Research & Evaluation

NIJ FY25 Research and Evaluation on Violence Against Women

This funding opportunity seeks to support the development of objective and independent knowledge and validated tools to reduce violence against women, promote justice for victims of crime, and enhance criminal justice responses.

NIJ FY25 Social Science Research and Evaluation on Forensic Science Systems

This funding opportunity seeks proposals for rigorous applied social science research and evaluative studies on the forensic science system. The field of forensic science is changing, particularly as technological advancements improve the criminal justice system’s ability to use forensic evidence more effectively and efficiently. NIJ requests applicants in two categories: Category 1: Social Science Research and Evaluation on the Forensic Science System – Category 2: Evaluability Assessment of Crime Gun Intelligence (CGI) Resources

NIJ FY25 Graduate Research Fellowship

This funding opportunity seeks to support doctoral students whose dissertation research is relevant to preventing and controlling crime, advancing knowledge of victimization and effective victim services, or ensuring the fair and impartial administration of criminal or juvenile justice in the United States. This furthers the DOJ mission by increasing the pool of researchers who are engaged in providing science-based solutions to problems relevant to criminal and juvenile justice policy and practice in the United States.

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 for the Testing and Interpretation of Physical Evidence in Publicly Funded Forensic Laboratories

This funding opportunity seeks proposals for research and evaluation studies to produce practical knowledge that has the potential to improve the examination and interpretation of physical evidence in forensic science laboratories across the community of practice. This program furthers DOJ’s mission by supporting the development of new knowledge and tools to address the challenges of crime and justice in the United States.

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.

NIJ FY25 Research and Evaluation on Drugs and Crime: Nexus with Firearms and Violence

This funding opportunity seeks applications for rigorous applied research on drugs and crime to inform the development of evidence-based tools, practices, and policies for state, tribal, and local law enforcement and other criminal justice agencies that address drug trafficking, drug markets, and drug-related violence. The FY25 research priority is firearms — the intersection of drug crimes and firearm offenses in trends, interdiction, and prosecution, and efforts to disrupt those criminal activities and related violence.

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.

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.

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.

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.

988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline Administrator grants

The purpose of this program is to serve as the 988 Lifeline Administrator and manage, enhance, and strengthen the 988 Lifeline. The 988 Lifeline Administrator will maintain a robust network of crisis contact centers, implement, and oversee the national standards of care and quality to ensure that everyone who contacts the 988 Lifeline receives access to skilled, caring, culturally competent crisis counselors.

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.

Project 2025

Project 2025 is a set of resources from the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention aimed at reducing the annual rate of suicide by 20 percent by 2025. The website provides guidance and resources in four areas of intervention, one of which is firearms.

National Institutes of Health research

The National Institutes of Health provides grant funding for research into firearms violence prevention. Funding opportunities can be found on the NIH’s searchable website

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.

National Center on Safe and Supportive Learning Environments (NCSSLE)

This technical assistance resource provides training and technical assistance to schools, school districts, and educational agencies to support efforts aimed at creating and nurturing safe and supportive learning environments.

Federal Partners in Student Health Resource Hub

This technical assistance resource serves as a portal where K-12 schools, school districts, state education agencies, and other stakeholders can access high quality federal and federally supported information, resources, and research that support student physical and mental health.

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.