BJA FY 19 Comprehensive Opioid Abuse Program Training and Technical Assistance (TTA) Program | BJA 2019 15093

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The BJA FY 19 Comprehensive Opioid Abuse Program Training and Technical Assistance (TTA) Program is a U.S. Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) discretionary funding opportunity designed to strengthen the national response to the opioid crisis by building the capacity of justice and treatment systems through training and technical assistance. The program’s central idea is to support a comprehensive, coordinated, and balanced strategy that expands prevention and education while also advancing treatment and recovery. Rather than funding direct local service delivery as the primary purpose, this solicitation focuses on selecting organizations that can serve as TTA providers, helping agencies and communities implement effective opioid-related interventions and improve cross-system collaboration.

Under this solicitation, BJA planned to select five separate TTA providers to support the broader Comprehensive Opioid Abuse Program (COAP). These providers were expected to deliver training, resources, and hands-on technical assistance to tribal, state, and local criminal justice agencies, substance use disorder treatment agencies, prescription drug monitoring programs (PDMPs), and partner organizations nationwide. A key audience includes sites selected under the related Comprehensive Opioid Abuse Site-based Program solicitation, meaning the TTA providers would help those grantees translate grant goals into operational practices, improve program implementation, and troubleshoot challenges in real time. The solicitation also emphasizes reaching communities nationwide that are impacted by the opioid epidemic, reflecting an intention to spread evidence-informed approaches beyond a narrow set of funded jurisdictions.

A defining feature of the opportunity is the expectation that the awardees operate as a coordinated group rather than as isolated providers. The five selected organizations would work collaboratively within the COAP TTA Network, aligning tools, guidance, and support so that jurisdictions receive consistent messages and compatible assistance across different topic areas. In practice, a network approach typically aims to reduce duplication, fill gaps in expertise, and make it easier for local and tribal partners to access the right kind of help, whether that involves prevention strategies, justice-system responses, treatment and recovery partnerships, or the use of data systems such as PDMPs.

This opportunity was offered as a cooperative agreement, which generally indicates substantial involvement by the federal agency in guiding, coordinating, or partnering on key aspects of the work compared with a standard grant. The funding opportunity number is BJA-2019-15093, associated with CFDA 16.838. The solicitation was posted on March 25, 2019, with an original closing date of May 28, 2019. BJA anticipated making five awards, with an award ceiling of $5,000,000.

Eligibility was broad and included public and state-controlled institutions of higher education, private institutions of higher education, federally recognized Native American tribal governments, nonprofits with IRS 501(c)(3) status (other than institutions of higher education), for-profit organizations other than small businesses, and small businesses. The listed funding activity categories span several domains, including health, labor and training, information and statistics, science and technology and other research and development, and related areas, reflecting the cross-cutting nature of opioid response work that sits at the intersection of public health, public safety, and data-informed policy and practice.

Overall, the BJA FY 19 COAP TTA Program is best understood as a national capacity-building effort: BJA sought to fund a small number of highly capable organizations to provide structured training and targeted technical assistance that helps justice and treatment stakeholders respond more effectively to opioid misuse and overdose, strengthen prevention and education, and support pathways to treatment and long-term recovery, while coordinating those supports through a unified COAP TTA Network.

• The Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Assistance in the consumer protection, employment, labor and training, health, humanities (see cultural affairs in cfda), information and statistics, science and technology and other research and development sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "BJA FY 19 Comprehensive Opioid Abuse Program Training and Technical Assistance (TTA) 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 Mar 25, 2019.
• Applicants must submit their applications by May 28, 2019. (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 $5,000,000.00 in funding.
• The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 5 candidate(s).
• Eligible applicants include: Public and State controlled institutions of higher education, Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized), Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education, Private institutions of higher education, For profit organizations other than small businesses, Small businesses.

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