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

Bureau of Justice Assistance · Opportunity number O-BJA-2026-172709

14 days left (deadline Oct 30, 2026)

Details summarized from the official notice as of Oct 16, 2026. Always confirm eligibility, deadlines and requirements in the official notice before applying.

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Key facts

Opportunity number	O-BJA-2026-172709
Agency	Bureau of Justice Assistance Department of Justice
Assistance listing (ALN, formerly CFDA)	16.839
Posted	Sep 21, 2026
Deadline	Oct 30, 2026
Award ceiling	$2,000,000
Cost sharing or matching required	No
Funding type	Grant
Category	Law justice and legal services
Last updated here	Oct 16, 2026

Summary from the notice

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.

Who can apply

The official notice lists these applicant types as eligible:

Special district governments
County governments
Nonprofits with 501(c)(3) status (other than colleges)
Nonprofits without 501(c)(3) status (other than colleges)
City or township governments
Private colleges and universities
Others named in the notice (see the eligibility text)
Public and state colleges and universities
Federally recognized tribal governments
State governments
Independent school districts

Who should take a closer look

Nonprofits
Colleges and universities
State governments
Local governments
Tribal governments and organizations

Not listed as eligible

Small businesses
Larger for-profit companies
Individuals

Unless the eligibility text in the notice names you, this opportunity is probably not for you.

Eligibility details from the notice

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.

Registrations you will likely need

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SAM.gov registration for your organization, which also gives you a Unique Entity ID (UEI). Registration is free.
A Login.gov account, which Grants.gov uses for sign-in.
A Grants.gov applicant registration linked to your organization's UEI.

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

Key facts

Summary from the notice

Who can apply

Who should take a closer look

Not listed as eligible

Eligibility details from the notice

Registrations you will likely need

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