Higher Education Institution
National Center on School Infrastructure
This program established a national center on school infrastructure to serve as a clearinghouse of resources for States and local educational agencies related to improving and developing safe, healthy, sustainable, and equitable public school infrastructure through public school infrastructure improvements, and provide technical assistance to Supporting America’s School Infrastructure grantees and high-need LEAs seeking to leverage available resources to improve public school facilities for all students.
Project SERV
This competitive grant program funds short-term education-related services for local educational agencies and institutions of higher education to help them recover from a violent or traumatic event in which the learning environment has been disrupted.
The Grants to Reduce Sexual Assault, Domestic Violence, Dating Violence, and Stalking on Campus Program
The Grants to Reduce Domestic Violence, Dating Violence, Sexual Assault, and Stalking on Campus Program (Campus Program) provides funding for institutions of higher education to develop and strengthen effective security and investigation strategies to combat domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking on campus, develop and strengthen victim services in cases involving such crimes on campus, and develop and strengthen prevention education and awareness programs.
Firearms Training and Technical Assistance Initiative
This competitive grant program provides direct training and technical assistance to OVW grant recipients to assist with the implementation of domestic violence firearms policies and laws in order to help reduce domestic violence abuse involving 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.
National Mass Violence Victimization Resource Center
This program supports a Center for resources to assist communities in being better prepared and equipped to provide victims of mass violence with timely, comprehensive trauma-informed services.
Youth Justice and Mental Health Collaboration Program
This competitive grant program provides funds to increase public safety by facilitating cross-system collaboration among youth justice, mental health, and substance use treatment agencies to improve response and outcomes for justice-involved youth with mental health disorders and co-occurring mental health and substance use disorders.
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.
Enhancing School Capacity To Address Youth Violence
This competitive grant program supports targeted efforts to address youth violence through implementing evidence-based prevention and intervention efforts in a school-based setting (K–12th grade only).
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 is a notice of funding opportunity (NOFO) for the FY26 Preparing for Active Shooter Situations (PASS) Program. The preparedness of law enforcement to respond to active shooter incidents is a priority of the Administration. Through the PASS program, the Department of Justice supports this priority by providing funding to deliver nationally recognized, scenario-based training that prepares officers, first responders, and mental health and social service providers on how best to prepare their communities for an active shooter threat or act of terrorism. PASS program funds are used to increase public and law enforcement safety nationwide by training first responders—including law enforcement, fire, emergency medical services (EMS), dispatchers, medical personnel, facility security, emergency management, and any other professionals who may reasonably be key to a successful integrated response—to handle an active shooter threat or act of terrorism. In addition, this program will provide priority access to training for School Resource Officers funded under the COPS Hiring Program, to support active shooter preparedness and response in primary and secondary schools. Training provided under the PASS program will advance the goal of the 2016 Protecting Our Lives by Initiating COPS Expansion (POLICE) Act in offering scenario-based, integrated response courses designed to counter active shooter threats or acts of terrorism against individuals or facilities.
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 Criminal History Improvement Program (NCHIP) Training and Technical Assistance Program
This program funds technical assistance to support state, territorial and tribal jurisdictions in insuring that their systems to implement the National Criminal History Improvement Program (NCHIP), the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) Act Record Improvement Program (NARIP), and the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act conform to FBI standards.
Collaborative Reform Initiative Technical Assistance Center (CRI_TAC)
This competitive grant program provides funds to state, local and tribal law enforcement and correctional entities to develop and implement crisis response training programs and form partnerships with mental health, substance abuse disorder, and community service agencies to improve appropriate and effective responses to individuals in crisis who have behavioral health conditions, intellectual disabilities, developmental disabilities, or physical disabilities and to achieve safe outcomes for all individuals in the community.
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.
Virtual Reality De-escalation Site-Based Initiative
This competitive grant program provides funds for state, local, campus, and tribal law enforcement to enhance training via the utilization of fully immersive virtual reality-based technology. The training seeks to improve responses to individuals in crisis and improve the de-escalation skills of participants.
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.
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.
Connect and Protect: Law Enforcement Behavioral Health Response Program
This competitive grant program supports law enforcement–behavioral health cross-system collaboration to improve public health and safety as well as responses to and outcomes for individuals with mental health disorders or co-occurring mental health and substance use disorders.
Justice and Mental Health Collaboration Program (JMHCP)
This competitive grant program supports collaboration across criminal justice and mental health systems to improve public safety responses to individuals with mental illness, or with co-occurring mental illness and substance abuse.