Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law
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Grants
19
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Total Awarded
$19,885,000
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Years
1981 - 2022
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Categories
Grants
2022 (3 years)
$450,000
For over 40 years, the Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law (Bazelon) has been one of the foremost legal and policy organizations engaged in protecting and advocating for the rights of people with mental illness and other mental disabilities. Reducing jail incarceration of people with serious mental illness is a priority for the Safety and Justice Challenge and for many of the jurisdictions participating in the Challenge Network. This award enables Bazelon to provide Network sites with intensive technical assistance on creating and financing alternatives to inappropriate and unnecessary jail incarceration of people with serious mental illness, and to support the allied work of other initiative partners, including disability and mental health advocates and other technical assistance providers.
2020 (2 years)
$400,000
For over 40 years, the Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law (Bazelon) has been one of the foremost legal and policy organizations engaged in protecting and advocating for the rights of people with mental illness and other mental disabilities. Reducing jail incarceration of people with serious mental illness is a priority for the Safety and Justice Challenge and for many of the jurisdictions participating in the Challenge Network. This award enables Bazelon to provide Network sites with intensive technical assistance on creating and financing alternatives to inappropriate and unnecessary jail incarceration of people with serious mental illness, and to support the allied work of other initiative partners, including disability and mental health advocates and other technical assistance providers.
2016 (3 years)
$660,000
For over 40 years, the Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law (Bazelon) has been one of the foremost legal and policy advocates to protect and advocate for the rights of people with mental illness and other mental disabilities. Reducing the over-incarceration of people with serious mental illness is a priority for the systems change initiatives of nine of the eleven core sites receiving implementation funding as part of the Safety and Challenge Network. This award supports Bazelon to deliver intensive technical assistance directly to the nine jurisdictions as well as support the efforts of other core and partner Network sites to reduce inappropriate and unnecessary jail incarceration of people with serious mental illness.
2004 (3 years)
$1,725,000
In support of general operations (over three years).
2001 (1 year)
$4,000,000
To support the endowment fund.
2001 (3 years)
$1,950,000
In support of general operations (over three years).
1998 (3 years)
$1,950,000
In support of general operations (over three years).
1995 (1 year)
$1,500,000
In support of general operations (over three years).
1994 (1 year)
$400,000
To develop and communicate information concerning mental health to key players in the debate over healthcare reform.
1994 (1 year)
$350,000
To develop and communicate information concerning mental health to key players in the debate over healthcare reform.
1994 (1 year)
$150,000
To develop and communicate information concerning mental health to key players in the debate over healthcare reform.
1992 (1 year)
$500,000
To support the transition of the Mental Health Law Project to the Judge David L. Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law.
1992 (1 year)
$1,000,000
In support of general operations of the Mental Health Law Project (over three years).
1987 (1 year 2 months)
$2,000,000
To support litigation and advocacy activities (over five years).
1984 (1 year)
$1,000,000
In support of general operations (over three years).
1983 (1 year)
$150,000
To support work in mental health law.
1981 (1 year)
$200,000
To develop and implement legal advocacy and to utilize test-case litigation to improve conditions for the mentally disabled.
