The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), Office of Justice Programs (OJP), Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) seeks applications for funding to prevent violence in a K-12 school setting.
Donor Name: Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA)
State: All States
County: All Counties
U.S. Territories: American Samoa, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline (mm/dd/yyyy): 06/14/2022
Size of the Grant: $1,000,000 – $2,000,000
Grant Duration: 3 years
Details:
This program is based on the Student, Teachers, and Officers Preventing School Violence Act of 2018 (or STOP School Violence Act). The program seeks to increase school safety by implementing: training that will improve school climate using school-based behavioral threat assessments and/or intervention teams to identify school violence risks among students; technological solutions such as anonymous reporting technology that can be implemented as a mobile phone-based app, a hotline, or a website in the applicant’s geographic area to enable students, teachers, staff, and community members to anonymously identify threats of school violence; or other school safety strategies that assist in preventing violence.
Goals
- The goal of this program is to prevent and reduce school violence.
Objectives
The program’s objectives are to increase school safety using evidence-based solutions to prevent violence against schools, staff, and students and ensure a positive school climate. Applicants should also be mindful of the potential to cause or exacerbate trauma for some students and should use a trauma-informed approach when implementing program activities to help mitigate this concern.
Eligible applicants for Categories 1 or 2 may submit one application that includes proposals for one or more of the following areas:
- Developing and operating technology solutions
- Develop and implement multidisciplinary behavioral threat assessment (BTA) and/or intervention teams
- Train school personnel and educate students on preventing school violence, including strategies to improve a school climate
- Specialized training for law enforcement who work in schools and/or with school-age populations such as school resource officers (SROs) and probation officers
- The hiring of school support personnel such as climate specialists, school psychologists, school social workers, school-based violence interrupters, and others directly supporting the prevention of school violence
Funding Information
- Category 1 – $2,000,000.
- Category 2 – $1,000,000.
Period of Performance
- Period of Performance Duration (Months) – 36.
Eligibility Criteria
- Category 1:
- State governments
- Public and state-controlled institutions of higher education
- Category 2:
- City or township governments
- County governments
- Units of local governments
- Native American tribal governments (federally recognized)
- Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
- Private institutions of higher education
- Independent school districts
- For purposes of this solicitation, “state” means any state of the United States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands.
For more information, visit Grants.gov.
