U.S. Attorney D. Michael Dunavant, Funding for School Safety, Tennessee 2020

MEMPHIS, TN – U.S. Attorney D. Michael Dunavant of the Western District of Tennessee 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.

“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 front and center in the fight to meet this challenge. OJP 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.

U.S. Attorney D. Michael Dunavant said: “Promoting school safety and preventing targeted violence against our school faculty, administrators and students is a top priority, and demands urgent actions to strengthen school security and provide accurate assessment, identification, and quick response to potential threats. These grant resources from the Office of Justice Programs will allow our state and local partners to focus on the emerging area of school safety in a comprehensive way.”

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

The Research and Evaluation on School Safety grant, with a total available of $5 million, has a deadline of April 13, 2020.

The STOP Act School Violence Program (FY20), with a total available of $71.4 million, also has a deadline of April 13, 2020.

The Strategies to Support Children Exposed to Violence grant, with a total available of $7 million, has a deadline of April 27, 2020.

For more information regarding all OJP funding opportunities, visit https://www.ojp.gov/funding/explore/current-funding-opportunities.

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