Bill Powell Announces $83M School Safety Grant, West Virginia 2020

WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA – U.S. Attorney Bill Powell today announced that more than $83 million in grants is available to help communities improve school security and protect students, teachers, and faculty from threats of violence.

"Schools should be a safe haven for students, a place to learn and grow. No child, parent, or educator should be afraid of anything that happens inside school walls. We must do everything we can to prevent violence at our schools. I hope that our educational leaders apply for funding to make their schools safer places to learn," said Powell.

"School violence is no longer an abstract threat but has become a tragic reality in too many of America’s communities. Moving to meet this challenge is among the Administration’s top domestic priorities," said Katharine T. Sullivan, Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Justice Programs. "The Office of Justice Programs is making historic amounts of grant funding available to ensure that our communities have access to innovative and diverse solutions."

The funding is available through the Office of Justice Programs, the federal government’s leading source of public safety funding and crime victim assistance in state, local, and tribal jurisdictions. The Office of Justice Programs’ programs support a wide array of activities and services, including programs designed to tighten school security and improve the reporting of threats.

A number of funding opportunities for school safety are currently open, with another opening in the near future:

• Research and Evaluation on School Safety – https://nij.ojp.gov/funding/opportunities/nij-2020-17308, Total Available $5 million, Deadline 4/13/2020

• STOP Act School Violence Program (FY20) – https://nij.ojp.gov/funding/opportunities/nij-2020-17308, Total Available $71.4 million, Deadline 4/13/2020

• Strategies to Support Children Exposed to Violence – https://ojjdp.ojp.gov/funding/opportunities/ojjdp-2020-17926, Total Available $7 million, Deadline 4/27/2020

For more information regarding all Office of Justice Programs funding opportunities, visit https://www.ojp.gov/funding/explore/current-funding-opportunities.

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