COLUMBIA, South Carolina --- Acting U.S. Attorney A. Lance
Crick of South Carolina, today announced that more than $83 million in
Department of Justice 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 Department of Justice 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 OJP, 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.
A number of funding opportunities for school safety are
currently open, with another opening in the near future:
Research and Evaluation on School Safety
Total Available $5 million Deadline
4/13/2020
STOP Act School Violence Program (FY20)
Total Available $71.4 million Deadline
4/13/2020
Strategies to Support Children Exposed to Violence
Total Available $7 million Deadline
4/27/2020
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