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Prepare early — any time during the year — to ensure your registration and users are up to date in the systems involved in the application process. Review the DOJ Grant Application Submission Checklist to identify which actions you can take now and what to expect when you start an application.
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FY24 Residential Substance Abuse Treatment for State Prisoners Program Formula Grant Solicitation
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With this solicitation, BJA seeks to increase access to treatment to individuals with substance use or co-occurring substance use and mental health disorders during detention or incarceration and to improve continuity of care during and after reentry by delivering community-based treatment and other broad-based aftercare services.
FY24 Second Chance Act Improving Reentry Education and Employment Outcomes
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With this solicitation, BJA seeks to fund reentry services and programs focused on strengthening education and employment outcomes for individuals returning to their communities after a period of incarceration.
FY24 Body-Worn Camera Policy and Implementation Program to Support Law Enforcement Agencies
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With this solicitation, BJA seeks to support the purchase and lease of body-worn cameras by publicly funded law enforcement and corrections agencies.
FY24 Comprehensive Opioid, Stimulant and Substance Use Program (COSSUP) Overdose Fatality Review (OFR) Training and Technical Assistance (TTA)
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With this solicitation, BJA seeks a training and technical assistance provider to help jurisdictions prevent and reduce overdose deaths as part of the Comprehensive Opioid, Stimulant, and Substance Use Program.
FY24 Economic, High-Technology, White Collar, and Internet Crime Prevention National Training and Technical Assistance Program
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With this solicitation, BJA seeks to enhance the capacities of state, local, territorial, and tribal criminal justice systems to prevent, investigate, and respond to economic, high-technology, white collar, and internet crimes by delivering training and technical assistance to diverse stakeholders.
FY24 Local Law Enforcement Crime Gun Intelligence Center Integration Initiative
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With this solicitation, BJA seeks to support state, local, and tribal jurisdictions as they develop or expand their ability to utilize crime gun intelligence by equipping them with the tools and personnel they need.
FY24 Missing and Unidentified Human Remains (MUHR) Program
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This program provides funding to eligible entities to expand upon the reporting, transportation, processing, and identification of missing persons and unidentified human remains cases in their jurisdictions, including migrants.
FY24 National Ashanti Alert Network Training and Technical Assistance Program
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This solicitation will build on the current training and technical assistance support for the National Ashanti Alert Program and will assist BJA in completing the elements set forth in the Ashanti Alert Act for the development, implementation, and maintenance of this national alert system to assist with the reporting and location of missing adults over the age of 17.
FY24 National Public Safety Partnership—Capacity Building Grant Limited Competition Grant Solicitation
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This program provides funding for state and local prosecutors and local law enforcement agencies who have participated in the National Public Safety Partnership to secure resources that will help reduce crime and increase public safety and trust in the criminal justice system.
FY24 Training and Technical Assistance for Justice-Focused Community-Based Organizations
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This program provides for the development, operation, and management of a training and technical assistance program for justice-focused community-based organizations directly serving communities disproportionately impacted by crime, violence, and victimization.
FY24 Justice Reinvestment Initiative: State-level Training and Technical Assistance
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With this solicitation, BJA seeks to support training and technical assistance providers assisting states and jurisdictions to use the Justice Reinvestment Initiative to enhance the fairness, effectiveness, and efficiency of their criminal justice system.
FY24 Smart Reentry: Housing Demonstration Program
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With this solicitation, BJA seeks to fund state, local, and tribal governments to enhance or implement evidence-based activities or services to improve reentry and reduce recidivism by expanding and/or increasing access to housing for people who are currently or formerly involved in the criminal justice system.
FY24 The Kevin and Avonte Program: Reducing Injury and Death of Missing Individuals with Dementia and Developmental Disabilities
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With this solicitation, BJA seeks to reduce the number of deaths and injuries of individuals with forms of dementia (such as Alzheimer’s disease) or developmental disabilities (such as autism) who, due to their condition, wander from safe environments.
FY24 Byrne State Crisis Intervention Program Formula Solicitation
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This program provides funding for the creation and/or implementation of extreme risk protection order programs, state crisis intervention court proceedings, and related programs/initiatives.
FY24 John R. Justice (JRJ) Formula Grant Program
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This program provides funding to state agencies designated by the governor to improve the recruitment and retention of local, state, and federal public defenders and local and state prosecutors.
FY24 State Criminal Alien Assistance Program
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With this solicitation, BJA seeks to make payments under the statutorily required State Criminal Alien Assistance Program to eligible states and units of local government that incur certain types of costs due to incarceration of “undocumented criminal aliens” during the July 1, 2022, through June 30, 2023, reporting period.
FY24 Visiting Fellows Program
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With this opportunity, BJA seeks to invest in current and future leaders in the criminal justice field to advance priority national policy issues and offer cross-developmental opportunities for Department of Justice staff and criminal justice practitioners and researchers.
FY24 Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Program
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This program is designed to assist jurisdictions in addressing hate crimes and to assist victims and communities that are facing an increase in hate crimes.
FY24 National Sexual Assault Kit Initiative
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With this solicitation, BJA seeks to provide jurisdictions with resources to address unsubmitted sexual assault kits, improve investigations and prosecutions, provide sites with resources to collect DNA samples from qualifying individuals, and more.
FY24 Office of Justice Programs Community Based Violence Intervention and Prevention Initiative Training and Technical Assistance Program
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With this solicitation, BJA, in coordination with the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention and the Office of Victims of Crime, seeks applications to provide a range of training and technical assistance to grantees and the field at large under the Community Based Violence Intervention and Prevention Initiative.
FY24 National Initiatives: Law Enforcement Training and Technical Assistance
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With this solicitation, BJA seeks to fund four national training and technical assistance programs to support law enforcement and criminal justice stakeholders.
FY24 Tribal Civil and Criminal Legal Assistance Training and Technical Assistance Solicitation
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With this solicitation, BJA seeks applications for training and technical assistance funding to strengthen and improve the representation of indigent defendants in criminal and indigent respondents in civil cause of action under jurisdiction of Indian tribes.
FY24 Field Initiated: Encouraging Innovation
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With this solicitation, BJA seeks seeks to support new and innovative strategies for preventing and reducing crime, improving community safety, and strengthening criminal justice system outcomes.
FY24 Harold Rogers Prescription Drug Monitoring Program (PDMP)
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With this solicitation, BJA seeks to enhance the capacity of regulatory and law enforcement agencies and public health officials to collect and analyze controlled substance prescription data and other scheduled chemical products through a centralized database administered by an authorized agency.
FY24 Project Safe Neighborhoods Formula Grant Program
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The Project Safe Neighborhoods Program brings together federal, state, local, tribal, and territorial law enforcement officials, prosecutors, community-based partners, and other stakeholders to identify the most pressing violent crime problems in a community and develop comprehensive solutions to address them.
FY24 Public Safety Officers’ Benefits (PSOB) National Law Enforcement Survivor Support and National Firefighter and First Responder Survivor Support Programs Competitive Grant Solicitation
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With this solicitation, BJA seeks to support the families of fallen and catastrophically injured law enforcement officers, firefighters, and other first responders by providing assistance with filing applications for federal benefits for line-of-duty deaths and catastrophic injuries.