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BJA FY 2026 The Kevin and Avonte Program: Reducing Injury and Death of Missing Individuals with Dementia and Developmental Disabilities

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Posted
August 17, 2026
Closes
October 6, 2026
Award ceiling
$150,000
Cost sharing
No
Instrument
Grant
Assistance listing
16.015
Category
Law, Justice and Legal Services

Program funding history

Awards made under Assistance Listing 16.015 across FY2024–FY2026, from public federal spending records.

FY2024 obligated
$2.7M
FY2025 obligated
$0
FY2026 (to date) obligated
$0
Awards in window
56

Top recipients: Autism Society of America Inc, City of Tampa, Autism Society of Maryland, Inc., Sokaogan Chippewa Community, County of Palm Beach

Source: USAspending.gov · refreshed August 2026

Synopsis

This is a notice of funding opportunity (NOFO) for the BJA FY 2026 Kevin and Avonte Program: Reducing Injury and Death of Missing Individuals with Dementia and Developmental Disabilities. This opportunity supports public safety efforts to reduce 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. This program provides funding to law enforcement, other public safety agencies, and health care agencies to implement locative technologies that track missing individuals. It also provides funding to such agencies and partnering nonprofit organizations to develop or operate programs to prevent wandering, increase safety for vulnerable individuals, and facilitate rescues.

Who can apply

Other Units of Local Government: For the purposes of this notice of funding opportunity, other units of local government include towns, boroughs, parishes, villages, or other general purpose political subdivisions of a state.; Health care agencies: For the purposes of this notice of funding opportunity, this includes state, local, or tribal government-operated health departments, hospitals, and medical centers as well as non-profit health clinics, behavioral health providers, and Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs) working with individuals with forms of dementia, such as Alzheimer’s disease, or developmental disabilities, such as autism.

How to apply

Applications go through the official government listing. Grants Radar links you straight to the source — applying is free.

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Agency contact: Bureau of Justice Assistance · [email protected] · 202-514-9354

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