Description
Deadlines for the following FY 2021 solicitations have been extended:
- Comprehensive Opioid, Stimulant, and Substance Abuse Site-based Program
- Comprehensive Opioid, Stimulant, and Substance Abuse Program Training and Technical Assistance Program - Logistics
- DNA Capacity Enhancement for Backlog Reduction (CEBR) Program
- Economic, High-Technology, White Collar, and Internet Crime Prevention National Training and Technical Assistance Program
- Innovations in Reentry Initiative: Building System Capacity & Testing Strategies to Reduce Recidivism
- Safeguarding Correctional Facilities and Public Safety by Addressing Contraband Cellphones Program
- Sexual Assault Forensic Evidence – Inventory, Tracking, and Reporting
- Smart Probation: Innovations in Supervision Initiative
As funding opportunities become available from the Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA), they will be included below. Subscribe to NewsFromBJA to receive funding announcements.
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FY 2021 Comprehensive Opioid, Stimulant, and Substance Abuse Program Training and Technical Assistance Program - Logistics
Closing Date
This program provides funding to support various training and technical assistance providers and comprehensive strategies in response to the growing addiction crisis that continues to impact our nation’s families and communities.
FY 2021 Innovations in Reentry Initiative: Building System Capacity & Testing Strategies to Reduce Recidivism
Closing Date
This program provides resources to states, units of local government, and federally recognized Indian tribal governments to plan, implement, or expand effective reentry practices and service delivery systems that address individuals’ needs and reduce recidivism.
FY 2021 Safeguarding Correctional Facilities and Public Safety by Addressing Contraband Cellphones Program
Closing Date
Funding through this program is used to enhance, test, implement, and evaluate policies, practices, and technology to address and reduce the use of contraband cellphones in correctional facilities.
FY 2021 Sexual Assault Forensic Evidence – Inventory, Tracking, and Reporting
Closing Date
Funding through this program is used to implement an evidence management program to inventory, track, and report untested and unsubmitted sexual assault kits.
FY 2021 DNA Capacity Enhancement for Backlog Reduction (CEBR) Program
Closing Date
This program provides funding to states and units of local government with existing crime laboratories that conduct DNA analysis to increase the capacity of publicly funded forensic DNA and DNA database laboratories to process more DNA samples, thereby helping to reduce the number of forensic DNA and DNA database samples awaiting analysis and/or prevent a backlog of forensic and database DNA samples.
FY 2021 Economic, High-Technology, White Collar, and Internet Crime Prevention National Training and Technical Assistance Program
Closing Date
This program is designed to enhance the capacities of state, local, territorial, and tribal criminal justice systems to prevent, investigate, and respond to economic, cyber, and high-technology crimes by delivering training and technical assistance to diverse audiences.
FY 2021 Smart Probation: Innovations in Supervision Initiative
Closing Date
This program provides funding to state, local, and tribal community corrections agencies to improve supervision capacity to prevent recidivism and reduce crime in their jurisdictions.
FY 2021 Invited to Apply (June) – Continuation of BJA Previously Funded Awards
Closing Date
Through this opportunity, the Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) is inviting applicants who received an official request from BJA to apply for funding to continue work on a specific prior grant award.
FY 2021 Byrne Criminal Justice Innovation Program (BCJI)
Closing Date
This program will fund a strategic approach to crime reduction that leverages community knowledge and expertise to build public trust with law enforcement and make neighborhoods safer.
FY 2021 Comprehensive Opioid, Stimulant, and Substance Abuse Site-based Program
Closing Date
This program provides funding to develop, implement, or expand comprehensive programs in response to illicit opioids, stimulants, or other substances of abuse.
FY 2021 Justice and Mental Health Collaboration Program
Closing Date
This program provides support to criminal justice agencies to partner with mental health agencies and reduce crime and recidivism associated with people with mental illnesses and co-occurring mental illness and substance abuse issues.
FY 2021 National Sexual Assault Kit Initiative
Closing Date
This program serves to improve: (1) state and local jurisdictions’ capacities to respond to violent crime and (2) the functioning of the criminal justice system through the investigation and prosecution of cases resulting from sexual assault kit evidence and the collection of lawfully owed DNA.
