Purpose

This funding opportunity supports school safety by equipping K–12 students, teachers, and staff with tools to recognize, respond to, and prevent acts of violence.  The program encourages initiatives that enhance school climate, including school-based behavioral threat assessment and intervention teams to identify violence risks, technologies like anonymous reporting tools, and other evidence-based strategies to reduce violence.  Awards are determined by the Bureau of Justic Assistance within the Office of Justice Programs in the U.S. Department of Justice and divided among two categories of recipients:

1. States and state-controlled institutions of higher education (Category 1 grants), and
2. Localities, nonprofits and school districts (Category 2 grants).

This notice focuses on Category 2 grants.

Eligible Entities

The following types of organizations are eligible to apply for a Category 2 grant:

• Private K–12 schools, including private charter schools
• Nonprofits with and without 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
• Public charter schools
• Independent school districts
• Units of local government
• Special district governments
• City or township governments, and boroughs, parishes, villages, or other general purpose political subdivisions of a state
• County governments
• Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized)
• Private institutions of higher education

Eligible Activities

The following types of activities executed over a 36-month period are consistent with the program's goals and objectives:

• Train school personnel and educate students on preventing student violence (e.g., anti-bullying, or specialized training to respond to mental health crises).
• Develop threat assessment and/or intervention teams to identify and mitigate risks.
• Implement technology using a smartphone app, a hotline, or a website that enables students, teachers, faculty, and community members to anonymously report threats.
• Increase access to school-based behavioral health services, social and emotional learning programs, or similar interventions.
• Train school-based law enforcement officers or probation officers who work with school-based populations.

Award

Total Amount to be Awarded, Categories 1 and 2: $83,000,000

Anticipated Award Ceiling, Category 2: Up to $1,000,000

Anticipated Number of Awards, Category 2:  69

Successful applicants also will receive free training and technical assistance from the National Center for School Safety. The Center has a clearinghouse of publications, toolkits and webinars on topics related to the STOP School Violence Program.

Important Dates

Next Steps

For additional information, please read the Full Announcement or refer to the OJP Grant Application Resource Guide.

Applications must be submitted to DOJ electronically through a two-step process that begins in Grants.gov and is completed in  JustGrants.

For assistance with the requirements of this funding opportunity, please call the OJP Response Center at 800-851-3420 or 301-240-6310 (TTY for hearing-impaired callers only), or email grants@ncjrs.gov.

For assistance with SAM.gov (registration/renewal), go to SAM.gov Help Desk, or call 866-606-8220.

For assistance with Grants.gov, go to Grants.gov Customer Support, call the hotline at 800-518-4726, 606-545-5035, or email support@grants.gov.

For assistance with JustGrants, refer to Training: Application Submission, contact the JustGrants Service Desk at 833-872-5175, or email JustGrants.Support@usdoj.gov.

For procedures related to unforeseen technical issues, see "Experiencing Technical Issues Preventing Submission of an Application (Technical Waivers)" in the Full Announcement.

Funding Opportunity Number: O-BJA-2025-172340