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

The BJA FY 2026 STOP School Violence Program is a discretionary grant program from the U.S. Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Assistance to support school violence prevention and reduction efforts. Projects supported include training, school threat assessment/intervention teams, and technology-based anonymous reporting tools. Awards provide federal grant funding to eligible organizations to implement these activities. The program issues an award ceiling for each grant.

Federal grant funding to support prevention and reduction activities; award ceiling up to $2,000,000 per award.

Eligible applicants include nonprofits (with or without 501(c)(3) status), state, county, city/township governments, independent school districts, public and private institutions of higher education, federally recognized tribal governments, and special district governments.