Higher Education Institution
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 program will support OJJDP mentoring grantees and the mentoring field more broadly by maintaining the OJJDP National Mentoring Resource Center website and providing training and technical assistance (TTA) to OJJDP grantees.
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.
OVW Fiscal Year 2025 Research and Evaluation Initiative
This funding opportunity will fund two separate initiatives: a Research and Evaluation Initiative, which will study approaches to preventing and addressing domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking, and a Research and Evaluation Capacity-building Project, which will enhance the gender-based violence field’s ability to identify effective practices, recognize service gaps, and develop and use evidence to improve prevention efforts and responses to gender-based violence.
Research and Evaluation on Youth Justice Topics
This funding opportunity seeks proposals for research and evaluation projects to inform policy and practice in the field of youth justice in the following four topics: (1) research and evaluation on youth justice system prosecution; (2) research and evaluation on youth justice defense delivery systems; (3) evaluation of youth reentry practices; (4) resubmissions of youth justice reinvestment studies.
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.
Initiatives that Support Law Enforcement
With this non-competitive solicitation, the Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) seeks to request applications from 6 cooperative agreement recipients that have been previously funded to support training and technical assistance and/or projects that support law enforcement innovation and crime reduction.
Evaluation of BJA Byrne State Crisis Intervention Program (SCIP): Scan of Practices and Evaluability Assessments
This opportunity will support research and evaluation to assess the effectiveness of programs funded under FYs 2022-2026 BJA’s Byrne SCIP NOFOs. BJA’s Byrne SCIP provides funding for the creation or enhancement of state crisis intervention court proceedings and related programs or initiatives, including extreme risk protection order (ERPO) programs, as well as mental health courts, drug courts, and veterans treatment courts. Such programs or initiatives can include, but are not limited to: 1) Law enforcement crisis interventions; 2) Court-based programming; 3) Referrals to treatment for people in crisis; and 4) ERPO programs. Applicants may apply to assess multiple program areas where applicable. NIJ anticipates making at least one award per topic area for a total of 4 awards. Applicants should clearly state the program area(s) on the title page. This NOFO invites applications proposing a two-phased evaluation strategy to assess Byrne SCIP. The approach includes: • Phase I: Evaluability Assessments. • Phase II: An Evaluation of the Byrne SCIP’s Effectiveness. Applications to this NOFO should include both phases. Applications that do not meet this requirement would not be considered responsive to this funding opportunity.
Community Based Violence Intervention and Prevention Initiative Training and Technical Assistance Program
This competitive grant program provides a range of training and technical assistance (TTA) to grantees and the field at large under the Community Based Violence Intervention and Prevention Initiative. This will build on the portfolio of existing providers and add new expertise in the following areas: trauma-informed practices and workforce development for Community Violence Intervention (CVI) organizations and staff, mass casualty shooting reviews, law enforcement engagement with CVI programs, TTA network support and coordination, and strategic communications.
Training and Technical Assistance for Justice-Focused Community-Based Organizations
This competitive grant program provides for the development, operation, and management of a training and technical assistance program for justice-focused community-based organizations directly serving communities disproportionately impacted by crime, violence, and victimization.
Safer Outcomes: Enhancing De-Escalation and Crisis Response Training for Law Enforcement – Expansion of Regional De-Escalation Training Centers
This competitive grant program supports training centers seeking to provide de-escalation and crisis response training for law enforcement in a multistate region.
National Youth Violence Prevention Training and Technical Assistance (TTA) Program
This program funds efforts to provide practitioners with comprehensive resources and training materials through the OJJDP National Youth Violence Prevention Training and Technical Assistance (TTA) Program. A web-based resource hub will provide guidance to anyone seeking to implement effective and quality evidence-based programming.
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.
National Child Traumatic Stress Initiative (NCTSI)
The NCTSI program funds treatment and services for children, adolescents, and families who have experienced traumatic events and also provides learning materials and resources on their website.
National Center on Safe and Supportive Learning Environments (NCSSLE)
This technical assistance resource provides training and technical assistance to schools, school districts, and educational agencies to support efforts aimed at creating and nurturing safe and supportive learning environments.
Readiness and Emergency Management for Schools (REMS) Technical Assistance Center
This technical assistance resource is the nation’s higher ed and K-12 school safety, security, and emergency management and preparedness hub for information and services (e.g., guidance, training, tools, resources). the walk-through and safety inspection of campus and buildings.