Residential Substance Abuse Treatment (RSAT) (INVITE ONLY)
Description
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The Residential Substance Abuse Treatment (RSAT) for State Prisoners Program assists states, local, and tribal governments in the development and implementation of substance abuse treatment programs in state, local, and tribal correctional and detention facilities. Funds are also available to create and maintain community reintegration services for offenders after they are released from incarceration.
The goal of the RSAT Program is to break the cycle of drugs and violence by reducing the demand for, use, and trafficking of illegal drugs. RSAT enhances the capability of states and units of local and tribal government to provide residential substance abuse treatment for incarcerated inmates; prepares offenders for their reintegration into the communities from which they came by incorporating reentry planning activities into treatment programs; and assists offenders and their communities through the reentry process through the delivery of community-based treatment and other broad-based aftercare services. Treatment practices/services should be, to the extent possible, evidence-based.
RSAT funds may be used to implement three types of programs: residential, jail-based, and aftercare. Applications involving partnerships with community-based substance abuse treatment programs will be given priority consideration.
History
The RSAT Program was created by the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994 (Public Law 103-322). It is the largest crime bill in the history of the United States and consisted of 356 pages that provided for 100,000 new police officers, $9.7 billion in funding for prisons and $6.1 billion in funding for prevention programs, which were designed with significant input from experienced police officers.
Following the 101 California Street shooting, the 1993 Waco Siege, and other high-profile instances of violent crime, the Act expanded federal law in several ways. One of the most noted sections was the Federal Assault Weapons Ban. Other parts of the Act provided for a greatly expanded federal death penalty, new classes of individuals banned from possessing firearms, and a variety of new crimes defined in statutes relating to immigration law, hate crimes, sex crimes, and gang-related crime. The bill also required states to establish registries for sexual offenders by September 1997.
Subtitle U of the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994 amended the Omnibus Act to authorize the Attorney General to make grants to States, for use by States and local government, for developing and implementing residential substance abuse treatment programs within State and local correctional facilities. Further, it directed the Attorney General to consult with the Secretary of HHS to ensure that projects of substance abuse treatment and related services for State prisoners incorporate applicable components of existing comprehensive approaches, including relapse prevention and aftercare services.
The Governor’s Office of Crime Prevention and Policy has administered the Residential Substance Abuse Treatment program since 1998.
Resources
Categories Funded
- Contractual Services
- Equipment
- Operating Expenses
- Personnel
- Travel
- Other
Eligible Applicants
- Local Detention Centers
- Maryland Department of Juvenile Services (DJS)
- Maryland Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services (DPSCS)
Documents
Notices of Funding Availability (NOFA)
Dates
Projected NOFA Release Month
July
Projected Application Month
August