BJA FY 2026 Students, Teachers, and Officers Preventing (STOP) School Violence Program
Bureau of Justice Assistance · STOP School Violence (16.839)
Posted 21 Sept 2026 · 30 days left
In plain terms
The US Bureau of Justice Assistance funds school safety programmes that prevent and reduce violence through training, threat assessment teams, anonymous reporting systems, and other safety strategies. Grants up to 2 million US dollars support schools and local governments, with applications due by 30 October 2026.
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Summary
This is a notice of funding opportunity (NOFO) for the FY26 Students, Teachers, and Officers Prevention (STOP) School Violence Program. This opportunity supports programs to prevent and reduce school violence by implementing training, developing school threat assessment teams and/or intervention teams to identify violence risks, introducing technologies like anonymous reporting tools, or applying other school safety strategies that assist in preventing violence. The Student, Teachers, and Officers Preventing School Violence Act of 2018 (STOP School Violence Act) describes the following allowable uses of funding for school safety projects:
• Training to prevent student violence against others and self, including training for local law enforcement officers, school personnel, and students.
• The development and operation of technology solutions such as anonymous reporting systems for threats of school violence, including mobile telephone applications, hotlines, and internet websites.
• The development and deployment of:
o School threat assessment and intervention teams that include coordination with law enforcement agencies and school personnel or
o Specialized training for school…
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Who can apply
- government
- ngo_cso
- academia_research
Eligibility and conditions
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Applicant types: City or township governments; Nonprofits that do not have a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education; Private institutions of higher education; County governments; Special district governments; State governments; Independent school districts; Public and State controlled institutions of higher education; Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized); Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education; Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification)
Other entities: Private K–12 schools, including private charter schools, should apply as “nonprofits.”; Public charter schools should apply as “independent school districts.”; Other Units of Local Government: For the purposes of this NOFO, other units of local government include towns, boroughs, parishes, villages, or other general purpose political subdivisions of a state.