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The goal of the STOP School Violence Program is to improve school security by providing students and teachers with the tools they need to recognize, respond quickly to, and help prevent acts of violence. Objective for Training: Train school personnel and educate students on preventing student violence against others and themselves. This can also include any program shown to improve school climate, including anti-bullying training, as well as specialized training for school officials to respond to mental health crises. Objective for school threat assessment and crisis intervention teams: To increase school safety by developing and implementing threat assessment and/or intervention teams to identify school violence risks and implement strategies to mitigate those risks. Objective for technology solutions: To implement a technology solution, such as an anonymous reporting technology that can be implemented as a smartphone APP, a hotline, or a website in the applicant’s geographic area designed to provide a way for students, teachers, faculty, and community members to anonymously identify school violence threats, or other technology solutions that will improve school safety. Performance Measure 1: Number of school staff trained; and, Performance Measure 2: Number of technology solutions implemented (including anonymous reporting systems [apps] and/or emergency personnel communication systems, etc.)
This chart shows obligations for the program by fiscal year. All data for this chart was provided by the
administering agency and sourced from SAM.gov, USASpending.gov, and Treasury.gov.
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In FY18 BJA received 240 applications. Of those, 213 were sent to peer review. BJA granted 183 awards for a total of $46,871,053. The breakdown of awards is as follows:
• BJA STOP School Violence Prevention and Mental Health Training Program – 85 awards for $27,786,726
• BJA STOP School Violence Threat Assessment and Technology Reporting Program – 68 awards for $19,085,027.
This year, OJP’s Bureau of Justice Assistance awarded nearly $53 million via three separate funding opportunities required through the Act, while COPS awarded nearly $32.5 million through its School Violence Prevention Program.
BJA’s STOP School Violence Technology and Threat Assessment Solutions for Safer Schools Program ($29.5 million): BJA awarded 68 local governments, federally recognized Indian tribes and public agencies nearly $29.5 million to directly help schools by providing school administrators, staff, students and first responders with the ability to use threat assessments, crisis intervention teams, and anonymous reporting technology. The funds are also used to create or enhance State School Safety Centers.
Please visit https://www.ojp.gov/sites/g/files/xyckuh241/files/media/document/stop-school-violence-awards-fs.pdf
BJA award 78 annual awards, totaling almost $74 million intended to support training and education for school personnel and students on preventing violence against others and themselves, including anti-bullying training and specialized training for school officials to respond to mental health crises. Funds also help develop and implement multidisciplinary threat assessment or intervention teams and design technology solutions such as anonymous reporting systems, hotlines and websites.
Please visit https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-awards-nearly-444-million-support-violence-intervention-efforts
From 2018 – 2023 BJA has made 620 STOP awards to states, local agencies, non-profits and local school districts. Since 2018, building and campus security, coordination with first responders, school climate interventions, and mental health services are the most popular proposed school safety strategies. Comparing fiscal years, coordination with first responders has varied over time whereas use of school safety assessments has remained steady each year. School climate and mental health are top strategies trending upward in popularity for BJA STOP grantees. Starting in FY 2022, data was gathered on three additional strategies: community violence interventions, cybersecurity/cyber safety, and safe transitions to and from school.
In 2019 BJA began funding the National Center for School Safety (NCSS) in 2019 to provide training and technical assistance (TTA) to STOP grantees. The focus of the NCSS technical assistance is to generate buy-in with school leadership, staff, students, and families, assisting grantees with choosing evidence-informed practices and resource, forming strong partnerships and encouraging grantees to think about program sustainability early. NCSS training focus includes student and staff mental health and resilience, school climate and upstream prevention strategies, engaging youth in school safety projects, planning for sustainability including thinking about the best way to use various funding resources and balancing the need for physical security with wanting schools to feel like welcoming spaces for students and communities.
In 2022, BJA began funding two specialized TTA providers, one to provide specialized training to Law Enforcement working with schools and school aged populations, and one provider to assist schools and school districts to incorporate Community Violence Intervention (CVI) strategies in school safety.
Single Audit Applies (2 CFR Part 200 Subpart F):
For additional information on single audit requirements for this program, review the current Compliance Supplement.
OMB is working with the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) and agency offices of inspectors general to include links to relevant oversight reports. This section will be updated once this information is made available.
