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BJA FY 20 Preventing School Violence: BJA's STOP School Violence Program

Agency: Bureau of Justice Assistance

Assistance Listings
  • 16.839 -- STOP School Violence

Closed opportunityLast Updated: May 13, 2026

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Description

BJA's STOP School Violence Grant Program is designed to improve school security by providing students and teachers with the tools they need to recognize, respond quickly to, and help prevent acts of violence. The goal of this program is to address specific areas of concern related to preventing and reducing school violence. The program's objective is to increase school safety by implementing training and school 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...

Eligibility

Eligible applicants

Government

  • Special district governments
  • City or township governments
  • County governments
  • State governments
  • Federally recognized Native American tribal governments

Education

  • Independent school districts
  • Public and state institutions of higher education

Nonprofit

  • Nonprofits non-higher education with 501(c)(3)

Additional information

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Grantor contact information

Description

For technical assistance with submitting an application, contact the Grants.gov Customer Support Hotline at 800–518–4726 or 606–545–5035, at https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/support.html, or at support@grants.gov. The Grants.gov Support Hotline operates 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, except on federal holidays. An applicant that experiences unforeseen Grants.gov technical issues beyond its control that prevent it from submitting its application by the deadline must email the contact identified below within 24 hours after the application deadline to request approval to submit its application after the deadline. Additional information on reporting technical issues appears under “Experiencing Unforeseen Grants.gov Technical Issues” in the How To Apply (Grants.gov) section in the OJP Grant Application Resource Guide. For assistance with any unforeseen Grants.gov technical issues beyond an applicant’s control that prevent it from submitting its application by the deadline, or any other requirement of this solicitation, contact the National Criminal Justice Reference Service (NCJRS) Response Center: toll-free at 800–851–3420; via TTY at 301–240–6310 (hearing impaired only); email grants@ncjrs.gov; fax to 301–240–5830; or web chat at https://webcontact.ncjrs.gov/ncjchat/chat.jsp. The NCJRS Response Center hours of operation are 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. eastern time, Monday through Friday, and 10:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. eastern time on the solicitation close date. support@grants.gov

Email

Technical Application Assistance

support@grants.gov

Documents

No documents are currently available.

Link to additional information

https://bja.ojp.gov/STOP20

Closed: June 9, 2020

Application process

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Award

$71,500,000

Program Funding

150

Expected awards

$--

Award Minimum

$2,000,000

Award Maximum

Funding opportunity number:

BJA-2020-17312

Cost sharing or matching requirement:

No

Funding instrument type:

Grant

Opportunity Category:

Discretionary

Opportunity Category Explanation:

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Category of Funding Activity:

Disaster prevention and relief

Education

Community development

Science technology and other research and development

Humanities

Information and statistics

Employment labor and training

Category Explanation:

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History

Version:

1

Posted date:

March 11, 2020

Archive date:

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