With this solicitation, Office of Juvenile Justice Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) seeks to support targeted efforts to address youth violence in a
school-based setting (K–12th grade only).
Donor Name: Office of Juvenile Justice Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP)
State: All States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 06/10/2024
Size of the Grant: $500,000 to $1 million
Grant Duration: 3 Years
Details:
The goal of this initiative is to support the development and expansion of strategies that increase school safety and promote a positive and supportive school climate by preventing and reducing school violence.
Objectives
OJJDP has identified the following specific program objectives:
- Improve school capacity to prevent incidents of violence and intervene early to address them.
- Enhance and expand partnerships between school systems and community-based organizations to address school violence.
- Expand opportunities for family engagement with school personnel to mutually address risk factors for violence.
- Improve communication between home and school to enhance protective factors for student success.
Funding Information
- Estimated Total Program Funding: $23,000,000
- Award Ceiling: $1,000,000
Project Period
36 months
Eligibility Criteria
- State governments
- City or township governments
- Public– and state-controlled institutions of higher education
- County governments
- Native American Tribal organizations (other than federally recognized Tribal governments)
- Native American Tribal governments (federally recognized)
- Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
- Nonprofits that do not have a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
- Private institutions of higher education
- For-profit organizations other than small businesses
- Independent school districts
- Units of local government (such as towns, boroughs, parishes, villages, or other general purpose political subdivisions of a state)
For the purposes of this notice of funding opportunity, “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.
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