OJJDP FY24 Enhancing School Capacity To Address Youth Violence

With this solicitation, OJJDP seeks to support targeted efforts to address youth violence through implementing evidence-based prevention and intervention efforts in a school-based setting (K–12th grade only). The goals of the program are to (1) reduce the incidence of school violence through improved school safety and climate and (2) prevent youth violence, delinquency, and victimization in the targeted community.

Eligibility

• State governments 
• City or township governments 
• Public- and state-controlled institutions of higher education 
• County governments 
• Native American Tribal organizations (other than federally recognized Tribal governments) 
• Native American Tribal governments (federally recognized) 
• Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education 
• Nonprofits that do not have 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 
• Independent school districts 
• Other - units of local government (such as towns, boroughs, parishes, villages, or other general purpose political subdivisions of a state)