Training & Technical Assistance

Community Relations Service

The Community Relations Service provides guidance for communities facing conflict based on actual or perceived race, color, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, or disability, providing facilitated dialogue, mediation, training, and consultation to assist these communities to come together, develop solutions to the conflict, and enhance their capacity to independently prevent and resolve future conflict.

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.

Mass Violence Advisory Initiative (MVAI)

The MVAI is a collaboration between the BJA and the International Association of Chiefs of Police that provides peer-to-peer assistance to law enforcement leaders related to preparation, response and recovery efforts for mass violence and mass casualty events.

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.

National Initiatives: Law Enforcement Training and Technical Assistance

This funding opportunity seeks to fund training and technical assistance (TTA) programs for eight national initiatives to support law enforcement and criminal justice stakeholders in key criminal justice areas. Delivered TTA will be site-based, program-specific TTA and broader TTA for the field. This program furthers DOJ’s mission by supporting and assisting state, local, territorial, and tribal jurisdictions in improving the criminal justice system and enhancing efforts to prevent, investigate, and respond to crime.

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.

STOP School Violence Training and Technical Assistance (STOP TTA) Program

This competitive grant program provides funding for establishing a Center to provide support, training and technical assistance for the STOP School Violence Program.

Smart Policing Initiative Grant Program

This competitive grant program provides funding to support innovative and evidence-based policing practices, more effective information sharing, and multiagency collaboration under the Smart Policing Initiative Program.

School Climate Transformation Grant—Local Educational Agency program

This program provides competitive grants to local educational agencies to develop, enhance, or expand systems of support for, and technical assistance to, schools implementing a multi-tiered system of support, for improving school climate. by using evidence-based efforts that are designed to foster safety; promote supportive academic, disciplinary, and physical environments; and/or encourage and maintain respectful, trusting, and caring relationships throughout the school community.

Mental Health Service Professional Demonstration Grant Program

This program provides competitive grants to support and demonstrate innovative partnerships to train school-based mental health service providers for employment in schools and local educational agencies.

Grants to States for School Emergency Management Grant Program

This program provides competitive grants to State educational agencies to increase their capacity to assist local educational agencies by providing training and technical assistance in the development and implementation of high-quality school emergency operations plans including plans focusing on violence prevention, protection, mitigation, response, and recovery.

Byrne Discretionary Grants Program

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