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BJA FY25 Second Chance Act Improving Reentry Education and Employment Outcomes

This program supports state, local, and tribal governments and community-based organizations to provide education and employment programs for people leaving jail and prison. The goal of the program is to improve academic and vocational/trade programs available to people in prisons and jails and expand workforce development and career pathways that result in improved job readiness, employment attainment, and retention thereby improving employment prospects and reducing recidivism. Applicants may consider proposing projects that develop marketable skills, leverage technology, and build capacity to align with their local job market and engage in the digital economy.

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BJA FY25 Public Safety and Mental Health Initiative Training and Technical Assistance

This program will support specialized training and technical assistance (TTA) to awardees under the FY2025 Public Safety and Mental Health Initiative (PSMHI). The TTA will help grantees to effectively and efficiently implement comprehensive service networks addressing individuals with untreated mental illness and substance use across community, justice, and behavioral health systems through targeted technical skill implementation and actionable resources in four core areas: Crisis Stabilization, Treatment Services, Housing, and Electronic Health Record (EHR) Systems and Technology Modernization.

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BJA FY25 Second Chance Act Training and Technical Assistance Program

This program supports Second Chance Act grantees, with a particular focus on Smart Reentry program grantees, to assess community reentry strategies and implement or expand interventions to address identified gaps in technical areas to reduce recidivism and improve public safety, including technology adoption and expansion to enhance reentry strategies, and statistical analysis support to inform and achieve identified objectives.

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BJA FY25 State and Local Anti-Terrorism Training (SLATT) Program Training and Technical Assistance

This program supports training, technical assistance, and related services dedicated to state, local, and tribal law enforcement and prosecutors to support specialized multiagency terrorism detection, investigation, and interdiction. The purpose of this NOFO is to select an organization(s) to provide critical training and technical assistance services to law enforcement officers and prosecutors who face the evolving and complex challenges presented by international and domestic terror threats.

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OVC FY25 National Victim Crisis Hotlines

This competitive grant program provides funds to maintain, enhance, or expand the capacity of national hotlines that are essential for providing crisis intervention services, safety planning, information, referrals, and resources for victims of crime in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and U.S. territories. Award recipients will implement enhancements that increase the quality of services and the number of victims served; support hotline staff to minimize the risk of vicarious trauma and burnout; and participate in the National Hotline Consortium.

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FY25 COPS Blue Alert Program

The FY25 COPS Blue Alert Program seeks applications from organizations to support the COPS Office in coordinating the Blue Alert system. The primary objectives of the cooperative agreement to be funded under this funding opportunity are to support states participating in the National Blue Alert Network and to raise awareness, educate, and inform non-Blue Alert states of the Blue Alert Network (e.g., production of an educational video, factsheets, newsletters, presentations, etc.), provide monthly summaries of Blue Alert activations throughout the country, including detailed accounts of heroism involving Blue Alert events, and research, gather, and compile accurate and timely information, from credible sources, about all reported incidents where on duty law enforcement throughout the United States, territories, and tribal lands are shot in the line of duty.

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FY25 Community Policing Development (CPD) Accreditation: Enhancing Law Enforcement Accreditation Entities

Community Policing Development (CPD) funds are used to develop the capacity of law enforcement to implement community policing strategies by providing guidance on promising practices through the development and testing of innovative strategies; building knowledge about effective practices and outcomes; and supporting new, creative approaches to preventing crime and promoting safe communities.

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FY25 Collaborative Reform Initiative: Organizational Assessment and Critical Response

Collaborative Reform Initiative (CRI) program funds are used to highlight best practices of law enforcement agencies and the many ways they are protecting Americans; enhance officer safety and wellness; build agencies’ capacity for self-improvement; and promote community policing practices nationwide. This Notice of Funding Opportunity seeks applicants for the Critical Response and Organizational Assessment programs only.

