2024 Targeted Violence and Terrorism Prevention Grant Program - fundsforNGOs

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS’s) Center for Prevention Programs and Partnerships (CP3) anticipates releasing the Fiscal Year (FY) 2024 Targeted Violence and Terrorism Prevention (TVTP) Grant Program.

Donor Name: Department of Homeland Security

State: All States

County: All Counties

Type of Grant: Grant

Deadline: 05/02/2024

Size of the Grant: $500,000 to $1 million

Grant Duration: 2 Years

Details:

Acts of targeted violence and terrorism are often preventable occurences. American communities continue to be vulnerable to these threats – forms of violence that impact collective sense of security and freedom as Americans. CP3 strengthens country’s ability to prevent targeted violence and terrorism nationwide, through funding, training, increased public awareness, and partnerships across every level of government, the private sector, and in local communities. Leveraging an approach informed by public health research, CP3 brings together mental health providers, educators, faith leaders, public health and safety officials, social services, nonprofits, and others in communities across the country to help people who are on a pathway to violence before harm occurs. The TVTP Grant Program provides financial assistance, training, and resources to eligible applicants. These grants enable recipients to develop sustainable, multidisciplinary TVTP capabilities in local communities, pilot innovative prevention approaches, and identify prevention best practices that can be replicated in communities across the country.

Lone offenders and small cells of individuals motivated by a range of violent extremist ideologies, of both domestic and foreign origin, continue to pose a persistent terrorism-related threat facing the United States. Among domestic violent extremists, racially or ethnically motivated extremists will likely remain a lethal threat. Since 2020, DHS has also seen a significant increase in anti-government and anti-authority threats, which typically target law enforcement, elected officials, and government personnel and facilities. The TVTP Grant program will continue to support projects that aim to prevent all forms of targeted violence and terrorism as well as projects that focus on preventing the most pressing current targeted violence and terrorism threats.

Priorities

The FY24 TVTP Grant Program will have the following priorities:

Enhancing Recidivism Reduction and Reintegration Capabilities;
Advancing Equity in Awards and Engaging Underserved Communities in Prevention;
Addressing Online Aspects of Targeted Violence and Terrorism;
Preventing Domestic Violent Extremism.

Objectives

The objectives are:

The local community has awareness of the signs that someone may be on a pathway to violence and of the threats of targeted violence and terrorism.
The local community has awareness of both the risk factors for and the protective factors against targeted violence and terrorism. Risk factors are defined as negative characteristics that may increase the likelihood that an individual is on a pathway to violence. Protective factors are defined as positive characteristics that may decrease the likelihood that an individual may move toward violence.
Members of the local community engage the broadest and most diverse set of local stakeholders, sharing resources and best practices, and building trusted partnerships to address targeted violence and terrorism.
Members of the local community can act on bystander training and help individuals before they move toward violence by understanding the role of (and the means to contact) behavioral threat assessment and management (BTAM) teams and prevention providers in the public health community.
Members of the local community have access to multidisciplinary BTAM teams comprised of individuals such as psychologists, educators, faith leaders, social workers, and medical personnel that can provide support to an individual before an act of violence takes place.
The local community has programs that address risk factors for (and strengthen protective factors against) targeted violence and terrorism, including recidivism reduction programming.

Funding Information