CY 25 Byrne State Crisis Intervention Program (SCIP) Grants for Specialty Courts and Dockets Competitive Grants

The Virginia Department of Criminal Justice Services (DCJS) is accepting applications for the 2025 Byrne State Crisis Intervention Program (SCIP) Grant. The awards will be for competitive grants, which will begin September 1, 2025. The goal of this funding initiative is to provide applicants with an opportunity to increase program capacity, program acceptance rates, and graduation rates for recovery courts, behavioral health dockets, and veterans treatment dockets (specialty dockets).

Applicants should focus on planning, implementing, and/or enhancing specialty dockets by examining programmatic needs, such as evidence-based curricula, staff training and development, and other treatment resources. Hiring of full-time program staff is discouraged due to the limited grant period.

Planning and implementation grants allow localities time to develop interdisciplinary teams to best structure a specialty docket for their locality, receive specialty docket training from the Office of the Executive Secretary (OES) of the Supreme Court of Virginia, Specialty Dockets Division of the Department of Judicial Services, and submit a specialty docket application to OES. It further allows localities time to begin the docket implementation process.

Implementation and enhancement grants allow localities that have already gone through the planning phase of developing a specialty docket an opportunity to implement the program. For specialty dockets that are already approved by OES and operating, it is an opportunity to expand or enhance the program. This could be through increased capacity in participants and/or the treatment services provided.

Applicants will need a letter of support from the Office of the Executive Secretary (OES) of the Supreme Court of Virginia, Specialty Dockets Division of the Department of Judicial Services.

The grant period is 22-months, September 1, 2025, through June 30, 2027.