Deadline: 3-Jun-22
The Bureau of Justice Assistance’s (BJA) Students Teachers and Officers Preventing (STOP) School Violence Grant Program is now open 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 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
- 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, trainings, and resources.
Objectives
- 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.
- 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.
- School-based Community Violence Intervention Training (CVI) and Technical Assistance: Schoolbased 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.
Funding Information
- Estimated Total Program Funding: $5,000,000
- Award Ceiling: $2,000,000
Eligibility Criteria
Eligible Applicants:
- For profit organizations other than small businesses
- Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized)
- Native American tribal organizations (other than Federally recognized tribal governments)
- 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
- Public and state controlled institutions of higher education
- State governments
- other
For more information, visit Grants.gov.
For more information, visit https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=339803