State/Territory

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.

Rural Domestic Violence, Dating Violence, Sexual Assault, and Stalking Program

This competitive grant program provides funds to enhance the safety of rural victims of sexual assault, domestic violence, dating violence, and stalking and to support projects uniquely designed to address and prevent these crimes in rural areas. This program encourages collaboration among criminal justice agencies, victim services providers, social services agencies, health professionals, and other community organizations to overcome the problems of sexual assault, domestic violence, dating violence, and stalking in rural communities.

The Grants to Support Families in the Justice System Program

This competitive grant program supports the following activities for improving the capacity of courts and communities to respond to families affected by the targeted crimes: court-based and court-related programs; supervised visitation and safe exchange by and between parents; training for people who work with families in the court system; civil legal services; and the provision of resources in juvenile court matters.

Improving Criminal Justice Response (ICJR) Program

This competitive grant program assists state, local, and Tribal governments, and courts to improve the criminal justice response to domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking as serious violations of criminal law, and to seek safety and autonomy for victims.

The Training and Services to End Violence and Abuse Against Individuals with Disabilities and Deaf People Program

This competitive grant program helps to establish and strengthen multidisciplinary collaborative relationships; increase organizational capacity to provide accessible, safe, and effective services to individuals with disabilities and Deaf individuals who are victims of violence and abuse; identify needs within the grantee’s organization and/or service area; and develop a plan to address those identified needs that builds a strong foundation for future work.

Enhanced Training and Services to End Abuse in Later Life Program

This competitive grant program funds projects that support a comprehensive approach to addressing elder abuse in their communities. These projects will provide training to criminal justice professionals to enhance their ability to address elder abuse, neglect, and exploitation; provide cross-training opportunities to professionals working with older victims; establish or support a coordinated community response to elder abuse; and provide or enhance services for victims who are 50 years of age or older.

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.

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.

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 program funds a provider of nationwide scenario-based training for officers and first responders to prepare for school active shooter situations.

Community Policing Development Microgrants Program

This competitive grant program helps develop the capacity of law enforcement to implement community policing strategies, including funding for targeted community-based violence intervention.

Community Policing Development (CPD) Program

This competitive grant program provides funding to law enforcement agencies to implement community policing strategies including crisis intervention teams, de-escalation training, and tolerance, diversity and anti-bias training.

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.