---
kind: "section"
citation: "34 U.S.C. § 10751"
title: "34"
title_heading: "Crime Control and Law Enforcement"
number: "10751"
heading: "Grant authorization"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/34/10751"
units:
  - "Subtitle I — Comprehensive Acts"
  - "Chapter 101 — Justice System Improvement"
  - "Subchapter XLI — Crisis Stabilization and Community Reentry Program"
---

# §10751. Grant authorization

- (a) **In general—** The [Attorney General](/usc/34/10307.md?p=1) may make grants under this subchapter to [States](/usc/34/11103.md?p=7), [Indian Tribes](/usc/34/11103.md?p=18), units of local government, and community-based [nonprofit organizations](/usc/34/11103.md?p=23) for the purpose of providing clinical [services](/usc/34/12291.md?p=a-51) for people with serious mental illness and substance use disorders that establish [treatment](/usc/34/11103.md?p=15), suicide prevention, and continuity of recovery in the community upon release from the correctional facility.
- (b) **Use of funds—** A grant awarded under this subchapter shall be used to support—
  - (1) programs involving criminal and juvenile justice agencies, mental health agencies, [community-based organizations](/usc/34/12291.md?p=a-5) that focus on reentry, and community-based behavioral health providers that improve clinical stabilization during pre-trial detention and incarceration and continuity of care leading to recovery in the community by providing [services](/usc/34/12291.md?p=a-51) and supports that may include peer support [services](/usc/34/12291.md?p=a-51), enrollment in healthcare, and introduction to long-acting injectable medications or, as clinically indicated, other medications, by—
    - (A) providing training and education for criminal and juvenile justice agencies, mental health agencies, and community-based behavioral health providers on interventions that support—
      - (i) engagement in recovery supports and [services](/usc/34/12291.md?p=a-51);
      - (ii) access to medication while in an incarcerated setting; and
      - (iii) continuity of care during reentry into the community;
    - (B) ensuring that individuals with serious mental illness are provided appropriate access to [evidence-based](/usc/34/11103.md?p=34) recovery supports that may include peer support [services](/usc/34/12291.md?p=a-51), medication (including long-acting injectable medications where clinically appropriate), and psycho-social therapies;
    - (C) offering technical assistance to criminal justice agencies on how to modify their administrative and clinical processes to accommodate [evidence-based](/usc/34/11103.md?p=34) interventions, such as long-acting injectable medications and other recovery supports; and
    - (D) participating in data collection activities specified by the [Attorney General](/usc/34/10307.md?p=1), in consultation with the Secretary of Health and Human [Services](/usc/34/12291.md?p=a-51);
  - (2) programs that support cooperative efforts between criminal and juvenile justice agencies, mental health agencies, and community-based behavioral health providers to establish or enhance serious mental illness recovery support by—
    - (A) strengthening or establishing crisis response [services](/usc/34/12291.md?p=a-51) delivered by hotlines, mobile crisis teams, crisis stabilization and triage centers, peer support specialists, public safety officers, community-based behavioral health providers, and other stakeholders, including by providing technical support for interventions that promote long-term recovery;
    - (B) engaging criminal and juvenile justice agencies, mental health agencies and community-based behavioral health providers, preliminary qualified offenders, and family and community members in program design, program implementation, and training on crisis response [services](/usc/34/12291.md?p=a-51), including connection to recovery [services](/usc/34/12291.md?p=a-51) and supports;
    - (C) examining health care reimbursement issues that may pose a barrier to ensuring the long-term financial sustainability of crisis response [services](/usc/34/12291.md?p=a-51) and interventions that promote long-term engagement with recovery [services](/usc/34/12291.md?p=a-51) and supports; and
    - (D) participating in data collection activities specified by the [Attorney General](/usc/34/10307.md?p=1), in consultation with the Secretary of Health and Human [Services](/usc/34/12291.md?p=a-51); and
  - (3) programs that provide training and additional resources to criminal and juvenile justice agencies, mental health agencies, and community-based behavioral health providers on serious mental illness, suicide prevention strategies, recovery engagement strategies, and the special health and social needs of justice-involved individuals who are living with serious mental illness.
- (c) **Consultation—** The [Attorney General](/usc/34/10307.md?p=1) shall consult with the Secretary of Health and Human [Services](/usc/34/12291.md?p=a-51) to ensure that serious mental illness [treatment](/usc/34/11103.md?p=15) and recovery support [services](/usc/34/12291.md?p=a-51) provided under this grant program incorporate [evidence-based](/usc/34/11103.md?p=34) approaches that facilitate long-term engagement in recovery [services](/usc/34/12291.md?p=a-51) and supports.
- (d) **Behavioral health provider defined—** In this section, the term “behavioral health provider” means—
  - (1) a community mental health center that meets the criteria under [section 300x–2(c) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=(/us/usc/t34/s300x–2/c)); or
  - (2) a certified community behavioral health clinic described in section 223(d) of the Protecting Access to Medicare Act of 2014 ([42 U.S.C. 1396a](/usc/42/1396a.md) note).

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 90–351, title I, § 3051, as added Pub. L. 116–281, § 2(a), Dec. 31, 2020, 134 Stat. 3381.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### References in Text

Section 223(d) of the Protecting Access to Medicare Act of 2014, referred to in subsec. (d)(2), is section 223(d) of Pub. L. 113–93, which is set out as a note under section 1396a of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare.

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Short Title

For short title of Pub. L. 116–281, which enacted this subchapter, as the “Crisis Stabilization and Community Reentry Act of 2020”, see section 1 of Pub. L. 116–281, set out as a Short Title of 2020 Amendment note under section 10101 of this title.