Illinois opens $1 million grant round for outpatient restoration of defendants found unfit
The Illinois Department of Human Services, Division of Mental Health, posted a notice of funding opportunity for outpatient fitness restoration, the state's term for community-based competency restoration. About $1 million was available for roughly six grants of $20,000 to $81,000, covering an eight-month term through June 30, 2021 with an option to renew for a year. Applications were due October 8, 2020.
The stated goals were to reduce the number of adults determined unfit to stand trial and to give people prompt access to clinically appropriate outpatient restoration. Eligibility was limited to providers in DHS Mental Health Regions 3, 4 and 5, which cover central and southern Illinois, and no cost sharing or match was required.
The notice is a primary document, not news coverage, but it marks an early state-funded move toward community restoration in Illinois at a time when jails were holding growing numbers of unfit defendants.
Source: NOFO - 2344 Outpatient Fitness Restoration (230) — Illinois Department of Human Services, by Illinois Department of Human Services, Division of Mental Health
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