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BJA FY 2026 Students, Teachers, and Officers Preventing (STOP) School Violence Program

Federal funding opportunity O-BJA-2026-172709 from Bureau of Justice Assistance (Department of Justice).

Apply on Grants.gov →Application closes October 30, 2026

Posted
September 21, 2026
Closes
October 30, 2026
Award ceiling
$2,000,000
Cost sharing
No
Instrument
Grant
Assistance listing
16.839
Category
Law, Justice and Legal Services

Program funding history

Awards made under Assistance Listing 16.839 across FY2024–FY2026, from public federal spending records.

FY2024 obligated
$35.1M
FY2025 obligated
$78.3M
FY2026 (to date) obligated
−$7.6M
Awards in window
466

A negative year is a net de-obligation: downward adjustments to earlier awards exceeded new obligations in that year.

Top recipients: The Institute for Intergovernmental Research, Inc., George Mason University, The Regents of the University of Colorado, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Newark Community Street Team Inc

Source: USAspending.gov · refreshed September 2026 · Program page: awards, recipients and the opportunities under this listing →

Synopsis

This is a notice of funding opportunity (NOFO) for the FY26 Students, Teachers, and Officers Prevention (STOP) School Violence Program. This opportunity supports programs to prevent and reduce school violence by implementing training, developing school threat assessment teams and/or intervention teams to identify violence risks, introducing technologies like anonymous reporting tools, or applying other school safety strategies that assist in preventing violence. The Student, Teachers, and Officers Preventing School Violence Act of 2018 (STOP School Violence Act) describes the following allowable uses of funding for school safety projects: • Training to prevent student violence against others and self, including training for local law enforcement officers, school personnel, and students. • The development and operation of technology solutions such as anonymous reporting systems for threats of school violence, including mobile telephone applications, hotlines, and internet websites. • The development and deployment of: o School threat assessment and intervention teams that include coordination with law enforcement agencies and school personnel or o Specialized training for school officials in responding to mental health crises. BJA’s STOP School Violence Program improves school safety and security by providing students and teachers with the tools they need to recognize, respond quickly to, and help prevent acts of violence. Activities that go beyond the allowable uses of funding as described above will not be funded.

Who can apply

Other entities: Private K–12 schools, including private charter schools, should apply as “nonprofits.”; Public charter schools should apply as “independent school districts.”; Other Units of Local Government: For the purposes of this NOFO, other units of local government include towns, boroughs, parishes, villages, or other general purpose political subdivisions of a state.

How to apply

Applications go through the official government listing. Grants Radar links you straight to the source — applying is free.

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Agency contact: Bureau of Justice Assistance · [email protected] · 202-514-9354

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