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FY25 School Violence Prevention Program

Agency: Community Oriented Policing Services

Assistance Listings: 16.071 -- School Violence Prevention Program

Last Updated: April 24, 2025

Description

The Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS Office) is the component of the U.S. Department of Justice responsible for advancing the practice of community policing by the nation’s state, local, territorial, and tribal law enforcement agencies through information and grant resources. To date, the COPS Office has been appropriated more than $21 billion to advance community policing, including grants awarded to more than 13,000 state, local, territorial, and tribal law enforcement agencies to fund the hiring and redeployment of nearly 140,000 officers. COPS Office information resources,...

Eligibility

Eligible applicants

Education

  • Independent school districts

Government

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

Miscellaneous

  • Other

Additional information

The following entities are eligible to apply under this program; States, units of local government, Indian tribes, and their public agencies, including school districts, including public charter schools and school districts with a single school; school boards; law enforcement agencies. Note: Individual schools not operating as school districts and independent schools and private schools, including private charter schools, are NOT eligible to apply as primary applicants. Additional Applicant Eligibility Factors: Pursuant to 34 U.S.C. §§ 10552(a)(1)–(2), each application shall be accompanied by an assurance that the application was prepared after consultation with individuals not limited to law enforcement officers (including licensed mental health professionals, social workers, students, parents, school violence researchers/academics (if practical), teachers, principals, and other school personnel) to ensure that the improvements to be funded under the grant are consistent with a comprehensive approach to preventing school violence, including being protective of student privacy and ensuring that students are not discriminated against on the basis of race, national origin, disability, religion, or sex, and individualized to the needs of each school at which those improvements are to be made. In addition, state and local governmental entities must comply with 8 U.S.C. § 1373, which provides that state and local government entities may not prohibit, or in any way restrict, any government entity or official from sending to, receiving from, maintaining, or exchanging information regarding citizenship or immigration status, lawful or unlawful, of any individual with components of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security or any other federal, state or local government entity. This includes any prohibitions or restrictions imposed or established by a state or local government entity or official. For additional information, please see the appendices in the FY25 SVPP Application Resource Guide.

Grantor contact information

Description

COPS Office Response Center AskCOPSRC@usdoj.gov

Email

COPS Office Response Center

AskCOPSRC@usdoj.gov

Documents

No documents are currently available here

Link to additional information

COPS Grants

Closing: June 18, 2025

Application process

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Award

$73,000,000

Program Funding

200

Expected awards

$--

Award Floor

$500,000

Award Ceiling

Funding opportunity number:

O-COPS-2025-172379

Cost sharing or matching requirement:

Yes

Funding instrument type:

Grant

Opportunity Category:

Discretionary

Opportunity Category Explanation:

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Category of Funding Activity:

Law justice and legal services

Category Explanation:

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History

Version:

1

Posted date:

April 24, 2025

Archive date:

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