FY 2021 Postconviction Testing of DNA Evidence
Closing Date
This program provides funding to assist in defraying the costs associated with postconviction case review, evidence location, and DNA testing in violent felony cases (as defined by state law) where the results of such testing might show actual innocence.
FY 2021 Project Safe Neighborhoods
Closing Date
This program is designed to create and foster safer communities through a sustained reduction in violent crime.
FY 2021 Project Safe Neighborhoods Training and Technical Assistance Program
Closing Date
This opportunity will establish a cooperative agreement with one training and technical assistance (TTA) provider to further develop the Project Safe Neighborhoods (PSN) National TTA Program to support and deliver TTA to PSN Teams, state and local law enforcement, other criminal justice professionals, and research partners.
FY 2021 Prosecuting Cold Cases Using DNA
Closing Date
This program increases the capacity of state and local prosecution offices to address violent crime cold cases.
FY 2021 Second Chance Act Pay for Success Initiative
Closing Date
This program provides funding for state, local, and tribal governments to enhance or implement performance-based and outcomes-based contracts with reentry, permanent supportive housing, or recovery housing providers to reduce recidivism and address the substance use disorders impacting formerly incarcerated people.
FY 2021 Second Chance Act: Adult Reentry Education, Employment, Treatment and Recovery Program
Closing Date
This program is designed to improve correctional educational and employment services for general inmate populations and to improve treatment services for offenders with substance use disorders.
FY 2021 Smart Suite Training and Technical Assistance Program
Closing Date
This program supports building partnerships between researchers and practitioners locally to improve outcomes, programs, and communities, working with a set of Smart Suite site-based programs.
FY 2021 Swift, Certain, and Fair Supervision Program: Applying the Principles Behind Project HOPE
Closing Date
This program provides funding to state, local, and tribal community supervision agencies to develop and test new or enhanced applications of the swift, certain, and fair principles of intervention to reduce recidivism and improve outcomes for people under community supervision.
FY 2021 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grants Program - Competitive
Closing Date
With this solicitation, BJA seeks proposals for competitive funding under the Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grants Program, which awards grants to states and units of local government to help improve forensic science and medical examiner/coroner services.
FY 2021 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grants Program - Formula
Closing Date
This solicitation is for State Administering Agencies to apply for formula funds available through the Coverdell Program.
FY 2021 Strengthening the Medical Examiner-Coroner System Program
Closing Date
Through this program, BJA will support grants in two focus areas by supporting forensic pathology fellowships and providing resources necessary for ME/C offices to achieve accreditation.
FY 2021 Justice Reinvestment Initiative: Reducing Crime by Improving Justice System Performance
Closing Date
This program provides funding to develop and implement innovative and research-based responses that address a range of criminal justice system problems. It employs the Justice Reinvestment approach, which recognizes that every justice agency has a role to play in preventing crime, ensuring a fair and efficient justice system, facilitating appropriate sentencing and treatment, and protecting community security.
FY 2021 Collaborative Approaches toward Preventing and Addressing Hate Crime — Demonstration Projects
Closing Date
This program supports efforts of state, local, and tribal law enforcement and prosecution agencies and their partners in developing comprehensive approaches to address a precipitous increase in hate crimes.
FY 2021 Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Program
Closing Date
This program provides funding to conduct outreach and offer training on hate crimes, as well as investigate and prosecute hate crimes.
FY 2021 Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Training and Technical Assistance Program
Closing Date
This program will support national training and technical assistance to build the capacities of state, local, and tribal law enforcement and prosecution agencies to work closely with victims and community-and school-based partners to conduct outreach on hate crimes, offer training on them, and to investigate and prosecute hate crimes.
FY 2021 The HOPE Institute: Applying the Principles of Swiftness, Certainty, and Fairness
Closing Date
This solicitation seeks a training and technical assistance (TTA) provider to provide information, resources, and TTA to state, local, and tribal community supervision agencies seeking to develop and test new or enhanced applications of the SCF principles using a data-driven, collaborative process that is informed by research and responsive to local circumstances.
FY 2021 Local Law Enforcement Crime Gun Intelligence Center Integration Initiative
Closing Date
This program assists state, local, and tribal law enforcement with enhancing their investigative and prosecutorial resources to improve their ability to hold violent gun offenders accountable and reduce violent crime.
