Past Funding

To Serve as the primary TTA Provider for approximately 35 Justice and Mental Health grantees to include providing TTA through teleconferencing, peer to peer consultations, web-based assistance and onsite assistance, which utilizes staff and consultants whose expertise and experience best fit the needs of the grantees. TTA will include assistance with the planning process and program design via a five-point planning and implementation guide and targeted support by a team of expert consultants. Continue TTA provision to active JMHCP grantees from former funding years.

The Justice and Mental Health Collaboration Program (JMHCP) supports innovative cross-system collaboration for individuals with mental illnesses or co-occurring mental health and substance abuse disorders who come into contact with the justice system. BJA is seeking applications that demonstrate a collaborative project between criminal justice and mental health partners from eligible applicants to plan, implement or expand a justice and mental health collaboration program. The program is authorized by the Mentally Ill Offender Treatment and Crime Reduction Act of 2004 (MIOTCRA) (Pub.L.

Those who commit crimes should be accountable to victims and their communities. The role of the justice system is to determine a fair and impartial resolution on behalf of society. However, legal financial obligations resulting from criminal justice involvement (including fines, fees, and costs) may undermine these very goals. The current landscape of legal financial obligations has come under heightened scrutiny in recent months and years, particularly in light of the findings of the U.S. Department of Justice Civil Rights Division investigation of the Ferguson Police Department.

In neighborhoods across the country, BCJI projects work to reduce crime and improve community safety as part of a comprehensive strategy to advance neighborhood revitalization goals. Through a broad ross-sector partnership team, including residents, BCJI sites target neighborhoods with hot spots of violent and serious crime and employ data-driven, cross-sector strategies to reduce crime and violence.

The purpose of the Enhanced Collaborative Model to Combat Human Trafficking Program is to support the development and enhancement of multidisciplinary human trafficking task forces that implement collaborative approaches to combat all forms of human trafficking "sex trafficking and labor trafficking" of foreign nationals and U.S. citizens (of all sexes and ages) within the United States.

This solicitation will focus on the delivery of national training, technical assistance, and programming on a variety of topics to law enforcement to improve and develop practice.

One pressing challenge facing our criminal justice system today is the recruitment and retention of qualified prosecutors and public defenders, who serve everyday to ensure that our communities are protected, the rule of law is upheld, and the rights of the citizenry are safeguarded. Both prosecutor and public defender offices consistently find it difficult to attract and retain talented attorneys. Driven by educational debt, attorneys interested in public interest law often forego opportunities to work in these offices in order to seek more lucrative private sector positions.

The Violence Reduction Network (VRN) is a comprehensive program created by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), Office of Justice Programs (OJP), Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA), to leverage existing DOJ resources to deliver strategic, intensive training and technical assistance (TTA) in an "all-hands" approach to reduce violence in some of the country's most violent cities. The program is site-specific and designed to complement existing local antiviolence efforts in participating sites by providing requested training and technical assistance resources in a systematic way.

The purpose of this solicitation (program) is to provide the nation's criminal justice policy-makers with objective, fact-based information, resources, and training and technical assistance (TTA), on timely and pressing criminal justice issues of potential concern to them. The intent is to support pathways for evidence-based best practices to reach policy-makers in various roles.

The National Crime Gun Intelligence Center Initiative is a limited competition grant program that will provide funding to local government entities that are experiencing precipitous increases in gun crime to implement a comprehensive and holistic model to reduce gun crime and illegal firearms within their jurisdiction. Successful applicants will implement a Crime Gun Intelligence Center (GCIC), an interagency collaboration focused on the immediate collection, management, and analysis of crime gun evidence, such as shell casings, in real time in an effort to identify shooters, and disrupt crimi

The FY2015 Body Worn Camera (BWC) Policy and Implementation Program will support the implementation, including the purchase, deployment, maintenance, data storage, and policy development of a body-worn camera program, and the necessary policies for law enforcement agencies. The program will play a critical role in the creation, implementation, and evaluation of problem solving approaches that incorporate BWCs into officer practice in selected jurisdictions.

The FY2016 Small Agency Body Worn Camera (BWC) Policy Implementation Program will support the implementation - including the purchase, deployment, maintenance, data storage, and policy development of a body-worn camera program, and the necessary policies for law enforcement agencies. The program will play a critical role in the creation, implementation, and evaluation of problem solving approaches that incorporate BWCs into officer practice in selected jurisdictions.

BJA has accelerated the adoption and integration of research and evidence in the field by growing the number of BJA programs that require robust researcher-practitioner partnerships. BJA is promoting researcher-practitioner partnerships in order to implement data-driven approaches to reduce crime, improve community safety, reduce recidivism, and prevent unnecessary confinement. BJA refers to the programs with these partnerships as its “Smart Suite”.

The purpose of this grant program is to provide funding to test untested sexual assault kits, prevent sexual assaults, and improve the criminal justice system's response to sexual assaults.

The HRPDMP grant program provides support to state prescription drug monitoring programs, tribal organizations seeking to engage with prescription monitoring activities, and state/county agencies seeking to address drug abuse and diversion challenges.

The Residential Substance Abuse Treatment (RSAT) for State Prisoners Program (42 U.S.C. § 3796ff et. seq.) assists states and local governments to develop and implement substance abuse treatment programs in state, local, and tribal correctional and detention facilities. Funds are also available to create and maintain community-based aftercare services for offenders. The goal of the RSAT Program is to break the cycle of drugs and violence by reducing the demand for, use, and trafficking of illegal drugs.

This program seeks to improve the quality and timeliness of forensic science and medical examiner services, including services provided by laboratories operated by states and units of local government.

In 2010, the Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) VALOR Officer Safety Initiative was created in response to the startling increase in felonious assaults that have taken the lives of many law enforcement officers. VALOR provides all levels of law enforcement with tools to help prevent violence against law enforcement officers and enhance officer resilience, wellness, and survivability. VALOR is a comprehensive effort that includes classroom and Web-based training, research, and resources for sworn state, local and tribal law enforcement officers.

The Justice Information Sharing Solutions Implementation Program is designed to promote innovation in the field to advance the state of the art in technology and information sharing that improves the criminal justice system.

BJA is accepting applications to establish new drug courts or enhance existing drug court services, coordination, and offender management and recovery support services. The purpose of the Adult Drug Court Discretionary Grant Program (42 U.S.C.

The FY2016 Police-Prosecutor Collaboration Initiative seeks to build upon analysis-driven, evidence-based law enforcement strategies by encouraging state, local, and tribal law enforcement and prosecutorial agencies to partner in an effort to create effective, economical, and innovative responses to precipitous increases in crime within their jurisdictions.

This FY 2015 Smart Policing Initiative (SPI) grant program seeks to build upon analysis-driven, evidence-based policing by encouraging state, local, and tribal law enforcement agencies to develop effective, economical, and innovative responses to crime within their jurisdictions.

The Community-Based Reentry Program Utilizing Mentors will provide $1, 000, 0000 awards for a three year grant period to private non-profits to provide comprehensive, community-based reentry services to formerly incarcerated individuals with moderate to high risk of recidivating. These reentry programs will include a mentoring component.

The purpose of this FY 2016 competitive grant announcement is to select one provider to deliver, nationwide, a wide range of training and technical assistance (TTA) services to agencies participating in the Smart Policing Initiative (SPI). These services include, but are not limited to, training sessions and educational sessions developed and conducted by relevant subject matter experts, onsite or remote guidance on problem analysis, solution development, data analysis, policing theory, evaluation methodology, and other matters relevant to the purposes of the SPI program.