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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.

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 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 Community Courts Initiative

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This program will support efforts by state, local, and federally recognized American Indian tribal governments to establish and enhance community courts in their jurisdictions.

FY 2022 BJA Visiting Fellows Program

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Through this opportunity, BJA invests in future and current leaders in the field to advance priority national policy issues and offer cross-developmental opportunities for Department of Justice staff and criminal justice practitioners and researchers.

FY 2022 Department of Justice Jails and Justice Support Center

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This opportunity will establish a center to assist jails in creating and sustaining safe, humane, and effective environments for people who are detained and incarcerated in them and for people who work in and visit them.

FY 2022 Second Chance Act Pay for Success Initiative

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Through this opportunity, BJA is seeking applications for funding 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 2022 Harold Rogers Prescription Drug Monitoring Program

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This program assists state, local, and tribal efforts to break the cycle of substance abuse and misuse by reducing the demand for, use, and illegal trafficking of controlled substances.

FY 2022 Comprehensive Opioid, Stimulant, and Substance Abuse Site-based Program

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This program provides resources to support state, local, tribal, and territorial efforts to respond to illicit substance use and misuse; reduce overdose deaths; promote public safety; and support access to prevention, harm-reduction, treatment, and recovery services in the community and justice system.

FY 2022 Emmett Till Cold Case Investigations and Prosecution Program

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This program provides funding to state, local, and tribal law enforcement and prosecution agencies to support activities and expenses associated with the investigation and prosecution of cold case murders involving civil rights violations, as authorized by the Emmett Till Unsolved Civil Rights Crimes Reauthorization Act of 2016.

FY 2022 Improving Reentry Education and Employment Outcomes

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The purpose of this solicitation is to enhance corrections systems’ ability to implement and expand education and employment programs that serve individuals during incarceration and throughout their period of reentry into the community.

FY 2022 Law Enforcement National Initiatives to Improve Public Safety, Enhance Agency Operations via Training, Recruitment and Retention and Building Community Trust

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This opportunity will provide funding to create and implement training and technical assistance programs for criminal justice stakeholders that support local law enforcement and prosecutorial agencies in the development of violence reduction strategies, training of law enforcement officers, and implementation of ethical technological strategies that build digital trust and promote community engagement.