U.S. Attorney Michael Bailey Announces More Than $83 Million Available to Support School Safety

PHOENIX, Ariz. – U.S. Attorney Michael Bailey today announced that more than $83 million in Department of Justice grants is available to help communities improve school security and protect students, teachers and faculty from threats of violence.

“School violence is no longer an abstract threat but has become a tragic reality in too many of America’s communities. Moving to meet this challenge is among the Administration’s top domestic priorities,” said Katharine T. Sullivan, Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Justice Programs. “The Department of Justice is front and center in the fight to meet this challenge. OJP is making historic amounts of grant funding available to ensure that our communities have access to innovative and diverse solutions.”

 The funding is available through OJP, the federal government’s leading source of public safety funding and crime victim assistance in state, local and tribal jurisdictions. OJP’s programs support a wide array of activities and services, including programs designed to tighten school security and improve the reporting of threats. 

A number of funding opportunities for school safety are currently open: 

• Research and Evaluation on School Safety
  https://nij.ojp.gov/funding/opportunities/nij-2020-17308
  Total Available $5 million. Deadline 4/13/2020.
   
• STOP Act School Violence Program (FY20)
  https://nij.ojp.gov/funding/opportunities/nij-2020-17308
  Total Available $71.4 million. Deadline 4/13/2020.
   
• Strategies to Support Children Exposed to Violence  
  https://ojjdp.ojp.gov/funding/opportunities/ojjdp-2020-17926
  Total Available $7 million. Deadline 4/27/2020.
   

For more information regarding all OJP funding opportunities, visit https://www.ojp.gov/funding/explore/current-funding-opportunities.

RELEASE NUMBER:  2020-040_School Safety Grants

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