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BJA FY 2026 Students, Teachers, and Officers Preventing (STOP) School Violence Program

Bureau of Justice Assistance

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 tea

Funding
Varies
Category
Uncategorized
Status
OPEN
Deadline
10/31/2026

About

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 officials in responding to mental health crises. BJA’s STOP School Violence Program improves school safety and security by providing students and teachers with the tools they need to recognize, respond quickly to, and help prevent acts of violence. Activities that go beyond the allowable uses of funding as described above will not be funded.

Eligibility

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.

Applicant types

Notice-specific evidence check

What an applicant must verify for BJA FY 2026 Students, Teachers, and Officers Preventing (STOP) School Violence Program

Applicant evidence

  • Applicant type: State governments
  • Applicant type: County governments
  • Applicant type: City or township governments
  • Applicant type: Special district governments
  • Applicant type: Independent school districts
  • Applicant type: Public and state-controlled institutions of higher education
  • Applicant type: Federally recognized tribal governments
  • Applicant type: 501(c)(3) nonprofits other than higher-education institutions

Opportunity boundaries

  • Recorded funding: Up to USD 2,000,000
  • Recorded deadline: October 31, 2026; confirm time zone and submission system.
  • Recorded focus: Law, justice and legal services
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Application checklist

How to apply for BJA FY 2026 Students, Teachers, and Officers Preventing (STOP) School Violence Program

The steps below turn the recorded grant fields into a pre-submission check. They do not replace the current Notice of Funding Opportunity or its amendments.

Recorded eligibility

  • Applicant types: Grants.gov eligibility code 00, Grants.gov eligibility code 01, Grants.gov eligibility code 02, Grants.gov eligibility code 04, Grants.gov eligibility code 05, Grants.gov eligibility code 06.
  • Geographic scope is not structured in this record.
  • Notice summary: 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.

Focus areas: LJL

Recorded deadline

October 30, 2026 — confirm the time zone and submission system

A missing or rolling date is not permission to assume an open application window.

  1. 1. Confirm fitMatch your applicant type, location, project scope and any cost-share or registration rule to the official notice.
  2. 2. Read the noticeCollect the current guidelines, amendments, budget rules, required attachments and submission instructions.
  3. 3. Check timingRecord the deadline time zone, internal review date and any earlier registration or portal cut-off.
  4. 4. Submit thereUse the official application route and save the confirmation or submission reference.

Official sources

Recorded source: https://www.grants.gov/xml-extract

Last directory verification: Sep 23, 2026.