6 Grants Your Public Agency Might Benefit From

Deadlines:
Grants.gov Deadline: March 12, 2025
JustGrants Deadline: March 19, 2025

Amount: up to $800,000  

With this solicitation, the Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) seeks applications for grant funds from  state, local, campus, and tribal law enforcement to enhance training via the utilization of fully immersive  virtual reality-based technology. The training should improve responses to individuals in crisis and  improve the de-escalation skills of participants. A plan for how the proposed technology will be  integrated into applicant agency’s existing training should be developed. 

Deadlines:
Grants.gov Deadline: March 18, 2025
JustGrants Deadline: March 25, 2025

Amount: Average grant size is approximately $250,000  

This funding opportunity seeks to support state, local, and tribal law enforcement and correctional  entities to develop and implement crisis response training programs.

Deadlines:
Grants.gov Deadline: April 3, 2025
JustGrants Deadline: March 10, 2025

Amount: Up to $550,000

This funding opportunity seeks to fund programs that support collaborations to improve public  safety responses and outcomes for people with mental health disorders (MHDs) or co-occurring mental  health and substance use disorders (MHSUDs). The goal is to improve safety and well-being for adults  with MHDs (including people with traumatic brain injury and post-traumatic stress disorder) or MHSUDs  who come into contact with the criminal justice system. 

Deadlines:
Grants.gov Deadline: April 3, 2025
JustGrants Deadline: March 10, 2025

Amount: Up to $550,000

This funding opportunity seeks to fund programs that support collaborations between law  enforcement and behavioral health agencies to improve public safety responses and outcomes for people  who qualify with behavioral health needs. The goal is to implement deflection and diversion programs at  first contact, such as crisis response and intervention teams, co-responders and other collaborative model  approaches. The program focuses on improving safety and well-being for people with mental health  disorders or co-occurring mental health and substance use disorders. Eligible entities can prepare, create,  or expand collaborative projects. 

Deadlines:
June 2025

Amount: Reimbursement grant–up to $400,000

Grantees may use grant funds to enforce a local ordinance or state law related to the  illegal sale and marketing of tobacco products, including e-cigarettes, to minors and  youth. These enforcement efforts may include, but are not limited to: 

• • Retailer compliance checks
  • Enforcement of flavor ban laws/ordinances
  • Consumer protection enforcement
  • Illegal online sales and marketing, including use of door-to-door delivery services
  • Retailer training programs
  • Public education outreach
  • Tobacco retail license inspection

Deadlines:
August 2025

Amount: Up to $215,053

With this solicitation, BJA seeks applications for funding under the Project Safe Neighborhoods Formula  Grant Program (PSN). PSN is a nationwide initiative that brings together federal, state, local, tribal, and  territorial law enforcement officials, prosecutors, community-based partners, and other stakeholders to  identify the most pressing violent crime problems in a community and develop comprehensive solutions  to address them. BJA expects applicants to use funds to support one or more of the following four PSN  design features:

1) Community Engagement – and other stakeholders is an essential component of an effective violence  reduction strategy. Absent community trust, support, and legitimacy, violence reduction strategies are  likely to have only short-term, limited, or no effect and may create divisions between law enforcement  agencies and prosecutors and the communities they serve. Ongoing engagement involves open  communication and builds relationships, trust, and shared public safety values between community  members and law enforcement.

2) Prevention & Intervention – Effective PSN Teams engage in problem-solving approaches that address  violent crime using all the tools at their disposal. This includes utilizing strategies to address risk and  protective factors, which often involves building relationships with representatives of agencies and  organizations most suited to provide education, social services, job training and placement, reentry  programs, or similar resources to those in need. Prevention and intervention activities can provide  individuals and families with skills, opportunities, and alternatives that can ultimately help to reduce  violent crime in communities.

3) Focused & Strategic Enforcement – number of problem places and individuals driving violent crime.  Violent crime is often driven by a small number of prolific offenders; they are often involved in gangs,  neighborhood crews, and violent street groups and are typically concentrated in hotspots and small  “micro-places” (e.g., a street segment with abandoned homes; a problem bar, gas station, or convenience  store; or an open-air drug market). In some jurisdictions, intimate partner violence is the main violent  crime concern. Critical elements of strategic enforcement include understanding the most significant  drivers of violence and resources, leveraging technology and analytics, developing and implementing  enforcement strategies, and deterring others from engaging in violence, which could also be through  public awareness about enforcement actions and available assistance.

4) Accountability – capital, and other resources at the national, state, and local levels. Since the ultimate  goal of PSN is to reduce the level of violence in our communities, analyzing and assessing information  about the incidence of violence and the effectiveness of strategies to address it are important for PSN’s

success and credibility. A research partner is an especially valuable partner who can assist with measuring  the impact of PSN strategies on violent crime and community health.

Deadline:

Applications accepted after January 30th, Gap Financing projects due March 14th, all other  project application types due May 30th or until funds exhausted 

Amount:

Proposition 1 allocates approximately $2 billion, with $1 billion specifically designated for  veterans. 

Homekey+ is part of the Behavioral Health Infrastructure Bond Act (Proposition 1) passed in March  2024. This program aims to develop permanent affordable housing paired with supportive services,  specifically for veterans and individuals with mental health or substance use challenges who are  homeless or at risk of homelessness. Projects should focus on the acquisition and rehabilitation of  existing buildings, new construction, or other innovative housing solutions.

Deadlines:
March 28th, 2025

Amount: $75,000-$200,000 

The ESG program does not fund individuals or families directly. The  ESG program provides grant funding to approved units of general-purpose local  government and federally recognized non-profit organizations. 

These ESG funds are used to: 

1. Engage homeless individuals and families living on the street; 
2. Rapidly re-house homeless individuals and families; 
3. Help operate and provide essential services in emergency shelters for homeless individuals  and families; and 

4. Prevent individuals and families from becoming homeless.