Community Violence Prevention & Intervention
BJA FY25 Byrne State Crisis Intervention Training and Technical Assistance Program
This funding opportunity seeks to support training and technical assistance (TTA) providers to support grantees funded through the FY22–23 and FY24 Byrne State Crisis Intervention Program (SCIP) Formula opportunities as well as future Byrne SCIP Formula opportunities.
BJA FY25 Office of Justice Programs Community Based Violence Intervention and Prevention Initiative Site-Based
With this funding opportunity, the Office of Justice Programs seeks to prevent and reduce violent crime through comprehensive, evidence-informed violence intervention programs focused on those at highest risk. These programs include efforts to address gang and gun violence using community violence intervention strategies based on partnerships among community residents, local government agencies, victim service providers, community-based organizations, law enforcement, hospitals, researchers, and other community stakeholders.
Second Chance Act Community-based Reentry Program
This funding opportunity seeks to support organizations and tribal governments providing comprehensive reentry services to individuals who have been incarcerated.
FY25 U.S. Department of Justice Coordinated Tribal Assistance Solicitation
This funding opportunity seeks to provide funding to improve public safety and victim services in tribal communities. This provides federally recognized tribes and tribal consortia an opportunity to apply for funding to aid in developing a comprehensive and coordinated approach to public safety.
Community Based Violence Intervention and Prevention Initiative (FY22 Intermediaries)
This funding opportunity seeks applications from intermediary entities funded under the Office of Justice Programs Community Based Violence Intervention and Prevention Initiative opportunity to fund a second cohort of grassroots community violence intervention organizations and develop resources translating the success of this work.
Community Based Violence Intervention and Prevention Initiative (FY24 TTA)
This funding opportunity seeks applications from FY24 Community Based Violence Intervention and Prevention Initiative training and technical assistance (TTA) providers to enhance expertise in TTA network support and coordination, law enforcement engagement with community violence intervention programs, and strategic communications.
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.
COPS Office Invitational Program
This program will provide funding to for-profit (commercial) organizations, nonprofit organizations, institutions of higher education, community groups, and faith-based organizations to develop the capacity of law enforcement to implement community policing strategies by providing guidance on promising practices through the development and testing of innovative strategies; building knowledge about effective practices and outcomes; and supporting new, creative approaches to preventing crime and promoting safe communities.
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.
Community Based Violence Intervention and Prevention Initiative Training and Technical Assistance Program
This competitive grant program provides a range of training and technical assistance (TTA) to grantees and the field at large under the Community Based Violence Intervention and Prevention Initiative. This will build on the portfolio of existing providers and add new expertise in the following areas: trauma-informed practices and workforce development for Community Violence Intervention (CVI) organizations and staff, mass casualty shooting reviews, law enforcement engagement with CVI programs, TTA network support and coordination, and strategic communications.
Training and Technical Assistance for Justice-Focused Community-Based Organizations
This competitive grant program provides for the development, operation, and management of a training and technical assistance program for justice-focused community-based organizations directly serving communities disproportionately impacted by crime, violence, and victimization.
National Youth Violence Prevention Training and Technical Assistance (TTA) Program
This program funds efforts to provide practitioners with comprehensive resources and training materials through the OJJDP National Youth Violence Prevention Training and Technical Assistance (TTA) Program. A web-based resource hub will provide guidance to anyone seeking to implement effective and quality evidence-based programming.
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.
Project AWARE (Advancing Wellness and Resiliency in Education)
The purpose of Project AWARE is to develop a sustainable infrastructure for schoolbased mental health programs and services. It is expected that the recipient will build a collaborative partnership that includes the State Education Agency, the Local Education Agency, Tribal Education Agency, the State Mental Health Agency, community-based providers of behavioral health care services, school personnel, community organizations, families, and school-aged youth. Based on a public health model, this partnership will implement mental health related promotion, awareness, prevention, intervention, and resilience activities to ensure that students have access and are connected to appropriate and effective behavioral health services. SAMHSA expects that this program will promote the healthy social and emotional development of school-aged youth and prevent youth violence in school settings.
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.
Community Violence Prevention Resources for Action
The CDC provides resources and guidance materials on community violence prevention.
Student Support and Academic Enrichment Grants (Stronger Connections Grant Program)
The Bipartisan Safer Communities Act provided $1 billion under this program to remain available through FY25 for programs and activities that coordinate with community-based services and programs, promote parent involvement, and foster safe, healthy, supportive, and drug-free environments that support student academic achievement.
21st Century Community Learning Centers
This formula grant program supports the creation of community learning centers that provide academic enrichment opportunities during non-school hours for children, particularly students who attend high-poverty and low-performing schools.
American Rescue Plan’s Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief Fund (ESSER)
The American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (ARPA) included nearly $122 billion in resources for state education agencies and local education agencies through the ESSER Fund. State and local education agencies can use these funds for a range of evidence-based strategies that reduce violence and increase public safety, including community violence intervention (CVI) programs; summer and year-round programs that provide job training and work-based learning experience for students, including formerly incarcerated students, and disconnected youth who live in communities most impacted by high levels of violence; summer education and enrichment programs, including summer camp; wraparound services—such as medical care, mental health and substance use disorder care, and nutrition support—for students and their families, including hiring support personnel for schools; and more.
School Climate Transformation Grant—State Educational Agency Program
This program provides competitive grants to State educational agencies to develop, enhance, or expand systems of support for, and technical assistance to, local educational agencies and schools implementing an evidence-based, multi-tiered behavioral framework for improving behavioral outcomes and learning conditions for all students.
The Grants to Engage Men and Youth in Preventing Domestic Violence, Dating Violence, Sexual Assault, and Stalking Program
This competitive grant program seeks to engage men and youth in preventing domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking.
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.
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.