FY 2021 Collaborative Crisis Response Training Program
Closing Date
This initiative seeks to implement transdisciplinary crisis response training to educate and prepare law enforcement and correctional officers so that they are equipped to appropriately interact with people who have behavioral health conditions or disabilities in the course of completing their job responsibilities.
FY 2021 Connect and Protect: Law Enforcement Behavioral Health Responses
Closing Date
This program supports law enforcement–behavioral health cross-system collaboration to improve public safety responses and outcomes for individuals with mental illness and co-occurring mental illness and substance abuse issues.
FY 2021 Justice Reinvestment Initiative: State-level Training and Technical Assistance Program
Closing Date
Through this solicitation, BJA seeks training and technical assistance providers and subject experts to help states apply the Justice Reinvestment Initiative approach — data-driven problem analysis and evidence-based solutions — to improve public safety.
FY 2021 National Ashanti Alert Network Training and Technical Assistance Program
Closing Date
This opportunity will build on the current training and technical assistance program that was started in fiscal year 2020 to assist in the development and implementation of the National Ashanti Alert Network.
FY 2021 Rural Violent Crime Reduction Initiative for Law Enforcement Agencies
Closing Date
This opportunity provides competitive grants and technical assistance to small law enforcement agencies in rural locations to address the unique challenges these departments face in combating violent crime.
FY 2021 Rural Violent Crime Reduction Initiative Training and Technical Assistance Provider
Closing Date
This program provides competitive microgrants and technical assistance to small law enforcement agencies in rural locations to address the unique challenges these departments face in combatting violent crime.
FY 2021 Smart Policing Initiative
Closing Date
The Smart Policing Initiative provides funding to enable police agencies to effectively use evidence-based practices, data, and technology.
FY 2021 Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant (JAG) Program - State Solicitation
Closing Date
The JAG Program is the primary provider of federal criminal justice funding to states and units of local government. This opportunity will provide funds to eligible states as described in the solicitation.
FY 2021 Invited to Apply - Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) Reallocation Funds
Closing Date
This opportunity will provide funding to supply information, support, and assistance to state, local, and tribal correctional agencies and facilities to prevent, detect, and respond to sexual abuse and sexual harassment and implement the National Prison Rape Elimination Act Standards.
FY 2021 Invited to Apply – Sex Offender and Registration Notification Act (SORNA) Reallocation Funds
Closing Date
Reallocation funds available through this opportunity are to be used directly to advance SORNA implementation.
FY 2021 Body-Worn Camera Policy and Implementation Program to Support Law Enforcement Agencies
Closing Date
This opportunity provides funding to law enforcement agencies seeking to purchase body-worn cameras (BWCs) to establish or expand comprehensive body-worn camera programs with a specific and demonstrated plan to implement this technology to maximize the benefits of BWCs.
FY 2021 Child-friendly Family Visiting Spaces in Jails and Prisons Program
Closing Date
This program will fund projects to construct, renovate, or upgrade child-friendly family visiting spaces in correctional facilities.
FY 2021 Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant (JAG) Program - Local Solicitation
Closing Date
The JAG Program is the primary provider of federal criminal justice funding to states and units of local government. BJA will award JAG Program funds to eligible units of local government as described in this opportunity.
FY 2021 National Initiatives: Law Enforcement and Prosecution
Closing Date
The purpose of this solicitation is to fund national in-scope training and technical assistance efforts to support law enforcement, prosecution, and analysis within key criminal justice operations.
FY 2021 Preventing School Violence: BJA’s STOP School Violence Program
Closing Date
This program is designed to improve K-12 school security by providing students and teachers with the tools they need to recognize, respond quickly to, and help prevent acts of violence and ensure a positive school climate.
Additional Opportunity
FY 2021 Patrick Leahy Bulletproof Vest Partnership (BVP)
Deadline: 6:00 p.m. ET, June 21, 2021
The purpose of the Patrick Leahy BVP Program is to reimburse states, counties, federally recognized tribes, cities, and local jurisdictions up to 50% of the cost of body armor vests purchased for law enforcement officers.