BJA FY 19 STOP School Violence Training and Technical Assistance Program | BJA 2019 16252

Opportunity Information: Apply for BJA 2019 16252

The BJA FY 19 STOP School Violence Training and Technical Assistance (TTA) Program is a discretionary Department of Justice grant run by the Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) under the authority of the STOP School Violence Act of 2018. Rather than primarily funding direct school safety projects in individual communities, this particular solicitation is aimed at selecting an organization to act on BJA's behalf as a national-level training and technical assistance provider. The core purpose is to help prevent and reduce school violence by strengthening the capacity of jurisdictions and organizations that receive STOP School Violence funding, and by building a broader, reusable knowledge base and technical assistance model that other communities can apply to improve school safety.

The opportunity focuses on delivering TTA and related support to awardees in multiple connected STOP School Violence funding streams, specifically the BJA STOP Prevention Training and Response to Mental Health Crisis Program, the BJA STOP Technology and Threat Assessment Solutions for Safer Schools Program, and the COPS Office STOP School Violence Prevention Program. In practice, that means the selected TTA provider would be expected to guide and assist grantees working on school violence prevention approaches that can include prevention training, responses to mental health crises, technology improvements, and threat assessment strategies. A central theme is ensuring that what grantees learn through implementation gets captured, organized, and translated into practical guidance, so the field as a whole benefits, not just the individual sites receiving awards.

Key administrative details include the funding opportunity title "BJA FY 19 STOP School Violence Training and Technical Assistance Program" and funding opportunity number BJA 2019 16252. It is offered as a grant (funding instrument type: Grant) and categorized as discretionary funding. The CFDA number listed is 16.839, and the program aligns with broad activity categories that include disaster prevention and relief, education, employment and training, humanities/cultural affairs, information and statistics, and science and technology/research and development, reflecting the multidisciplinary nature of school safety work and the blend of policy, training, data, and technical systems that can be involved.

Eligibility is relatively broad for an assistance-provider style award. Eligible applicants include public and state-controlled institutions of higher education, private institutions of higher education, federally recognized Native American tribal governments, nonprofits with 501(c)(3) status (other than institutions of higher education), and for-profit organizations other than small businesses. The agency is the U.S. Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Assistance. The solicitation was created on April 16, 2019, with an original closing date of June 18, 2019. The listed award ceiling is $6,000,000, and the opportunity anticipates 65 awards, indicating that the solicitation is part of a larger STOP School Violence grant ecosystem with multiple awards across related program components, even though this specific description emphasizes the TTA-provider function.

Overall, the grant is best understood as an effort to professionalize and scale support for STOP School Violence grantees by funding an entity capable of delivering structured training and technical assistance, capturing lessons learned across sites, and developing a repeatable technical assistance delivery model. The intended end result is stronger implementation across funded projects and a clearer, evidence-informed set of resources that communities can use when planning and improving school safety initiatives.

• The Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Assistance in the disaster prevention and relief, education, employment, labor and training, humanities (see cultural affairs in cfda), information and statistics, science and technology and other research and development sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "BJA FY 19 STOP School Violence Training and Technical Assistance Program" and is now available to receive applicants.
• Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 16.839.
• This funding opportunity was created on Apr 16, 2019.
• Applicants must submit their applications by Jun 18, 2019. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
• Each selected applicant is eligible to receive up to $6,000,000.00 in funding.
• The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 65 candidate(s).
• Eligible applicants include: Public and State controlled institutions of higher education, Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized), Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education, Private institutions of higher education, For profit organizations other than small businesses.

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