CFDA#
16.839
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Funder Type
Federal Government
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IT Classification
C - Funds little to no technology
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Authority
Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA)
Summary
The STOP School Violence (SSV) Program is designed to improve school safety by providing students, teachers, and staff with the tools they need to recognize, respond quickly to, and prevent acts of violence. The program implements 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 shown to increase school safety such as anonymous reporting technology, and other school safety strategies that assist in preventing violence.
Program objectives include:
- Train school personnel and educate students on preventing student violence against others and themselves. This can also include any program shown to improve school climate, such as anti-bullying training, or specialized training for school officials and law enforcement to respond to mental health crises.
- Increase school safety by developing and implementing threat assessment and/or intervention teams to identify school violence risks and implement strategies to mitigate those risks.
- Implement a technology solution, such as an anonymous reporting technology that can be implemented as a smartphone app, a hotline, or a website in the applicant's geographic area designed to provide a way for students, teachers, faculty, and community members to anonymously identify school violence threats, or other technology solutions that will improve school safety.
- Implement other school safety solutions that help prevent school violence and improve school climate, such as increasing access to school-based behavioral health services, implementing social and emotional learning programs, or applying other interventions that promote a positive and healthy school climate.
- Train school-based law enforcement officers or probation officers who work with school-based populations.
- Hire personnel to improve a school climate and positive responses to student behavior.
History of Funding
2023 examples of funded projects can be seen at: https://bja.ojp.gov/funding/opportunities/o-bja-2023-171666
2021 recipients can be seen at: https://bja.ojp.gov/funding/opportunities/o-bja-2021-47003
2020 recipients can be seen at: https://bja.ojp.gov/funding/awards/list?field_award_status_value=All&state=All&field_funding_type_value=All&fiscal_year=2020&combine_awards=stop+school+violence&awardee=&city=#awards-awards-list-block-r218id0f1ht-yltn
Additional Information
Eligible applicants may submit one application that includes proposals for one or more of the following areas:
- Developing and operating technology solutions such as anonymous reporting systems for threats of school violence, including mobile telephone applications, hotlines, websites, or other school safety 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.
- 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.
- Implement community violence intervention strategies in a school setting.
- Implement simulation-based experiential learning.
- Partner with local law enforcement.
- Support school-based diagnostic mental health services or school-based mental health treatment services.
SSV funds may not be used to address violence on the campus of an institution of higher education (IHE). Applicant institutions of higher education may apply to implement programs in other educational environments, such as K–12 schools. Additionally, SSV funds may not be used for the purchase of target hardening equipment to secure schools such as cameras, security systems, fencing, locks, drug- or firearm-detecting dogs, and more. In addition, these funds cannot be used to hire armed security officers or school resource officers.
Eligibility Details
Eligible applicants are split into Category 1 and Category 2:
Category 1: States
- State governments
- Public and state-controlled institutions of higher education (IHEs)
Category 2: Localities, Nonprofits, and School Districts:
- City or township governments
- County governments
- Native American tribal governments (federally recognized)
- Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS (other than IHEs)
- Nonprofits that do not have a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS (other than IHEs)
- Private IHEs
- Independent school districts
- Other - units of local government (e.g., towns, boroughs, parishes, villages, or other general purpose political subdivisions of a state)
Private K–12 schools, including private charter schools, should apply as nonprofits.” Public charter schools should apply as independent school districts.”
Deadline Details
Originally, applicants were to submit their SF-424 and SF-LLL forms to Grants.gov by March 27, 2025 11:59 PM ET. Full applications were to be submitted to JustGrants by April 3, 2025 8:59 PM ET. Similar deadlines are anticipated annually.
NOTE: This program is currently under review by the DOJ and information is not available at this time. New Deadline is TBA.
Award Details
In FY 2025, $83,000,000 is available for an anticipated 79 awards.
- Category 1 applicants: Total number of awards BJA expects to make is 10. Maximum dollar amount for each award is up to $2,000,000.
- Category 2 applicants: Total number of awards BJA expects to make is 69. Maximum dollar amount for each award is up to $1,000,000.
Period of performance for both Category 1 and 2 is 36 months, beginning October 1, 2025. Cost sharing is not required.
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