Craig Carpenito Announces $83M School Safety Funding, New Jersey 2023

NEWARK, N.J. – U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito today announced that more than $83 million in grants is available to help communities improve school security and protect students, faculty and staff from threats of violence.

"The funding opportunities we are announcing will help with research into the causes of school violence and the effectiveness of approaches to dealing with it," U.S. Attorney Carpenito said. "It will also provide resources that can be used to develop support services for children exposed to violence in their homes, schools, and communities, and for violent crime reduction strategies that focus on violent juvenile offenders."

"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. OJP’s 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 OJP funding opportunities, visit: https://www.ojp.gov/funding/explore/current-funding-opportunities

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