Web Address:femago@fema.dhs.govContact: Agency Email Description: femago@fema.dhs.gov
Agency Email: Date Posted: 2023-06-12
Application Due Date: Archive Date: 2023-08-11