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NIJ FY25 Research and Evaluation on Violence Against Women

This funding opportunity seeks applications for grant funding to conduct research and evaluation projects examining a broad range of topics to reduce violence against women (VAW), including the crimes of domestic violence (DV) and family violence (FV); intimate partner violence (IPV); rape, sex trafficking, sexual violence (SV); stalking; and teen dating violence (TDV), also known as adolescent relationship abuse (ARA), along with the trauma that results from these crimes and the associated criminal justice system response, procedures, and policies. NIJ also seeks to invest in high-quality evaluations focused… on testing programs, practices, models, or interventions aimed at (1) enhancing engagement with the justice system for women and girls who have been victimized and (2) improving accountability within the criminal justice system from individuals who engage in or perpetrate violence against women and girls. This program furthers the DOJ’s mission by supporting the development of new knowledge and tools to address the challenges of crime and justice in the United States through fundamental research.

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NIJ FY25 Social Science Research and Evaluation on Forensic Science Systems

This funding opportunity seeks proposals for rigorous applied social science research and evaluative studies on the forensic science system. The field of forensic science is changing, particularly as technological advancements improve the criminal justice system’s ability to use forensic evidence more effectively and efficiently. NIJ requests applicants in two categories: Category 1: Social Science Research and Evaluation on the Forensic Science System – Category 2: Evaluability Assessment of Crime Gun Intelligence (CGI) Resources

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NIJ FY25 Research and Evaluation for the Testing and Interpretation of Physical Evidence in Publicly Funded Forensic Laboratories

This funding opportunity seeks proposals for research and evaluation studies to produce practical knowledge that has the potential to improve the examination and interpretation of physical evidence in forensic science laboratories across the community of practice. This program furthers DOJ’s mission by supporting the development of new knowledge and tools to address the challenges of crime and justice in the United States.

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NIJ FY25 Research and Evaluation on Drugs and Crime: Nexus with Firearms and Violence

This funding opportunity seeks applications for rigorous applied research on drugs and crime to inform the development of evidence-based tools, practices, and policies for state, tribal, and local law enforcement and other criminal justice agencies that address drug trafficking, drug markets, and drug-related violence. The FY25 research priority is firearms — the intersection of drug crimes and firearm offenses in trends, interdiction, and prosecution, and efforts to disrupt those criminal activities and related violence.

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BJA FY25 Office of Justice Programs Community Based Violence Intervention and Prevention Initiative Site-Based

With this funding opportunity, the Office of Justice Programs seeks to prevent and reduce violent crime through comprehensive, evidence-informed violence intervention programs focused on those at highest risk. These programs include efforts to address gang and gun violence using community violence intervention strategies based on partnerships among community residents, local government agencies, victim service providers, community-based organizations, law enforcement, hospitals, researchers, and other community stakeholders.

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FY25 Justice Counts State Partnership Grants and Training and Technical Assistance Implementation Assistance Program

This program seeks applications for funding to support Justice Counts adoption and implementation. Justice Counts is part of the Justice Reinvestment Initiative strategy to help states achieve fairer, effective, and efficient justice systems. Justice Counts provides policymakers with actionable data to more easily understand and make better informed changes to their criminal justice system. Funding will support states to adopt and utilize metrics through state agency and/or state-local partnerships. It will also support a training and technical assistance (TTA) provider to help state grantees and more broadly spur jurisdictional adoption and the use of system metrics across the nation.

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COPS Office Invitational Program

This program will provide funding to for-profit (commercial) organizations, nonprofit organizations, institutions of higher education, community groups, and faith-based organizations to develop the capacity of law enforcement to implement community policing strategies by providing guidance on promising practices through the development and testing of innovative strategies; building knowledge about effective practices and outcomes; and supporting new, creative approaches to preventing crime and promoting safe communities.

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Did you know?

Every day, nearly 130 people in the United States are killed with guns, twice as many are shot and wounded, and countless others are impacted by acts of gun violence.

Everytown Research analysis of CDC, WONDER, Provisional Mortality Statistics, Multiple Cause of Death, 2020–2024; Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project nonfatal firearm injury data, 2020; and SurveyUSA, Market Research Study #26602, 2022.

Last updated: 1.15.2026