Court System Improvements

BJA FY25 Veterans Treatment Court Program

This funding opportunity seeks to support the implementation and enhancement of veterans treatment court (VTC) operations. VTCs connect justice-involved veterans to treatment for substance use disorders (SUD), mental health disorders (MHD), co-occurring mental health and substance use disorders (MHSUD), post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and traumatic brain injury (TBI). Funding supports service coordination, and recovery support services. VTCs integrate mandatory drug testing, incentives and sanctions, and transitional services in judicially supervised criminal court settings that have jurisdiction over veterans with behavioral health treatment needs. These courts aim to reduce recidivism and overdose fatalities, while increasing access to treatment and recovery support that leads to long-term recovery.

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.

NIJ FY25 Research and Evaluation of Artificial Intelligence for Criminal Justice Purposes

This funding opportunity seeks to support research and evaluation that advances the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in the criminal justice system. The goal is to improve the fairness, accuracy, and effectiveness of criminal justice processes through AI applications in crime prevention, public safety, and justice system decision-making.

Juvenile Justice System Reform and Reinvestment Initiative

This funding opportunity seeks to support states’ implementation of innovative and/or research-based, data-informed policies to improve juvenile justice system outcomes and sustainable strategies for reinvesting resulting costs saved or averted into effective juvenile justice prevention and intervention programs

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.

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.

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.

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.

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).

OVW Fiscal Year 2026 Special Tribal Criminal Jurisdiction (STCJ) Grant Program

The Special Tribal Criminal Jurisdiction (STCJ) Grant Program supports Tribal governments in preparing to exercise or exercising STCJ over non-Indians who commit “covered” crimes within the Tribe’s jurisdictional boundaries. “Covered crimes” are: assault of Tribal justice personnel; child violence; dating violence; domestic violence; obstruction of justice; sexual violence; sex trafficking; stalking; and violation of a protection order.

Legal Assistance for Victims Program

This competitive grant program aims to increase the availability of civil and criminal legal assistance needed to effectively aid adult and youth victims of sexual assault, domestic violence, dating violence, and stalking by providing funds for comprehensive direct legal services to victims in legal matters relating to or arising out of that abuse or violence.

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

The ICJR Program assists Tribal, state, and local governments and courts to strengthen the criminal justice response to domestic/dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking by improving offender accountability, victim safety, homicide reduction, protection-order enforcement, and coordinated law enforcement and prosecutorial action. These sorts of activities treat these offenses as serious violations of criminal law and seek safety and autonomy for victims.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Byrne State Crisis Intervention Program

This formula grant program supports implementation of state crisis intervention court proceedings and related programs or initiatives, including extreme risk protection orders.

Byrne Discretionary Grants Program

This program provides Congressionally-earmarked funds to improve the functioning of the criminal justice system and to combat juvenile delinquency.

Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant (JAG) Program – Local Awards

The JAG Program is the leading source of federal criminal justice grant funding to state and local jurisdictions, providing providing formula-based funding for a broad range of program areas.

Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant (JAG) Program – State Awards

The JAG Program is the leading source of federal criminal justice grant funding for state and local jurisdictions, providing formula-based funding for a broad range of program areas.