This program provides funding to law enforcement and other public safety agencies to implement locative technologies that track missing individuals, and it provides funding to such agencies and partnering nonprofit organizations to develop or operate programs to prevent wandering, increase vulnerable individuals’ safety, and facilitate rescues.
Kevin and Avonte’s Law, enacted in 2018, authorized BJA to support local efforts to address this public safety challenge by providing grants to health care agencies, law enforcement and other public safety agencies, and nonprofit organizations that (1) implement locative technologies to track missing individuals, and/or (2) develop or operate programs to prevent wandering, increase individuals’ safety, and facilitate rescue.
Applicants should propose solutions that are the least restrictive and intrusive and directly benefit and support individuals, and families of individuals, with forms of dementia, such as Alzheimer's disease, or developmental disabilities, such as autism, who are likely to wander.
Category 1 supports health care agencies, law enforcement and other public safety agencies, and nonprofit organizations to develop comprehensive approaches designed to prevent and respond effectively to the wandering of individuals with forms of dementia, such as Alzheimer’s disease, or children with developmental disabilities, such as autism.
Category 2 supports health care agencies, law enforcement, and other public safety agencies to purchase tracking technology designed to locate and recover individuals with forms of dementia, such as Alzheimer’s disease, or children with developmental disabilities, such as autism, in the event they wander from safe environments.
For Goals, Objectives, and Deliverables, see https://bja.ojp.gov/funding/O-BJA-2023-171512.pdf#page=7.
For Priority Areas, see https://bja.ojp.gov/funding/O-BJA-2023-171512.pdf#page=9.
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