FY26 Law Enforcement Mental Health and Wellness Act Program
The summary for the FY26 Law Enforcement Mental Health and Wellness Act Program grant is detailed below.
This summary states who is eligible for the grant, how much grant money will be awarded, current and past deadlines, Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA) numbers, and a sampling of similar government grants.
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FY26 Law Enforcement Mental Health and Wellness Act Program: The Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) is the component of the U.S. Department of Justice responsible for advancing the practice of community policing and the Administration’s priority of Making America Safe Again by supporting the nation’s state, local, territorial and Tribal law enforcement agencies through information and grant resources. This is a notice of funding opportunity (NOFO) for the FY26 Law Enforcement Mental Health and Wellness Act (LEMHWA) Program. The mental health and wellness of law enforcement officers and their families is a priority of the Administration. Through the LEMHWA program, the Department of Justice supports this priority by providing funding directly to state, local, tribal, and territorial (SLTT) law enforcement agencies to implement new or enhance existing programs that offer training and services to support officers emotional and mental health including, counseling programs, peer mentoring, suicide prevention, stress reduction, and police officer family services. As community policing is common sense policing, throughout the FY26 LEMHWA program NOFO materials, the terms “community policing” and “common sense policing” are used interchangeably, unless otherwise specified. The COPS Office seeks to increase the delivery of and access to mental health and wellness services through this NOFO in the following three funding categories: Category 1: FY26 Start-up LEMHWA Implementation Projects • The purpose of this program is to provide funding to law enforcement agencies that do not have established law-enforcement specific mental health and wellness programming. These funds will serve as start-up funding to support the development of new mental health and wellness services and programming for employees of law enforcement agencies and their families. This program also serves to increase grant funding accessibility for small and understaffed departments, especially those in rural communities, to implement mental health and wellness programs. • Implementation of peer support, training, family resources, suicide prevention, stress reduction, clinical support, and other promising practices for wellness programs are highly encouraged. • Agencies that currently offer rudimentary or limited wellness services and are seeking to develop a comprehensive wellness program for their department are encouraged to apply. Category 2: FY26 Enhanced LEMHWA Implementation Projects • The purpose of this program is to provide funding to law enforcement agencies who have current wellness programs in place and are seeking to enhance or expand upon those existing wellness programs. Category 3: FY26 LEMHWA Community of Practice Initiative The purpose of this initiative is to provide support to current and future LEMHWA grantees, that include peer support and technical assistance through the development and facilitation of an innovative forum where grantees can learn from their peers and share promising practices.
| Federal Grant Title: | FY26 Law Enforcement Mental Health and Wellness Act Program |
| Federal Agency Name: | Community Oriented Policing Services (USDOJ-OJP-COPS) |
| Grant Categories: | Law, Justice and Legal Services |
| Type of Opportunity: | Discretionary |
| Funding Opportunity Number: | O-COPS-2026-172553 |
| Type of Funding: | Cooperative Agreement |
| CFDA Numbers: | 16.070 |
| CFDA Descriptions: | Information not provided |
| Current Application Deadline: | July 30th, 2026 |
| Original Application Deadline: | July 30th, 2026 |
| Posted Date: | June 9th, 2026 |
| Creation Date: | June 9th, 2026 |
| Archive Date: | October 1st, 2026 |
| Total Program Funding: | $9,000,000 |
| Maximum Federal Grant Award: | $250,000 |
| Minimum Federal Grant Award: | $0 |
| Expected Number of Awards: | 37 |
| Cost Sharing or Matching: | No |
| Last Updated: | June 9th, 2026 |
- Applicants Eligible for this Grant
- State governments - County governments - City or township governments - Special district governments - Public and State controlled institutions of higher education - Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized) - Native American tribal organizations (other than Federally recognized tribal governments) - Nonprofits having a 501 (c) (3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education - Nonprofits that do not have a 501 (c) (3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education - Private institutions of higher education - For-profit organizations other than small businesses - Small businesses - Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification.)
- Additional Information on Eligibility
- CATEGORY 1 APPLICANTS: Eligibility is limited to is limited to state, local, tribal, and territorial law enforcement agencies. Agencies must have primary law enforcement jurisdiction within their area of responsibility. Agencies that respond only to certain types of crimes, such as statewide investigative agencies, or only to crimes occurring within correctional institutions, are ineligible. Prior existence of a chaplaincy program or an EAP program does not disqualify applicants from seeking programming under this category. Applicants that have received LEMHWA funding in the past are ineligible for awards under this category. CATEGORY 2 APPLICANTS: Eligibility is limited to is limited to state, local, tribal, and territorial law enforcement agencies. Agencies must have primary law enforcement jurisdiction within their area of responsibility. Agencies that respond only to certain types of crimes, such as statewide investigative agencies, or only to crimes occurring within correctional institutions, are ineligible. Existing LEMHWA awardees are eligible to apply but requests for new funding should not be for the continuation of current or past projects. Proposed work should enhance or expand existing mental health and wellness efforts. CATEGORY 3 APPLICANTS: • Eligibility is limited to for-profit (commercial) organizations, nonprofit organizations, institutions of higher education, community groups, and faith-based organizations.
- Link to Full Grant Announcement
- COPS Grants
- Grant Announcement Contact
- For technical assistance with submitting the SF-424, please call the Grants.gov customer service hotline at 800-518-4726, send questions via email to [email protected],or consult the Grants.gov Organization Applicant User Guide. The Grants.gov Support Hotline operates 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, except on federal holidays. For technical support with the Justice Grants System (JustGrants) application, please contact JustGrants Support at [email protected] or 833-872-5175. JustGrants Support operates Monday through Friday between the hours of 5:00 a.m. and 9:00 p.m. Eastern Time (ET) and Saturday, Sunday, and federal holidays from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. ET. Training on JustGrants can also be found at https://justicegrants.usdoj.gov/training-resources. For programmatic assistance with the requirements of this program, please call the COPS Office Response Center at 800-421-6770 or send questions via email to [email protected]. The COPS Office Response Center operates Monday through Friday, 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. ET, except on federal holidays. In addition, the COPS Office welcomes applicant feedback on this notice of funding opportunity, the application submission process, and the application review process. Provide feedback via email to [email protected] (Subject line: “FY26 PROGRAM NAME Feedback”).
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