Verified September 26, 2026. Kansas organizations have several immediate paths to pursue funding for crisis response, school safety, reentry, and trafficking prevention. The calendar is unforgiving. Two opportunities close on September 29, and another closes on October 5. Applicants should use the official notice as the controlling document, confirm registration in SAM.gov and Grants.gov, and avoid relying on a summary when an amendment may change a deadline or requirement.
1. Kansas behavioral health crisis transportation procurement
Status: Open. Deadline: September 29, 2026, at 2 p.m. Kansas time. Applicant type: Qualified vendors capable of providing a statewide service. Published amount: The public funding page does not state a contract ceiling. Match: No matching requirement is stated on the public page.
The Kansas Department for Aging and Disability Services is seeking a contractor to operate coordinated transportation for people experiencing mental health or substance use crises. The service must cover all 105 counties, operate every hour of every day, maintain a centralized dispatch system, use suitable vehicles, and employ personnel trained in deescalation and trauma informed care. Referrals may come from 988, community mental health centers, hospitals, courts, law enforcement, and other authorized sources.
This is a procurement rather than a conventional grant, but it is a major community safety funding opportunity. Its design addresses a persistent system failure: police officers and emergency departments are often asked to provide transportation that should be delivered by a specialized behavioral health system. A qualified transportation provider should review the full bid package and the Kansas Department of Administration instructions before submitting.
Official KDADS funding page and application materials
2. OVC Preventing Trafficking of Girls
Status: Open. Deadline: September 29, 2026. Maximum award: $500,000. Estimated program funding: $3,511,939 for approximately seven awards. Match: None.
The Office for Victims of Crime will support prevention and early intervention for girls who are at risk of trafficking or who have experienced trafficking. Eligible applicants include state, county, city, township, and special district governments; federally recognized Tribal governments; Tribal organizations; public housing authorities; nonprofit organizations with federal charitable status; and public or private colleges and universities.
Kansas applicants should treat this as a partnership opportunity. A credible proposal should connect youth serving agencies, schools, child welfare, housing providers, survivor leaders, and organizations able to provide confidential services. The strongest plan will not define prevention as a single awareness event. It will identify who is at risk, how youth will be reached, what services will follow a disclosure, and how the applicant will measure safety and stability without exposing survivors.
Official federal opportunity listing
3. BJA Crisis Response Training Program
Status: Open. Deadline: October 5, 2026. Maximum award: $650,000. Match: None.
The Bureau of Justice Assistance will fund the development or expansion of crisis response training for public safety and correctional personnel who encounter people with mental health conditions, substance use disorders, intellectual or developmental disabilities, physical disabilities, or traumatic brain injuries. Eligible Kansas applicants include state and local governments, counties, cities, federally recognized Tribal governments, certain Tribal organizations, and colleges or hospitals with campus police departments.
A Kansas application should move beyond a short classroom course. It should explain how dispatch, 988, emergency medical services, hospitals, behavioral health providers, families, and officers will use the same response pathway. It should also include measures such as repeat crisis contacts, use of force, emergency department boarding, successful referral completion, and the experience of people who received the response.
4. BJA Students, Teachers, and Officers Preventing School Violence Program
Status: Open. Deadline: October 30, 2026. Maximum award: $2 million. Match: None.
The STOP School Violence program supports training, threat assessment and intervention teams, anonymous reporting technology, and specialized preparation for mental health crises. Eligible applicants include Kansas school districts, public and private colleges, state and local governments, federally recognized Tribal governments, nonprofit organizations, private schools applying as nonprofits, and public charter schools applying as school districts.
The program is designed to prevent violence, not merely respond after it occurs. Kansas applicants should show how reports will be assessed, how students will be protected from retaliation, when families will be contacted, how disability rights and due process will be respected, and how a team will distinguish a credible threat from ordinary adolescent behavior. Technology without a response protocol can collect warnings without producing safety.
5. BJA Second Chance Act Community Based Reentry Program
Status: Open. Deadline: October 30, 2026. Maximum award: $1 million. Match: None.
This program supports mentoring and transitional services for adults returning from correctional facilities who are assessed as having a moderate or high risk of recidivism. The current federal listing identifies eligible community organizations and federally recognized Tribal governments. Because the eligibility language is narrower than many reentry programs, applicants should read the complete notice before investing in a proposal and confirm that their legal status qualifies.
A useful Kansas project should begin before release and continue through the unstable months that follow it. Housing, identification, transportation, employment, treatment, family reunification, benefits, and supervision requirements must be coordinated rather than presented as separate referrals. The proposal should also identify how participant consent, confidentiality, and data sharing will be handled.
Programs that are closed but should remain on the calendar
The Kansas Attorney General reports that applications for fiscal year 2027 victim service grants are closed. These state programs include the Crime Victims Assistance Fund, the Child Exchange and Visitation Center Program, the Protection from Abuse Fund, child victim assistance, and related victim service funds. The office states that the fiscal year 2028 cycle will open in mid March 2027. Organizations should use the intervening months to document need, strengthen outcome measures, update governing documents, and build referral agreements.
The Kansas faith based youth substance use prevention opportunity also closed on September 17, 2026. It should not be described as available. Faith communities interested in a future round can still prepare by selecting an evidence informed model, establishing youth protection rules, and identifying measurable outcomes.
Kansas Attorney General grant programs and next cycle notice
A practical application sequence
- Confirm legal eligibility from the complete notice before drafting.
- Check SAM.gov and Grants.gov registration today, not on the deadline.
- Name the population, geography, and service gap with Kansas data.
- Describe the operating pathway from first contact through completed service.
- Budget for evaluation, accessibility, language access, transportation, and participant protection.
- Assign one person to monitor amendments until the application is submitted.
Funding does not create safety by itself. It creates capacity. Kansas organizations should judge each opportunity by whether it can build a dependable service, reach people before a crisis deepens, and produce evidence that the work improved safety rather than merely increasing activity.
Selected sources
- Kansas Department for Aging and Disability Services, Funding Opportunities
- Office for Victims of Crime, Preventing Trafficking of Girls
- Bureau of Justice Assistance, Crisis Response Training Program
- Bureau of Justice Assistance, STOP School Violence Program
- Bureau of Justice Assistance, Second Chance Act Community Based Reentry Program
- Kansas Attorney General, Victim Services Grant Programs
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