Rural and Small Department Violent Crime Reduction Program

Office of Justice Programs Response Center:
grants@ncjrs.gov
800.851.3420

The Bureau of Justice Assistance will provide funding to strengthen the capacity of small/rural law enforcement agencies and prosecutors to combat violent crime by implementing critical elements from the following BJA-developed guides:

• Violent Crime Reduction Roadmap
• Violent Crime Reduction Operations Guide
• Prosecutors' Guide to Reducing Violence and Building Safer Communities

Among their critical elements, the guides promote strategies and services to mitigate the risk for violent behavior in individuals dealing with mental health and/or substance use disorders, including crisis intervention programs and services and treatment courts.

Eligible applicants include:

• Small law enforcement agencies, defined as any agency with 250 or fewer sworn officers
• Rural agencies, defined as:
  • An agency serving any area or community, no part of which is within an area designated as a standard metropolitan statistical area by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB)
  • An agency serving one or more rural census tracts
• Tribal law enforcement agencies, defined as any federally recognized tribe with a designated law enforcement agency

Award ceiling: $300,000
Project period: 3 years
Estimated number of awards: 15
Estimated total program funding: $6,000,000

Links to the full announcement, application instructions, and the online application process are available through grants.gov.

Applicants should submit an SF-424 and an SF-LLL in grants.gov by May 15, 2024.

Submit the full application, including attachments, in the JustGrants grants management system by May 22, 2024.