DPS is seeking proposals from eligible applicants to provide programs designed to assist persons with presumed substance use disorder using liaison strategies both before and after arrest to refer alleged low-level (non-felony) offenders into community-based treatment and support services. Funds may be used to provide individual and group treatment activities. These projects must be designed to facilitate pathways to evidence-based, community-based treatment, medically assisted treatment, and/or recovery and support services.

Program Requirements

1. Municipal or county governments or regional jails for programs designed to assist persons with presumed substance use disorder by using liaison strategies both before and after arrest to refer alleged low-level offenders into community-based treatment and support services. Programs may include, but are not limited to:
• Referral of participants in the Substance Use Disorder Assistance Program to evidence-based treatment programs, including medically assisted treatment; and
• Provision of case management services to participants in order to secure appropriate treatment and support services such as housing, health care, job training, and mental health services.
2. County governments for programs in the county jails designed to facilitate the accessing by persons with presumed substance use disorder of post-adjudication diversion and reentry programs. Programs may include, but are not limited to: 
• Provision of evidence-based treatment programs, including medically assisted treatment, to jail inmates; and
• Provision of case management or other support services to participants to assist in the transition from jail upon release. 
3. Municipal governments for programs designed to facilitate pathways to community-based treatment, recovery, and support services for persons with substance use disorder who present themselves to municipal law enforcement agencies and request assistance and referral to evidence-based treatment programs, including medically assisted treatment.

Allowable uses of funds can include, but are not limited to, the following:

1. Licensed Addiction Counselor
2. Treatment therapist, family therapy
3. Case management services
4. Medically assisted treatment
5. Health care
6. Job training  

Allowable costs are those cost principles identified in the State Administrative and Accounting Manual, authorizing legislation, and the Substance Use Disorder Assistance Program grant requirements and solicitation. In addition, costs must be reasonable, allocable, necessary to the project, and comply with the funding statute requirements.

Estimated Total Program Funding: