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Awards: Listing of Funded Projects

Every year, NIJ awards grants and cooperative agreements for research, development, evaluation, testing and training and technical assistance projects across the spectrum of criminal justice.
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Subtopic: Juvenile justice

Number of Awards: 308
Total Amount Awarded: $328,849,153

Funded Awards
FY Title Original Solicitation Recipient State Award Number Amount Status
2017 Investigating the Effectiveness of the School Security Climate on Student Connectedness and School Performance NIJ FY17 Comprehensive School Safety Initiative Yeshiva University NY 2017-CK-BX-0008 $1,000,000 Closed
2013 Trends in juvenile criminal case processing and education NIJ FY 13 Data Resources Program: Funding for Analysis of Existing Data Yale University CT 2013-JF-FX-0018 $39,976 Closed
2014 Wisconsin School Violence and Bullying Prevention Study NIJ FY 14 Developing Knowledge About What Works to Make Schools Safe Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction WI 2014-CK-BX-0011 $858,187 Closed
2016 The Next Generation in the Measurement of Adolescent Relationship Abuse Research on Measurement of Teen Dating Violence William Paterson University of New Jersey NJ 2016-MU-CX-0007 $285,668 Closed
2014 A National Impact Study on the Effectiveness of School-based Youth Courts NIJ FY 14 Investigator-Initiated Research: The Comprehensive School Safety Initiative WestEd CA 2014-CK-BX-0010 $1,836,976 Closed
2006 Outcome Evaluation of Tribes Learning Communities NIJ FY06 ORE Evaluation of Violence Prevention Programs WestEd CA 2006-JP-FX-0059 $658,303 Closed
2009 What Promotes Resilience in Youth Exposed to Violence: A Multilevel Analysis NIJ FY 09 ORE Data Resources Program WestEd CA 2009-IJ-CX-0103 $38,000 Closed
2014 A Randomized Impact Evaluation of the No Bully System NIJ FY 14 Investigator-Initiated Research: The Comprehensive School Safety Initiative WestEd CA 2014-CK-BX-0007 $1,497,696 Closed
2015 Comprehensive School Safety in Atlanta Public Schools NIJ FY 15 Comprehensive School Safety Initiative WESTED CA 2015-CK-BX-K001 $7,499,668 Closed
2015 A Randomized Impact Evaluation of Capturing Kids Hearts NIJ FY 15 Comprehensive School Safety Initiative WESTED CA 2015-CK-BX-0014 $3,469,720 Closed
2016 A Randomized Controlled Trial of Safe School Ambassadors in High Risk Schools in Puerto Rico Comprehensive School Safety Initiative WestEd CA 2016-CK-BX-0001 $4,744,947 Closed
2017 A Developmental Study of the Keeping Kids in School Initiative NIJ FY17 Comprehensive School Safety Initiative WESTED CA 2017-CK-BX-0018 $999,333 Closed
2020 Research and Evaluation on School Safety: An Evaluation of State School Safety Centers Research and Evaluation on School Safety, Fiscal Year 2020 WESTED CA 2020-CK-BX-0002 $999,000 Open
2020 An Evaluation of a Statewide Approach to the Prevention and Intervention of Violence using School Threat Assessment Teams Research and Evaluation on School Safety, Fiscal Year 2020 WESTED CA 2020-MU-MU-0011 $852,868 Open
2018 OJJDP FY 16 Assessing the Impact of Juvenile Justice Reforms Program Legacy OJJDP Research Grants WESTAT, INC. MD 2016-JF-FX-0058 $499,752 Closed
2014 Study of Police in Schools NIJ FY 14 Investigator-Initiated Research: The Comprehensive School Safety Initiative Westat MD 2014-CK-BX-0006 $1,861,520 Closed
2018 Optimizing Juvenile Assessment Performance Legacy OJJDP Research Grants Washington State University WA 2017-JF-FX-0063 $124,803 Closed
2015 A Multiple Perspectives Analysis of the Influences on the School to Prison Pipeline in Virginia NIJ FY 15 Comprehensive School Safety Initiative Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University VA 2015-CK-BX-0007 $914,241 Open
2012 Social Bonds Across Immigration Generations and the Immigrant School Enclave NIJ FY 12 W.E.B. Dubois Fellowship for Research in Race, Gender, Culture and Crime Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University VA 2012-IJ-CX-0003 $99,122 Closed
2016 An Investigation of School Resource and Safety Programs Policy and Practice in Virginia Comprehensive School Safety Initiative VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE & STATE UNIVERSITY VA 2016-CK-BX-0021 $689,416 Closed
2014 Evaluation of the Effectiveness and Sustainability of the Olweus Bullying Prevention Program in Increasing School Safety for Urban Low-Income Middle Schools NIJ FY 14 Investigator-Initiated Research: The Comprehensive School Safety Initiative Virginia Commonwealth University VA 2014-CK-BX-0009 $2,660,933 Closed
2012 Teen Dating Violence Victimization in an Urban Sample of Early Adolescents: Measurement, Prevalence, Trajectories, and Consequences NIJ FY 12 Longitudinal Data on Teen Dating Violence: Postdoctoral Fellowship Virginia Commonwealth University VA 2012-IJ-CX-0014 $297,297 Closed
2015 Questioning Bias: Validating a Bias Crime Victim Assessment Tool in California and New Jersey NIJ FY 15 Research on Bias Crime Victimization Vera Institute of Justice NY 2015-R2-CX-0037 $498,893 Closed
2014 The Effectiveness of School Resource Officers in Tennessee High Schools NIJ FY 14 Graduate Research Fellowship Program in the Social and Behavioral Sciences Vanderbilt University TN 2014-IJ-CX-0017 $32,000 Closed
2018 Bridging Research and Practice to Advance Juvenile Justice and Safety Legacy OJJDP Research Grants Urban Institute DC 2015-MU-MU-K002 $500,000 Closed