Funding Watch Overview
Upcoming / Funding Watch. Maryland’s Governor’s Office of Crime Prevention and Policy (GOCPP) maintains the Comprehensive Opioid, Stimulant, and Substance Use Program (COSSUP), a site-based funding pathway supporting prevention, overdose response, treatment, recovery support, diversion/deflection and related public-safety strategies. GOCPP’s current program page projects an August NOFA release month and a September application month.
Why Atlas Is Not Calling This Open
As of September 6, 2026, the live GOCPP COSSUP page still links only the SFY 2026 Comprehensive Opioid Use Site-Based Program (COAP) Grant Program NOFA. GOCPP has not yet published a next-cycle NOFA, current application deadline, award pool, per-applicant ceiling or controlling submission instructions on that page. Atlas therefore will not recycle the prior SFY 2026 solicitation or invent a deadline for a future round.
Verified Program Scope
GOCPP states that COSSUP funding supports efforts to increase access to prevention, treatment and recovery services for people with substance use disorder in the community, correctional settings and reentry; reduce overdose deaths; and support public-safety responses to illicit drug activity. Maryland has also used the program for Law Enforcement Assisted Diversion and broader deflection/pre-arrest diversion models that connect people to services.
The current program page identifies contractual services, equipment, operating expenses, personnel, travel and other costs as funded categories.
Who Should Watch
The current GOCPP program page identifies county government agencies, local government agencies and state government agencies as eligible applicant types. Healthcare providers, behavioral-health organizations, recovery organizations and community partners may be relevant implementation partners where a future NOFA permits, but Atlas does not treat them as confirmed direct applicants for the next cycle until the controlling notice is issued.
Atlas Analysis
Atlas Opportunity Score: 88/100. The program has strong behavioral-health, substance-use, overdose-prevention and justice-health relevance, and GOCPP’s current calendar indicates an expected application period in September. The score remains below an active solicitation because the next-cycle NOFA and deadline are not yet published.
N9+ Direct Vendor Fit: 0/100 at Funding Watch stage. QC Healthcare Fit: 0/100 at Funding Watch stage. Equipment and contractual services are listed as program categories, but that does not establish a connected clinical-exam or physician-coverage pathway for an unissued round. Any future Dr. Miltie role must be based on the actual next-cycle NOFA and an eligible government-led project.
Next Action
Maryland governmental applicants and potential implementation partners should pre-position an evidence-based opioid, stimulant or substance-use project, document measurable overdose-prevention or treatment/recovery outcomes, define service partners and implementation capacity, and monitor GOCPP for the next COSSUP/COAP NOFA. Atlas should convert this record to Active only after the new notice, funding amount, eligibility rules, allowable costs and submission deadline are verified.
Official source: Maryland Governor’s Office of Crime Prevention and Policy — Comprehensive Opioid, Stimulant, and Substance Use Program (COSSUP).