Description
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.
FY 2022 Invited to Apply - Continuation of BJA Previously Funded Awards - Courts, Communities and Strategic Partnerships
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Through this opportunity, the Bureau of Justice Assistance seeks applications for funding to continue work on a specific prior grant award.
FY 2022 Improving Adult and Juvenile Crisis Stabilization and Community Reentry Program
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This program will provide funding to enhance or implement clinical services and other evidence-based responses to improve reentry, reduce recidivism, and address the treatment and recovery needs of people with mental health, substance use, or co-occurring disorders who are currently involved in the criminal justice system or were formerly involved.
FY 2022 Invited to Apply - Sex Offender and Registration Notification Act (SORNA) Reallocation Program
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This opportunity is only available to those who received an invitation to apply.
FY 2022 Invited to Apply - Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) Reallocation Funds Program
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This opportunity is only available to those who received an invitation to apply.
FY 2022 Reimagining Justice: Testing a New Model of Community Safety
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This opportunity will fund the development and testing of a new or innovative approach to improving community safety and trust that is an alternative to traditional enforcement mechanisms for neighborhoods experiencing high rates of less serious and low-level criminal offenses.
FY 2022 Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant Program – State Solicitation
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Through this opportunity, BJA will award JAG Program funds to eligible states as described in the solicitation.
FY 2022 Invited to Apply - Continuation of BJA Previously Funded Awards
Date Posted
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Through this opportunity, the Bureau of Justice Assistance seeks applications for funding to continue work on a specific prior grant award. Eligible applicants will have received invitation letters with instructions on how to apply to this solicitation.
FY 2022 Project Safe Neighborhoods
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The Project Safe Neighborhoods (PSN) Grant Program awards funds to certified fiscal agents that work with PSN Teams in federal judicial districts to support those districts’ PSN strategies.
FY 2022 John R. Justice (JRJ) Formula Grant Program
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This program provides funding for student loan repayment assistance for local, state, and federal public defenders and local and state prosecutors who commit to extended service in those roles.
FY 2022 Invited to Apply - Administrative Funding Adjustments to BJA Previously Funded Awards 4
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Through this opportunity, the Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) invites applicants who received an official request from BJA to apply for funding to continue work on a specific prior grant award.
FY 2022 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grants Program - Formula
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This program seeks to improve forensic science and medical examiner/coroner services, including services provided by laboratories operated by states and units of local government. This solicitation is only for the formula funds available under the program.
FY 2022 Community-based Approaches to Prevent and Address Hate Crimes
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This program provides funding to support comprehensive community-based approaches to addressing hate crimes that promote community awareness and preparedness, increase victim reporting, and improve responses to hate crimes.
FY 2022 Drug Data Research Center to Combat the Opioid Crisis
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This program provides funding to create a regional drug data research center that promotes the collection, analysis, and dissemination of information critical in response to the overdose crisis and impacts of opioids, stimulants, and other substances.
FY 2022 DNA Capacity Enhancement for Backlog Reduction (CEBR) Program (Formula)
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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.
FY 2022 Invited to Apply - Continuation of BJA Previously Funded Awards (RISS ONLY)
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Through this opportunity, the Bureau of Justice Assistance seeks applications for funding to continue work on a specific prior grant award. Eligible applicants will have received invitation letters with instructions on how to apply to this solicitation.
FY 2022 Field Initiated: Encouraging Innovation
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This program will provide funding to prevent and reduce crime and enhance the criminal justice system through innovative approaches that accelerate justice by identifying, defining, and responding to emerging or chronic crime problems and systemic issues using innovative approaches.
FY 2022 Justice Information Sharing Training and Technical Assistance Program
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This opportunity provides funding to manage the Criminal Intelligence Systems Operating Policies (28 CFR Part 23) Training and Technical Assistance Program available to state, local, tribal, and territorial criminal justice agencies.
FY 2022 Crime Gun Intelligence Training and Education
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This opportunity will provide funding to institutions of higher education to develop and implement a hands-on course that focuses on firearms and toolmark identification as an applied forensic science discipline.
FY 2022 Strengthening the Medical Examiner-Coroner System Program
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The purpose of this opportunity is to strengthen the medical examiner-coroner system in the United States.
FY 2022 Preventing School Violence: BJA's STOP School Violence Program
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This program supports and assists county, local, territorial, and tribal jurisdictions in improving efforts to reduce violent crime in and around schools.
FY 2022 Justice Counts Implementation Program
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This program helps state governments improve their capacity to set goals for their criminal justice systems, measure whether they are achieving them, and use results to make data-driven policy decisions and allocate scarce resources effectively.
FY 2022 Postconviction Testing of DNA Evidence
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This opportunity will provide 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 2022 Prosecuting Cold Cases Using DNA
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This program provides funding to increase the capacity of state and local prosecution offices to address/close violent crime cold cases.
FY 2022 Forensics Training and Technical Assistance Program
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This program will provide support to the forensic science grant programs administered by the Bureau of Justice Assistance (an estimated 500-plus grantees).
FY 2022 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grants Program - Competitive
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This program seeks to improve forensic science and medical examiner/coroner services, including services provided by laboratories operated by states and units of local government. This solicitation is only for the competitive funds available under the program.