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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).

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.

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.

National Criminal History Improvement Program (NCHIP)

1) NCHIP ($70,000,000)- This program aims to improve the nation’s safety and security by enhancing the quality, completeness, and accessibility of criminal history record information; and by ensuring the nationwide implementation of criminal justice and non-criminal justice background check systems. 2) NCHIP SF BSCA ($40,000,000) – This program furthers the DOJ’s mission to reduce violent crime and address gun violence by improving the accuracy, utility, and interstate accessibility of criminal-history and related records in support of national record systems and their use for name- and fingerprint-based… criminal history background checks. This program was developed to implement Title III, Division B (3) – Appropriations outlined in the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act (Pub. L. 117-159). 3) NARIP ($25,000,000)- This program provides grants to assist states, state court systems and tribal governments in updating the FBI’s National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) with certain mental health, protection and restraining order, domestic violence conviction, and other criminal history record information which may disqualify individuals from purchasing or possessing firearms. BJS coordinates its work on the NICS program with the efforts of the National Criminal History Improvement Program (NCHIP) to ensure that funded state and state court system programs are complementary and consistent with the overall goal of improving the accuracy, completeness, and timeliness of state and national criminal records.

National Criminal History Improvement Program Supplemental Funding

This competitive grant program provides funds to reduce violent crime and address gun violence by improving the accuracy, utility, and interstate accessibility of criminal-history and related records in support of national record systems and their use for name- and fingerprint-based criminal history background checks.

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.

Coordinated Tribal Assistance Solicitation (CTAS)

This competitive grant program provides funding to federally recognized tribes and tribal consortia to improve public safety and victim services in tribal communities. Purpose areas may allow for eligible school safety expenses including the hiring of School Resource Officers and the development of, or to enhance existing, school-involved Youth Healing to Wellness Courts.

Patrick Leahy Bulletproof Vest Partnership (BVP) Program

This program reimburses states, units of local government, and federally recognized Indian tribes for up to 50 percent of the cost of body armor vests purchased for law enforcement officers.

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.

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.

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.

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.