Higher Education Institution

OVW Fiscal Year 2025 Addressing Domestic Violence, Dating Violence, Sexual Assault, and Stalking at HSIs, HBCUs, and TCUs Initiative

The Addressing Domestic Violence, Dating Violence, Sexual Assault, and Stalking at HSIs, HBCUs, and TCUs Initiative (Campus Set Aside Initiative) uses set aside funding (34 U.S.C. § 20125) from the OVW Campus Program to support Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSIs), Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), and Tribal Colleges and Universities (TCUs) in strengthening their institutional response to domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking. The Campus Set Aside Initiative will support activities focused on building the capacity of HSIs, HBCUs, and TCUs to develop and implement strategies to prevent and address domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking that meets the needs of its students, including effective response protocols and prevention programming.

OVC FY25 Services for Victims of Crime

This program supports the development, expansion and strengthening of victim service programs for all victims of crime throughout the United States and its territories. Award recipients will increase the quality and quantity of victim services in the following categories: · Category 1: Services to Child and Youth Victims (Anticipated Award Ceiling: $500,000) Awards under this category will be made to entities to serve child and youth victims of crime. Child and youth victims are persons who were age 17 or younger when the victimization took place. · Category 2: Services to Elder Victims of Abuse, Fraud, and Exploitation (Anticipated Award Ceiling: $500,000) Awards under this category will be made to entities to serve victims of elder fraud, abuse, and exploitation. For purposes of this funding opportunity, victims of elder fraud, abuse, and exploitation are persons who were age 55 or older when the victimization took place. · Category 3: Services to Other Crime Victims (Anticipated Award Ceiling: $500,000) Awards under this category will be made to entities to serve other victims of crimes (not child or elder victimization), excluding human trafficking. Victim services may include, but are not limited to, emergency assistance, case management, shelter and housing, medical and dental care, victim advocacy, transportation, childcare, legal services, and employment assistance.

OVC FY25 Technology to Support Services for Victims of Crime

This program has two funding categories (applicants can apply to only one category): Category 1: Advancing the Use of Technology to Assist Victims of Crime. Awards under this category will be made to support innovative strategies to create, expand, or enhance the use of technology by victim service organizations to improve interaction with crime victims, elevate service quality, and ensure accessibility and responsiveness. Category 2: Building State Technology Capacity to Serve Victims of Crime. Awards under this category will be made to State Administering Agencies to support statewide technology programs to enhance victims’ access to services; foster innovation and efficiency in the provision of services; and improve the quality of services.

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.

FY25 Community Policing Development: Law Enforcement Products and Resources

The FY 2025 CPD Law Enforcement Products and Resources program will fund projects that will develop products and resources for national distribution and offer creative ideas to uplift the image of the law enforcement profession, advance crime fighting, or support community policing efforts through community engagement, problem solving or organizational change.

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.

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.

NIJ FY25 Research and Evaluation on Violence Against Women

This funding opportunity seeks to support the development of objective and independent knowledge and validated tools to reduce violence against women, promote justice for victims of crime, and enhance criminal justice responses.

OJJDP FY25 Multistate Mentoring Programs Initiative

This funding opportunity seeks to support mentoring organizations to enhance and expand mentoring services for children and youth who are at risk or high risk for delinquency, victimization, and juvenile justice system involvement.

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

NIJ FY25 Graduate Research Fellowship

This funding opportunity seeks to support doctoral students whose dissertation research is relevant to preventing and controlling crime, advancing knowledge of victimization and effective victim services, or ensuring the fair and impartial administration of criminal or juvenile justice in the United States. This furthers the DOJ mission by increasing the pool of researchers who are engaged in providing science-based solutions to problems relevant to criminal and juvenile justice policy and practice in the United States.

BJA FY25 Byrne State Crisis Intervention Training and Technical Assistance Program

This funding opportunity seeks to support training and technical assistance (TTA) providers to support grantees funded through the FY22–23 and FY24 Byrne State Crisis Intervention Program (SCIP) Formula opportunities as well as future Byrne SCIP Formula opportunities.

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.

NIJ FY25 Research and Evaluation of Artificial Intelligence for Criminal Justice Purposes

This funding opportunity seeks to support research and evaluation that advances the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in the criminal justice system. The goal is to improve the fairness, accuracy, and effectiveness of criminal justice processes through AI applications in crime prevention, public safety, and justice system decision-making.

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.

OJJDP FY25 National Mentoring Resource Center

This funding opportunity seeks to build on OJJDP’s history and leadership in mentoring by providing the mentoring field and practitioners with comprehensive resources and training materials on the OJJDP National Mentoring Resource Center website; convening an expert Research Board that reviews the evidence base for specific program models, populations, and outcomes; and providing training and technical assistance for OJJDP grantees to support youth mentoring programs in implementing safe, quality, and effective practices.

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.

OVW Fiscal Year 2025 Training and Technical Assistance Initiative

The purpose of the OVW Training and Technical Assistance Initiative (TA Initiative) is to provide direct training and technical assistance (TTA) to current and potential OVW recipients and subrecipients to enhance their efforts to successfully implement projects supported by OVW grant funds. OVW’s TA Initiative is designed to strengthen and build the capacity of civil and criminal justice system professionals and victim service providers across the nation to respond effectively to domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking (i.e., the four VAWA crimes) and foster partnerships and collaboration among organizations to address these crimes.

BJA FY25 National Initiatives: Justice and Mental Health Training and Technical Assistance Program

This funding opportunity seeks to fund training and technical assistance (TTA) programs for three national initiatives supporting justice and mental health programs. Categories include collaborative crisis response and intervention training program TTA; Law enforcement behavioral health response program TTA; and Justice and mental health collaboration program TTA.

NIJ FY25 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes

This funding opportunity seeks applications for funding basic or applied research and development in forensic science for criminal justice purposes. Among eligible focus areas are proposals involving firearms and toolmark identification.

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.

NIJ FY25 Research and Evaluation of Policing Practices

This funding opportunity seeks rigorous, applied evaluative research on: (1) police conduct and police-community interactions; (2) officer safety, health, and wellness; (3) criminal investigations; and (4) alternative traffic enforcement models.

Community Based Violence Intervention and Prevention Initiative (FY22 Intermediaries)

This funding opportunity seeks applications from intermediary entities funded under the Office of Justice Programs Community Based Violence Intervention and Prevention Initiative opportunity to fund a second cohort of grassroots community violence intervention organizations and develop resources translating the success of this work.

Community Based Violence Intervention and Prevention Initiative (FY24 TTA)

This funding opportunity seeks applications from FY24 Community Based Violence Intervention and Prevention Initiative training and technical assistance (TTA) providers to enhance expertise in TTA network support and coordination, law enforcement engagement with community violence intervention programs, and strategic communications.