STOP School Violence Program (BJA) - Students, Teachers, and Officers Preventing School Violence
The BJA arm of STOP funds evidence-based prevention: threat assessment teams, anonymous reporting, and the coordination with law enforcement that a shared, responder-ready map supports. Note the BJA arm cannot fund target-hardening equipment such as cameras, locks, or fencing, that hardware sits with COPS SVPP. The two arms are complementary.
What the program funds, and who can apply
Evidence-based school violence prevention: training school personnel and students to prevent violence; anonymous threat-reporting systems/apps and technology; school threat assessment and intervention teams to identify violence risks; mental health crisis response training; coordination with law enforcement. NOTE: BJA STOP funds CANNOT be used for target-hardening equipment (cameras, security systems, fencing, locks, etc.) or to hire armed security/school resource officers - that side is funded by COPS SVPP. The two STOP arms are complementary.
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The BJA arm of STOP funds evidence-based prevention: threat assessment teams, anonymous reporting, and the coordination with law enforcement that a shared, responder-ready map supports. Note the BJA arm cannot fund target-hardening equipment such as cameras, locks, or fencing, that hardware sits with COPS SVPP. The two arms are complementary.
FY25, per the primary Grants.gov record: units of local government; private K-12 schools, including private charter schools; public charter schools. Note this is narrower than the FY24-and-earlier eligibility previously published here. Confirm eligibility against the solicitation for whichever cycle you are applying to.
No open deadline. FY25 (closed): Grants.gov close date October 31, 2025. Annual competitive cycle; the FY25 solicitation posted in mid-September. UNVERIFIED: any FY26 or FY27 solicitation date. No agency source states an expected next cycle, so do not treat the FY25 posting month as a forecast. No window is open right now, so confirm the next cycle at the official program source before planning around it.
Straight from the official program
Every figure on this page comes from the official program source below, last verified 2026-09-01. Programs, amounts, and deadlines change, so confirm the current rule at the source before you apply. This page is informational and not legal or grant-writing advice. How we verify.
- Bureau of Justice Assistance - Available Funding (current open opportunities listing) verified 2026-09-01
- Grants.gov synopsis for NOFO O-BJA-2025-172466, BJA FY25 STOP School Violence Program verified 2026-09-01
What we could not confirm on a primary source
- Total program funding for FY25 and the Category 1 / Category 2 award split. The previously published ~$83,000,000 total is not supported by the primary Grants.gov record.
- The FY25 JustGrants deadline previously published as November 3, 2025. Only the Grants.gov close date of October 31, 2025 is confirmed on a primary source.
- Assistance Listing 16.839 was not re-confirmed from the FY25 solicitation text in this pass.
- Any FY26 or FY27 solicitation date.
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