The Virginia Department of Criminal Justice Services (DCJS) is accepting applications for the CY 2027-2028 Byrne State Crisis Intervention Program (SCIP) Grant for Specialty Courts and Dockets, OGMS funding opportunity 579014. The program supports planning, implementation, expansion, and enhancement of recovery courts, behavioral health dockets, and veterans treatment dockets.
Funding and Deadline
DCJS anticipates approximately $2,841,489 in total funding. Applications must request at least $50,000 for the grant award period. The guidelines do not state an individual maximum award. No matching funds are required, and disbursement is on a cost-reimbursement basis.
The award period is January 1, 2027 through September 30, 2028. Applications are due in OGMS on October 13, 2026 at 12:00 p.m. (noon). The controlling guidelines do not separately state a time zone, so Atlas does not infer one. Under Atlas’s 48-hour new-applicant outreach rule, new outreach must stop by October 11, 2026 at 12:00 noon on the same published clock basis unless DCJS authoritatively changes the deadline.
Eligible Applicants
This funding opportunity is open only to local units of government. Applicants must maintain a current active SAM.gov registration and UEI, must not be excluded or debarred from doing business with the federal government or the Commonwealth of Virginia, and must hold required professional and state licenses and certifications. Applicants must also provide a letter of support from the Office of the Executive Secretary of the Supreme Court of Virginia, Specialty Dockets Division.
Funded programs must provide evidence-based treatment services, maintain specialty-docket data in the OES DIMS database, comply with applicable Virginia Best Practice Standards, and permit eligible participants who are prescribed FDA-approved medications for substance use disorder to enter and remain in the program. Current DCJS grant recipients may be ineligible if required claims or reports are more than 30 days overdue at the application deadline without an approved extension.
Program Scope
The solicitation is designed to improve specialty-docket capacity, acceptance rates, and graduation rates. Eligible activities may include planning and implementation work, treatment resources, supportive services, evidence-based curricula, stakeholder training, case-management or peer-support capacity, and direct payments to vendors for participant goods or services that improve program completion, such as recovery housing or transportation-related assistance.
Direct-Vendor, Equipment and N9+ Fit
The guidelines allow consultant services when reasonable, necessary, and justified. Equipment is allowable only when it is a necessary and incidental part of an approved project. Examples include laptops, printers, copiers, cellphones, and related service used by grant-funded staff, with costs prorated to the grant-supported work. Participant goods or services must be paid directly to the vendor.
Atlas Opportunity Score: 92/100. N9+ Fit Score: 48/100 — CONDITIONAL. N9+ is not an eligible applicant and should not be introduced in initial outreach. A defensible vendor role would require an eligible locality to document that a specific technology or service is necessary and incidental to the approved specialty-docket project, reasonably priced, and properly supported in the budget. The maximum defensible N9+ revenue is applicant-specific and cannot be treated as the full grant amount or the full locality request. QC Healthcare may have a stronger service-partner pathway where properly licensed evidence-based treatment, behavioral-health support, case management, recovery support, or care-transition services are needed.
Application Operations
Applications must be submitted through DCJS’s Online Grants Management System (OGMS). An optional preapplication webinar is scheduled for September 25, 2026 at 1:00 p.m. DCJS identifies Kristin Hunter as the grant coordinator. Applicants should use the current CY 2027-2028 guidelines, OGMS requirements, and any later DCJS amendments or clarifications as controlling sources.