Local Government

BJA National Training Technical Assistance (NTTAC)

BJA’s NTTAC provides no-cost training and technical assistance to law enforcement agencies, prosecutors’ offices, corrections departments, and city or county commissioners on a variety of criminal justice issues including in-person and virtual instruction. Issues covered include implementing community-based violence intervention strategies.

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.

National Public Safety Partnership—Capacity Building Grant Limited Competition Grant Solicitation

This competitive grant program provides state/local prosecutors and local law enforcement agencies who have participated in the National Public Safety Partnership (PSP) with funding to secure necessary resources identified in the PSP program assessments that will help reduce crime and increase public safety and trust in the criminal justice system.

Community Based Violence Intervention and Prevention Initiative

This funding opportunity supports law enforcement efforts to reduce violent crime and improve police-community relations through a range of cross-sector enforcement, prevention, and intervention strategies that leverage active collaboration with communities through sustained partnerships and engagement. Whereas the program was previously open to a range of eligible applicants, FY2025 funding is only made available for local governments and tribes.

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.

Smart Prosecution – Innovative Prosecution Solutions

This competitive grant program provides state, local, and tribal prosecutors with funding for evidence-based prosecution strategies to reduce crime and increase public safety and trust in the criminal justice system.

Improving Adult and Youth Crisis Stabilization and Community Reentry Program

This competitive grant program provides funding to state, local, and tribal governments, as well as community-based nonprofit organizations, to enhance or implement clinical services and other evidence-based activities or services to improve reentry, reduce recidivism, and address the treatment and recovery needs of people with mental health, substance use, or co-occurring disorders who are currently involved in the criminal justice system or were formerly involved.

Rural and Small Department Violent Crime Reduction Initiative (RVCRI)

This competitive grant program provides funding to law enforcement agencies and prosecutors’ offices to implement violent crime reduction strategies, improve investigations and services to victims, and enhance collaboration between local stakeholders.

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.

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.

STOP School Violence Program

This competitive grant program aims to support school safety by implementing solutions to enhance school climate, establish school-based behavioral threat assessment and intervention teams to identify violence risks, introduce technologies like anonymous reporting tools, and apply other evidence-based strategies to prevent violence. The goal is to equip K–12 students, teachers, and staff with tools to recognize, respond to, and prevent acts of violence.

Crime Gun Intelligence Center Integration Initiative (CGIC)

This competitive grant program provides funds to areas experiencing increases in gun-related violent crime to help them work with ATF to utilize intelligence, technology, and community engagement to swiftly identify unlawfully used firearms and their sources and effectively prosecute perpetrators engaged in violent crime.

Byrne Discretionary Grants Program

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

Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant (JAG) Program – Local Awards

The JAG Program is the leading source of federal criminal justice grant funding to state and local jurisdictions, providing providing formula-based funding for a broad range of program areas.

Collaborative Crisis Response and Intervention Training Program

This competitive grant program seeks to support state, local, and tribal law enforcement and correctional entities to develop and implement crisis response training programs.