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BJA FY25 Second Chance Act Improving Reentry Education and Employment Outcomes

This program supports state, local, and tribal governments and community-based organizations to provide education and employment programs for people leaving jail and prison. The goal of the program is to improve academic and vocational/trade programs available to people in prisons and jails and expand workforce development and career pathways that result in improved job readiness, employment attainment, and retention thereby improving employment prospects and reducing recidivism. Applicants may consider proposing projects that develop marketable skills, leverage technology, and build capacity to align with their local job market and engage in the digital economy.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

Evaluation of BJA Byrne State Crisis Intervention Program (SCIP): Scan of Practices and Evaluability Assessments

With this solicitation, NIJ seeks proposals to examine programs funded by the Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) Byrne State Crisis Intervention Program (SCIP) in Fiscal Years 2022-2024.

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 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.

Federal Partners in Student Health Resource Hub

This technical assistance resource serves as a portal where K-12 schools, school districts, state education agencies, and other stakeholders can access high quality federal and federally supported information, resources, and research that support student physical and mental health.

Grants to Prevent and Respond to Domestic Violence, Dating Violence, Sexual Assault, Stalking, and Sex Trafficking Against Children and Youth Program

This competitive grant program supports comprehensive, community-based efforts that develop and expand prevention, intervention, treatment, and response strategies to address the needs of children and youth impacted by domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking.

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).

Research and Evaluation on School Safety

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

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.

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.

Luke and Alex School Safety Act – SchoolSafety.gov

The Luke and Alex School Safety Act, which was part of BSCA, created a Federal Clearinghouse on School Safety Evidence-based Practices within DHS (SchoolSafety.gov) that publishes evidence-based practices and recommendations to improve school safety for use by states, local educational agencies, institutions of higher education, state and local law enforcement agencies, health professionals, and the general public. Schoolsafety.gov also provides a grant tracker for school safety grant funds.

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.