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This page provides access to past funding opportunities from the Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA). Use the search filters below to help you find specific solicitations. From the results, select a solicitation title to view details about the opportunity as well as any resulting awards.

If you are looking for current opportunities available from BJA, see the Available Funding page.

FY24 Connect and Protect: Law Enforcement Behavioral Health Response Program

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This program supports law enforcement–behavioral health cross-system collaboration to improve public health and public safety by improving responses to and outcomes for individuals with mental health disorders or co-occurring mental health and substance use disorders.

FY24 Smart Prosecution – Innovative Prosecution Solutions

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The goal of this program is for prosecutorial agencies to incorporate innovative or evidence-based prosecution strategies as a fundamental component of their efforts to reduce crime and ensure public safety.

FY24 Postconviction Testing of DNA Evidence

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This program assists in defraying the costs associated with postconviction case review, evidence location, and DNA testing in violent felony cases (as defined by state law) where the results of such testing might show actual innocence.

FY24 Community Supervision Strategies

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This grant program seeks to enhance community supervision agencies’ capacity to help reduce recidivism among, and improve outcomes for, people under supervision by using the swift, certain, and/or fair principles of intervention.

FY24 Second Chance Act Community-based Reentry Program

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This program provides funding to enhance or implement evidence-based responses to improve reentry, reduce recidivism, and support successful transitional planning for individuals who are currently, or were formerly, involved in the criminal justice system.

FY24 Prosecuting Cold Cases Using DNA

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Closing Date
This program provides funding to support the prosecution of violent cold case crimes where a suspect (known or unknown) has been identified through DNA evidence.

FY24 Improving Adult and Youth Crisis Stabilization and Community Reentry Program

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This program serves to minimize potential for experiencing crisis and improve recovery outcomes for people with serious mental illness, substance use disorders, and co-occurring disorders who are currently involved with the criminal or juvenile justice systems or reentering the community from these systems.

FY24 Second Chance Act Pay for Success Program

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This program provides funding to use performance-based or outcomes-based contracting to enhance or implement clinical services and other evidence-based responses to improve reentry, reduce recidivism, and address the treatment and recovery needs of people with mental health, substance use, or co-occurring disorders who are currently involved in the criminal justice system or were formerly involved.

FY 2023 Virtual Reality Training Development for Law Enforcement

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With this solicitation, BJA seeks to support a collaborative partnership between two or more universities to develop, design, and pilot a virtual reality training program designed to improve law enforcement interactions with all individuals.

FY 2023 Invited to Apply – August

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This solicitation seeks applications for funding to continue work on a specific prior award.

FY 2023 John R. Justice (JRJ) Formula Grant Program

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Closing Date
This program provides student loan repayment assistance for local, state, and federal public defenders and local and state prosecutors who commit to extended service in those roles.