State/Territory

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.

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.

FY25 Improving Adult and Youth Crisis Stabilization and Community Reentry Program

This funding opportunity supports cross-system collaboration between criminal and juvenile justice agencies, mental health and substance use agencies, community-based organizations that provide reentry services, and community-based behavioral health providers. The goal of this program is to improve clinical stabilization pretrial, during confinement, and support continuity of care and recovery during the transition to the community through clinical and other evidence-based activities or services for individuals with serious mental illness, substance use disorders, and co-occurring disorders. In addition, this funding seeks to minimize the potential for experiencing crisis and improve recovery outcomes for people with serious mental illness, substance use disorders, and co-occurring disorders who are currently involved with the criminal or juvenile justice systems or reentering the community from these systems.

OVW Fiscal Year 2025 Training and Services to End Abuse in Later Life Program

This program supports a comprehensive approach to addressing abuse in later life, including domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, stalking, neglect, abandonment, economic abuse, or willful harm committed against victims who are 50 years of age or older.

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.

Nonprofit Security Grant Program National Security Supplemental

The Nonprofit Security Grant Program (NSGP) provides funding support for target hardening and other physical security enhancements and activities to nonprofit organizations that are at high risk of terrorist attack. The intent is to integrate nonprofit preparedness activities with broader state and local preparedness efforts.

Community Violence Intervention and Prevention Initiative Training and Technical Assistance Initiative

With this solicitation, the Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) seeks to fund five training and technical assistance providers to support grantees in the Office of Justice Programs’ Community Violence Intervention and Prevention Initiative and to provide supplemental funding to one site based grantee selected through this program in FY24.

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.

Safer Outcomes: Enhancing De-Escalation and Crisis Response Training for Law Enforcement – Support for Law Enforcement Agencies

This competitive grant program seeks to promote safe outcomes during police encounters with persons in crisis through training in de-escalation tactics, crisis intervention team participation, and safely responding to an individual experiencing a mental or behavioral health or suicidal crisis

Safer Outcomes: Enhancing De-Escalation and Crisis Response Training for Law Enforcement – Curriculum Integration for Law Enforcement Academies and State-Level Training Commissions

This competitive grant program supports law enforcement academy programs that integrate de-escalation and crisis response concepts throughout a curriculum of instruction used to train sworn officer candidates, as well as efforts that integrate de-escalation and crisis response concepts throughout the development of statewide law enforcement training standards.

NICS Act Record Improvement Program (NARIP)

This program supports state and tribal efforts to enhance the completeness, automation, and transmittal of records to state and federal systems used by the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS).

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 Strategy for Suicide Prevention

This program funds suicide prevention and intervention programs for adults, including by enhancing collaboration with key community stakeholders (e.g., county health departments, workplace settings, criminal justice settings, senior-serving organizations, community firearm stakeholders), raising awareness of the available resources for suicide prevention, and implementing lethal means safety.

Children’s Safety Network Program

The Children’s Safety Network program supports state agencies that seek to reduce child injury hospitalizations and deaths, including from firearms.

Community Violence Prevention Resources for Action

The CDC provides resources and guidance materials on community violence prevention.

STOP (Services, Training, Officers, and Prosecutors) Violence Against Women Formula Grant Program

The STOP (Services, Training, Officers, and Prosecutors) Violence Against Women Formula Grant Program supports local communities, including Indian tribal governments and Alaska Native villages, in their efforts to develop and strengthen effective responses to domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking.

State and Territorial Sexual Assault and Domestic Violence Coalitions Program

This formula grant program provides grants to each state and territorial domestic violence coalition and sexual assault coalition. Funds are for the purposes of coordinating victim services activities and collaborating and coordinating with federal, state, and local entities engaged in addressing violence against women. Statewide sexual assault coalitions provide direct support to member rape and crisis centers through funding, training and technical assistance, public awareness activities, and public policy advocacy. Statewide domestic violence coalitions provide comparable support to member battered women’s shelters and other domestic violence service providers.

Sexual Assault Services Formula Grant Program

This formula grant program assists states and territories in supporting rape crisis centers and other nonprofit, nongovernmental organizations or tribal programs that provide services, direct intervention, and related assistance to victims of sexual assault and their families.

Transitional Housing Assistance Grants for Victims of Domestic Violence, Dating Violence, Sexual Assault and Stalking Program

This competitive grant program supports programs that provide 6-24 months of transitional housing with support services for victims who are homeless or in need of transitional housing as a result of a situation of sexual assault, domestic violence, dating violence, or stalking, and for whom emergency shelter services or other crisis intervention services are unavailable or insufficient.