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: 06/03/2022
Size of the Grant: $1,000,000 – $2,000,000
Grant Duration: 2 years
Details:
BJA’s Students Teachers and Officers Preventing (STOP) School Violence Grant Program is designed to improve K-12 school security by providing students and teachers with the tools they need to recognize, respond quickly to, and help prevent acts of violence and ensure a positive school climate. This specialized training and technical assistance (TTA) program will enhance the capacity of educational and other professionals who work with school-age populations to recognize a combination of factors that may lead to school violence and address the service needs of students.
Goals
The overall goals for each program (Category), as described below, are meant to provide a general overview and guidance for what BJA is seeking under this solicitation.
- Increase the knowledge and skills of state, local, and tribal law enforcement agencies in school safety through cutting-edge, innovative resources, training, and technical assistance (both remote and onsite).
- Increase the guidance and resources available to schools, school safety practitioners, and the criminal justice community.
- Identify and address current and emerging school safety threats and concerns to education professionals, students, and law enforcement.
- Serve as a resource for information and research about national and statewide school safety initiatives, and collect and disseminate information on school safety initiatives and school safety data.
- Raise awareness of BJA’s school safety programs, training, and resources.
Objectives
- Category 1 – Training and Technical Assistance for Law Enforcement Who Work in Schools and/or with Schoolage Populations: This category’s objective is to enhance the capacity of law enforcement (typically school resource officers [SROs]) and probation officers working with school populations to recognize and address behavior that may lead to school violence in a way that does not increase the likelihood that these students enter the criminal justice system. This effort will provide specialized training on topics essential to the performance of the SRO function.
- Category 2 – Training and Technical Assistance to Improve Responses to Students in Crisis: This category’s objective is to enhance the capacity of SROs and education professionals to effectively identify and respond to students with behavioral health conditions or developmental disabilities with best-practice model response efforts and services that meet these students’ individual needs, and to effectively manage the student population during a crisis. This response includes identifying and deescalating bystander reactions in a developmentally and culturally appropriate manner, which includes juvenile justice and behavioral health professionals.
- Category 3 – School-based Community Violence Intervention Training (CVI) and Technical Assistance: School-based violence is incident-based and often involves personal conflict between two individuals. This category’s objective is to enhance the capacity of schools to implement CVI programs through the development of tools, resources, and program models. These tools should help law enforcement officers and education professionals to recognize and address the combination of individual, relationship, community, and societal factors that contribute to the risk of youth violence. Additionally, since efforts to make school buildings and classrooms physically more secure can create vulnerabilities and increase victimization by sexual assault, this effort will focus on developing resources for schools to assess, evaluate, and address those potential risks.
Funding Information
- Category 1 – Training and Technical Assistance for Law Enforcement Who Work in Schools and/or with Schoolage Populations – $2,000,000.
- Category 2 – Training and Technical Assistance to Improve Responses to Students in Crisis – $2,000,000.
- Category 3 – School-based Community Violence Intervention Training (CVI) and Technical Assistance – $1,000,000.
Grant Period
- Period of Performance Duration (Months) – 24.
For more information, visit Grants.gov.
