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This page provides access to past funding opportunities from the Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA). Use the search filters below to help you find specific solicitations. From the results, select a solicitation title to view details about the opportunity as well as any resulting awards.

If you are looking for current opportunities available from BJA, see the Available Funding page.

FY24 Veterans Treatment Court Discretionary Grant Program

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Closing Date
With this solicitation, BJA seeks to provide financial and technical assistance to plan, implement, and enhance the operations of veterans treatment courts (VTC), including service coordination, participant service and supervision coordination, fidelity to the VTC model, and recovery support services.

FY24 STOP School Violence Program Competitive Solicitation

Date Posted
Closing Date
This program is designed to improve school safety by providing students, teachers, and staff with the tools they need to recognize, respond quickly to, and prevent acts of violence.

FY24 Formula DNA Capacity Enhancement for Backlog Reduction (CEBR) Program

Date Posted
Closing Date
The goal of this opportunity is to assist eligible states and units of local government with existing crime laboratories that conduct DNA analysis to process, and/or to increase the capacity to process, more DNA samples for entry into the Combined DNA Index System by publicly funded forensic DNA and DNA database laboratories.

FY24 Second Chance Act Smart Supervision Program

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Closing Date
This program provides grants to improve the capacity and effectiveness of probation and parole agencies to increase supervision success rates by more effectively addressing individuals’ risk and needs and reducing recidivism.

FY24 Collaborative Crisis Response and Intervention Training Program

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Closing Date
This program supports law enforcement, correctional officers, probation and parole, and sheriff’s departments in effectively partnering with mental health, substance use, community service professionals and agencies to promote public safety and make sure that appropriate responses are provided to individuals in crisis who have behavioral health conditions, intellectual disabilities, developmental disabilities, physical disabilities, and/or traumatic brain injuries.

FY24 Upholding the Rule of Law and Preventing Wrongful Convictions Program

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Closing Date
This program supports efforts by both wrongful conviction review entities that represent individuals with postconviction claims of innocence to review individual cases, and conviction integrity or review units to enhance criminal justice system integrity.

FY24 Justice and Mental Health Collaboration Program

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Closing Date
This opportunity focuses on pretrial, prosecution, courts, probation/parole, and addressing the needs directly related to the criminal activity of adults with mental health conditions, living in homelessness or marginalized communities with minimal access to treatment, needing wrap around services, in the criminal justice system and leaving incarceration.

FY24 Adult Treatment Court Program

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Closing Date
With this solicitation, BJA seeks to provide financial and technical assistance to states, state courts, local courts, units of local government, and federally recognized Indian tribal governments to plan, implement, and enhance the operations of adult treatment courts.

FY24 Connect and Protect: Law Enforcement Behavioral Health Response Program

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Closing Date
This program supports law enforcement–behavioral health cross-system collaboration to improve public health and public safety by improving responses to and outcomes for individuals with mental health disorders or co-occurring mental health and substance use disorders.

FY24 Smart Prosecution – Innovative Prosecution Solutions

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Closing Date
The goal of this program is for prosecutorial agencies to incorporate innovative or evidence-based prosecution strategies as a fundamental component of their efforts to reduce crime and ensure public safety.

FY24 Postconviction Testing of DNA Evidence

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Closing Date
This program assists 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.

FY24 Community Supervision Strategies

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Closing Date
This grant program seeks to enhance community supervision agencies’ capacity to help reduce recidivism among, and improve outcomes for, people under supervision by using the swift, certain, and/or fair principles of intervention.