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Goal: To provide veterans treatment courts and criminal justice professionals with the resources needed to implement, enhance, and sustain evidence-based treatment and recovery support programs and systems for eligible veterans in the criminal justice system who have substance use disorders. Objective: The Veterans Treatment Court (VTC) Discretionary Grant Program provides financial and technical assistance to states, state courts, local courts, units of local government, and federally recognized Indian tribal governments to implement or enhance the operations of veterans treatment courts. These courts effectively integrate evidence- based substance use disorder treatment, mandatory drug testing, incentives and sanctions, and transitional services in judicially supervised court settings that have jurisdiction over veterans in the criminal justice system who have substance use disorders, including those with a history of violence and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and/or traumatic brain injury (TBI) as a result of their military service. Performance Measure 1: Number of participants who graduated from the VTC program; Performance Measure 2: Percent of participants who graduate from the VTC program; and, Performance Measure 3: Percentage of treatment court graduates who committed a new criminal offense within 24 months of completing the program.
This chart shows obligations for the program by fiscal year. All data for this chart was provided by the
administering agency and sourced from SAM.gov, USASpending.gov, and Treasury.gov.
For more information on each of these data sources, please see the
About the data page.
The Veterans Treatment Court Grant Program offers funding through a competitive grant process to local, state, and tribal governments interested in establishing and enhancing a VTC. From 2015 to 2021, BJA made 110 individual VTC awards and 31 joint (combined ADC and VTC) awards. BJA actively funds 88 individual VTC awards and 31 joint awards.
Please visit https://bja.ojp.gov/program/veterans-treatment-court-program/promising-practices.
Since 2021, the Veterans Treatment Court program has funded over 75 awardees to implement, enhance, or provide statewide services to Veterans Treatment Court programs. The program has provided funding to coordinate activities and support services that support the needs of veterans in veterans treatment programs. In addition, the funding supports training and technical assistance to grantees, and assistance in building capacity and data collection.
Single Audit Applies (2 CFR Part 200 Subpart F):
For additional information on single audit requirements for this program, review the current Compliance Supplement.
OMB is working with the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) and agency offices of inspectors general to include links to relevant oversight reports. This section will be updated once this information is made available.
