Business / For-Profit

Firearm Injury Prevention in Community Healthcare Settings

This program funds research that reduces firearm injury and disparities through the development and evaluation of firearm injury primary prevention interventions leveraging community healthcare settings.

Lethal Means Safety Suicide Prevention Research in Healthcare and Community Settings

This program provides funding to evaluate the preliminary effectiveness of therapeutic and service delivery interventions that utilize lethal means safety strategies to reduce suicide risk in healthcare and community settings.

Children’s Safety Network Program

The Children’s Safety Network program supports state agencies that seek to reduce child injury hospitalizations and deaths, including from firearms.

Peer-to-Peer Support for Survivors of Crime

This program supports a pass-through funding model in which a trauma-informed, survivor-connected technical assistance provider will provide technical assistance, training, and subgrant funding and financial oversight for at least 10 subgrant sites.

Building Local Continuums of Care To Support Youth Success

This competitive grant program supports communities in conducting planning and assessment activities that will inform the development of a community-based continuum of promising and evidence-based prevention and intervention services that will serve as a strong foundation for preventing youth from entering the juvenile justice system, diverting them from moving deeper into the system (i.e., detention and corrections) and ultimately providing them with the skills they need to lead productive, safe, healthy, and law-abiding lives.

Youth Violence Prevention Program

This competitive grant program provides funding for applicants to develop and/or enhance strategies to prevent youth violence, including youth gang involvement and youth gang/group violence.

Mentoring Programs for Youth in the Juvenile Justice System

This competitive grant program provides funds for mentoring organizations to enhance and expand mentoring services for youth who are involved in the juvenile justice system.

National Mentoring Programs

This competitive grant program supports national mentoring organizations to enhance and expand mentoring services for children and youth who are at risk or high risk for juvenile delinquency, victimization, and juvenile justice system involvement.

Byrne Discretionary Community Project Funding/Byrne Discretionary Grants Program

This program supports Congressionally-earmarked funds to improve the functioning of the juvenile justice system and to combat juvenile delinquency.

Preparing for Active Shooter Situations (PASS) Awards

This program funds a provider of nationwide scenario-based training for officers and first responders to prepare for school active shooter situations.

Research and Evaluation on School Safety

This competitive grant program funds research and evaluation projects on the root causes and consequences of school violence.

Community-Based Violence Intervention and Prevention Initiative (CVIPI) Research and Evaluation

This funding opportunity seeks applications for rigorous research and evaluation projects that advance understanding of OJP Community-Based Violence Intervention and Prevention Initiatives (CVIPI). The CVIPI program provides resources to support evidence-informed violence intervention and prevention programs in communities across the United States.

Research and Evaluation on Firearms Violence and Mass Shootings

This competitive grant program supports research and program evaluation projects that inform efforts to prevent and reduce intentional, interpersonal firearm violence and mass shootings in the United States in two categories: (1) research or evaluation of Extreme Risk Protection Order (ERPO) laws, and (2) research on the sources of the firearm used in the commission of a crime and the relationship of those sources to shootings and gun-related violence.

Firearm Inquiry Statistics (FIST) Program, 2023–2026

This program provides national estimates on the total number of firearm purchase applications received and denied pursuant to the Brady Act and relevant state laws.

National Initiatives: Law Enforcement Training and Technical Assistance

This funding opportunity seeks to fund training and technical assistance (TTA) programs for eight national initiatives to support law enforcement and criminal justice stakeholders in key criminal justice areas. Delivered TTA will be site-based, program-specific TTA and broader TTA for the field. This program furthers DOJ’s mission by supporting and assisting state, local, territorial, and tribal jurisdictions in improving the criminal justice system and enhancing efforts to prevent, investigate, and respond to crime.

Field Initiated: Encouraging Innovation

This competitive grant program provides funding to prevent and reduce crime and enhance the criminal justice system through innovative approaches that accelerate justice by identifying, defining, and responding to emerging or chronic crime problems and systemic issues.

Community Based Violence Intervention and Prevention Initiative

This competitive grant program supports evidence-based community-based violence intervention and prevention programs that address gang and gun violence and that are based on partnerships among community residents, local government agencies, victim service providers, community-based organizations, law enforcement, hospitals, researchers, and other community stakeholders.

STOP School Violence Training and Technical Assistance (STOP TTA) Program

This competitive grant program provides funding for establishing a Center to provide support, training and technical assistance for the STOP School Violence Program.

National Center for Injury Prevention and Control (NCIPC) – research grants for preventing violence and violence related injury

The NCIPC funds research into gun violence prevention strategies. Funded research is detailed at this website.

Center to Improve Social and Emotional Learning and School Safety

The Center to Improve Social and Emotional Learning and School Safety provides technical assistance to support States and school districts in the implementation of social and emotional learning evidence-based programs and practices.

Byrne Discretionary Grants Program

This program provides Congressionally-earmarked funds to improve the functioning of the criminal justice system and to combat juvenile delinquency.