Bureau of Justice Assistance · Department of Justice

BJA FY 2026 Veterans Treatment Court Program

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Deadline: Due Oct 29, 2026 · 22 days left
Award size: Up to $2.5M
Match ?: Not required · Work out your budget and match
Who can apply: Special district (utility, fire, etc.), Tribal organization, State government, County government, Tribal government, City or town government, and others named in the official notice
Where: Anywhere in the U.S., including Tennessee

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How this fits you

Available in Rhea County (nationwide program)
No match required
Past Tennessee awards on file: 3

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Official notice: https://simpler.grants.gov/opportunity/1fcdb9a1-a031-4d17-9ed3-9805998f9d77 · Printed from grantme.click/grants/fd4fe1ae-0af4-4db7-8443-3297d332e1ee

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About this grant

This is a notice of funding opportunity (NOFO) for the BJA FY2026 Veterans Treatment Court Program. This opportunity supports the implementation and enhancement of veterans’ treatment court (VTC) operations to reduce the use of opioids, stimulants, and other substances, including alcohol, by high-risk/high-need veterans in the criminal justice system. VTCs effectively integrate substance use disorder (SUD) and mental health disorder (MHD) treatment, mandatory drug testing, incentives and sanctions, and transitional services in judicially supervised court settings that have jurisdiction over veterans in the criminal justice system who have SUD and/or co-occurring mental health disorders (MHSUD), including those with a history of violence and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and/or traumatic brain injury (TBI).

Who can apply, from the official notice

For the purposes of this NOFO, "other units of local government" include towns, boroughs, parishes, villages, or other general purpose political subdivisions of a state; "State agencies" include state administering agencies (SAA), administrative offices of the courts, state criminal justice agencies, state substance abuse agencies, and other state agencies involved with substance use, mental health, or related services.

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Your schedule, working back from the deadline

Oct7
Check that your SAM.gov registration is active (or start it now)
Grants.gov: allow up to 10 business days for SAM registration, weeks or months if information isn't verified. It must be renewed every year. Grants.gov
Oct8
Ask partners for letters of support or commitment
Suggested: partners need about three weeks to write and sign letters.
Oct22
Finish a complete draft for a final review
Suggested: leave about a week for someone else to read the draft.
Oct27
Submit
Grants.gov: submit at least 24–48 hours before the deadline: uploads fail, systems slow down, errors need fixing. Grants.gov blog
Oct29
Deadline
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Writing the need statement? Rhea County facts with citations.

See how others wrote it

The agency posted this example. Read them for structure and level of detail. Don't copy their words: funders treat copied text as plagiarism, and requirements change from year to year, so follow the current notice.

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A sample budget summary and budget narrative. Not a full application · Link checked Oct 7, 2026

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Who in Tennessee has won this program

3 awards to Tennessee groups in 1 county since 2024 · 0 in Rhea County. Largest shown:

Past Tennessee winners
Past winner	Where	Amount	Fiscal year
Downtown Memphis Ministry, Inc.	Memphis, Shelby County	$1M	2025
Downtown Memphis Ministry, Inc.	Memphis, Shelby County	$108K spent that year	2025
Shelby County Government	Memphis, Shelby County	$70K spent that year	2025

Source: USAspending.gov, Federal Audit Clearinghouse. Past awards show who this program funds. They don't guarantee future awards.

About the federal program

Veterans Treatment Court Discretionary Grant Program
Program number 16.043 (the federal Assistance Listing number) · U.S. Department of Justice, OJP Bureau of Justice Assistance · Grant, cooperative agreement (a grant with close agency involvement)

How applications are judged

In each year's official notice: read this year's.

Match

None required (federal program listing).

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