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The grant opportunities come has South Texas mourns the lives of 21 residents at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas.
Please see below for the following grant opportunities. Please note that these have deadlines that are fast approaching. Please reach out to Alicia Seagraves at Alicia.seagraves@mail.house.gov for any additional support.
Enhancing School Capacity To Address Youth Violence
Project description: The OJJDP FY 2022 Enhancing School Capacity To Address Youth Violence program supports targeted efforts to address youth violence through implementing evidence-based prevention and intervention efforts in a school-based setting (K – 12th grade only). The goals of the program are to: (1) reduce the incidence of school violence through improved school safety and climate and (2) prevent youth violence, delinquency, and victimization in the targeted community.
There are two categories of funding available under this solicitation.
- Category 1: Project Sites. This program supports the efforts of eligible applicant organizations to develop or enhance their capacity to address youth violence and victimization through school-based programming and interventions targeting student and community needs.
- Category 2: Training and Technical Assistance. In addition to supporting program implementation and direct service activities, the initiative will fund a training and technical assistance provider to support the Category 1 project sites.
Eligibility:
- State governments
- Independent school districts
- Nonprofits that do not have a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
- For profit organizations other than small businesses
- Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
- Others (see text field entitled “Additional Information on Eligibility” for clarification)
- Public and State controlled institutions of higher education
- Private institutions of higher education
- County governments
- Special district governments
- City or township governments
Application due date: June 6, 2022
Project description: The goal of the COPS Hiring Program (CHP) is to provide funding directly to law enforcement agencies to hire and/or rehire additional career law enforcement officers in an effort to increase their community policing capacity and crime prevention efforts. Anticipated outcomes of CHP awards include engagement in planned community partnerships, implementation of projects to analyze and assess problems, implementation of changes to personnel and agency management in support of community policing, and increased capacity of agency to engage in community policing activities.
Eligibility:
- State governments
- Others (see text field entitled “Additional Information on Eligibility” for clarification)
- City or township governments
- County governments
Application due date: June 9, 2022
Preventing School Violence: BJA’s STOP School Violence Program
Project description: 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.
Eligibility:
- State, local, and university or college law enforcement agencies
Application due date: June 14, 2022
School Violence Prevention Program
Project description: The COPS Office School Violence Prevention Program (SVPP) provides funding directly to states, units of local government, Indian tribes, and their public agencies to improve security at schools and on school grounds in the recipient’s jurisdiction through evidence-based school safety programs. Pursuant to 34 U.S.C. § 10551(b)(5)-(9), SVPP funding is authorized and available under the following purpose areas:
- Coordination with local law enforcement
- Training for local law enforcement officers to prevent student violence against others and self
- Placement and use of metal detectors, locks, lighting, and other deterrent measures
- Acquisition and installation of technology for expedited notification of local law enforcement during an emergency
- Any other measure that, in the determination of the COPS Office Director, may provide a significant improvement in security
Eligibility:
- County governments
- Others (see text field entitled “Additional Information on Eligibility” for clarification)
- City or township governments
- State governments
- Independent school districts
Application due date: June 14, 2022
Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant (JAG) Program
Project description: The JAG Program provides states, tribes, and local governments with critical funding necessary to support a range of program areas including law enforcement, prosecution, indigent defense, courts, crime prevention and education, corrections and community corrections, drug treatment and enforcement, planning, evaluation, technology improvement, and crime victim and witness initiatives and mental health programs and related law enforcement and corrections programs, including behavioral programs and crisis intervention teams.
Eligibility:
- States
- City or township governments
- County governments
Application due date: This program is not currently accepting applications but will be opening soon
