ICJIA Budget Actions Taken August 29, 2024

On August 29, 2024, the ICJIA Budget Committee approved two future funding opportunities totaling $8.4 million and awarded $48.3 million in grants to agencies and organizations across Illinois.

Notices of Funding Opportunity

The Budget Committee set aside:

• $2 million in SFY23 State Crisis Intervention Program (SCIP) funds to support a funding opportunity for firearm restraining order (FRO) implementation support.
• $3.6 million in FFY23 SCIP funds for a funding opportunity to support state and local law enforcement agencies in need of additional capacity to enforce FROs and store seized firearms.
• $2.8 million in FFY21 Justice Assistance Grants (JAG) funds to support programs that reduce violent crime and firearm violence in Illinois communities and support and protect victims and witnesses of crime.

Grant designations:

The Budget Committee designated:

• $699,998 in SFY25 Bullying Prevention funds to nine entities to support the implementation of the community-based violence prevention programming.
• $591,250 in SFY25 Violence Prevention and Reduction funds to two organizations.
• $291,536 in SFY25 Community Partnership for Deflection and Substance Use Disorder funds to two municipal entities to develop and implement collaborative deflection programs in Illinois.
• $1,800,000 in SCIP funds to two law enforcement agencies to support local FRO implementation
• $900,000 in FFY23 Community Based Violence Intervention and Prevention Initiative funds to four community organizations.
• $168,527 in FFY21 JAG accrued interest to four municipal entities to address transportation barriers of justice-involved individuals.
• $35 million in SFY25 Restore, Reinvest, and Renew funds to 88 community organizations across Illinois.
• $740,000 in FFY22 Residential Substance Abuse Treatment Act funding to support services to individuals who are incarcerated in four counties.
• $825,000 in FFY21, FFY22, and FFY23 Violence Against Women Act funds to nine organizations to support culturally specific victim service provision.
• $4.3 million in FFY21, FY22, and FFY23 Victims of Crime Act (VOCA) funds to eight victim service organizations to provide transitional housing services.
• $3 million in FFY23 VOCA funds to support hospital-based trauma recovery center services.