Kevin and Avonte Grant Program Announcement:
- Training Opportunities-Coming 2024
- Service Opportunities-Coming 2024
Background:
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 (Programming) 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 (Technology)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.
The goal of the program is to support local jurisdictions’ efforts to reduce the number of deaths and injuries of individuals with forms of dementia, such as Alzheimer’s disease, or developmental disabilities, such as autism, who, due to their condition, wander from safe environments, through the implementation of proactive programs and the acquisition of locative technology.