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Research and Evaluation on Youth Justice Topics (Funding Opportunity)

Posted | Mar 27 2024

Grants.gov Deadline: May 21, 2024, 11:59 pm ET
JustGrants Deadline: June 4, 2024, 8:59 pm ET

NIJ seeks proposals for rigorous research and evaluation projects that inform policy and practice in the field of youth justice and delinquency prevention. Proposed studies should advance knowledge and understanding in the following two categories:

  • Youth Justice Reinvestment Studies which evaluate the effectiveness, including cost-effectiveness, of youth justice system reforms and subsequent reinvestments into programs that serve youth in their communities.
  • Prevention and Intervention Program Effectiveness Studies which evaluate the effectiveness of school and community-based prevention and intervention programs.

Learn more and apply (PDF, 41 pages).

Enhancing School Safety Using Behavioral Threat Assessment

Posted | Mar 27 2024

This virtual training series will highlight key findings and implications of the National Threat Assessment Center’s (NTAC) research on school violence prevention. Attendees will learn about the background, thinking, and behavior of school attackers and how some schools discovered and stopped plots before violence occurred. This series will also provide guidance on how schools may develop or improve existing violence prevention programs utilizing a behavioral threat assessment model. Webinar dates include: 

  • May 8, 2024, 12:00 - 2:00 pm ET 

  • July 11, 2024, 12:00 - 2:00 pm ET 

  • September 12, 2024, 12:00 - 2:00 pm ET 

 Learn more and register. 

Mental Health Service Professional (MHSP) Demonstration Grant Program (Funding Opportunity)

Posted | Mar 27 2024

Application deadline: May 15, 2024 

This program provides competitive grants to support and demonstrate innovative partnerships to train school-based mental health services providers for employment in schools and local educational agencies (LEAs). The goal of this program is to increase the number and diversity of high-quality, trained providers available to address the shortages of mental health services professionals in schools served by high-need LEAs. Proposed partnerships must include one or more high-need LEAs or a State educational agency (SEA) on behalf of one or more high-need LEAs and one or more eligible institutions of higher education (eligible IHE). Applications will be accepted under three absolute priority areas: 

  1. Absolute Priority 1—Expand Capacity of High-need LEAs 

  1. Absolute Priority 2—Applications From New Potential Grantees 

  1. Absolute Priority 3—Applications from Grantees that Are Not New Potential Grantees 

Learn more and apply.