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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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State: PA,
District: 3

Number of Awards: 52
Total Amount Awarded: $31,512,650

Funded Awards
FY Title Original Solicitation Recipient State Award Number Amount Status
2024 Evaluating Virtual Reality Enhancements of an Evidence-based Multi-tiered Aggression & Bullying Prevention Program NIJ FY24 Research and Evaluation on School Safety THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA PA 15PNIJ-24-GG-01052-STOP $2,335,668 Awarded, but not yet accepted
2024 Leisure Risk for Youth on Probation: How it Relates to Recidivism and How Probation Officers Address it in Case Planning NIJ FY24 Graduate Research Fellowship DREXEL UNIVERSITY PA 15PNIJ-24-GG-01574-RESS $86,385 Awarded, but not yet accepted
2023 A Statewide Mixed-methods Evaluation of Pennsylvania’s 8th Edition Sentencing Guidelines and their Impacts on Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Sentencing Outcomes NIJ FY23 W.E.B. Du Bois Program of Research on Reducing Racial and Ethnic Disparities in the Justice System DREXEL UNIVERSITY PA 15PNIJ-23-GG-01365-NIJB $730,834 Awarded, but not yet accepted
2021 Reducing School Violence and Enhancing School Safety: Implementing and Evaluating the Positive School Safety Program for School Climate Staff Research and Evaluation on School Safety, Fiscal Year 2021 DREXEL UNIVERSITY PA 15PNIJ-21-GG-02978-RESS $846,480 Open
2020 Police Organizational Stress: Impacts on Long-term Health and Wellness and Opportunities for Mitigation Research and Evaluation in Safety, Health, and Wellness in Criminal Justice System, Fiscal Year 2020 TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA, THE PA 2020-R2-CX-0004 $785,851 Declined
2019 Formative Evaluation of a Pediatric Hospital-Based Violence Intervention Program Evaluations of Services for Victims of Crime, FY 2019 CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA, THE PA 2019-V3-GX-0003 $678,752 Closed
2018 Evaluation of the Philadelphia Police School Diversion Program: Long-Term Outcomes and Sustained Impact Legacy OJJDP Research Grants DREXEL UNIVERSITY PA 2017-JF-FX-0055 $750,000 Closed
2017 Evaluating Impacts of the Philadelphia Police School Diversion Program: An Alternative to Arrest Policing Strategy NIJ FY17 Understanding the Impacts of Policing Strategies and Practices (Beyond Crime Reduction) DREXEL UNIVERSITY PA 2017-CK-BX-0001 $1,081,046 Closed
2017 PBIS in Challenging Contexts: Evaluating a Replicable Implementation Approach in Philadelphia NIJ FY17 Comprehensive School Safety Initiative TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA, THE PA 2017-CK-BX-0016 $2,999,912 Closed
2016 Applying Promising Evidence to New Settings: An Experimental Evaluation of Summer Jobs in Philadelphia New Investigator/Early Career Program in the Social and Behavioral Sciences The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania PA 2016-R2-CX-0049 $147,210 Closed
2016 The Victim-Offender Overlap: Examining Police and Service System Networks of Response among Violent Conflicts Research and Evaluation on Victims of Crime TEMPLE UNIVERSITY-OF THE COMMONWEALTH SYSTEM OF HIGHER EDUCATION PA 2016-V3-GX-0009 $579,558 Closed
2015 Instilling a Culture of Continuous Learning From Criminal Justice System Errors: A Multi-Stakeholder Sentinel Event Review of Process in Philadelphia NIJ FY 15 Research on Sentinel Events and Criminal Justice System Errors Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania PA 2015-R2-CX-K040 $351,052 Open
2015 Suspension Practices in the Context of PBIS: Implications for K-8 Students in the School District of Philadelphia NIJ FY 15 Comprehensive School Safety Initiative Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania PA 2015-CK-BX-0013 $883,519 Closed
2015 The Philadelphia Police Department, Office of Forensic Science, Criminalistics Unit Reduction of Forensic Biology and DNA Case Backlog Program NIJ FY 15 DNA Capacity Enhancement and Backlog Reduction Program City of Philadelphia PA 2015-DN-BX-0033 $966,068 Closed
2014 Space-time study of youth and school violence NIJ FY 14 Investigator-Initiated Research: The Comprehensive School Safety Initiative TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA, THE PA 2014-CK-BX-0008 $3,082,625 Closed
2013 FY2013 DNA Backlog Reaction Reduction Program - City of Philadelphia NIJ FY 13 DNA Backlog Reduction Program City of Philadelphia PA 2013-DN-BX-0114 $1,069,271 Closed
2012 Development of Novel 1,2-Indanedione Fingerprint Reagents NIJ FY 12 Ph.D. Graduate Research Fellowship Program Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania PA 2012-IJ-CX-0019 $25,000 Closed
2012 FY 2012 DNA Backlog Reduction Program - City of Philadelphia NIJ FY 12 DNA Backlog Reduction Program City of Philadelphia PA 2012-DN-BX-0109 $1,000,761 Closed
2011 FY 2011 DNA Backlog Reduction Program - City of Philadelphia NIJ FY 11 DNA Backlog Reduction Program City of Philadelphia PA 2011-DN-BX-K425 $1,146,517 Closed
2010 FY 2010 Forensic DNA Backlog Reduction Program - City of Philadelphia NIJ FY 10 Forensic DNA Backlog Reduction Program City of Philadelphia PA 2010-DN-BX-K114 $968,799 Closed
2010 Immigrant Concentration and Homicide Mortality: A Spatial and Temporal Analysis of the Effects of Ethnic Enclaves NIJ FY 10 ORE Ph.D.Graduate Research Fellowship Program Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania PA 2010-IJ-CX-0003 $25,000 Closed
2009 FY 2009 Forensic DNA Backlog Reduction Program - City of Philadelphia NIJ FY 09 Forensic DNA Backlog Reduction Program Formula Grant Program City of Philadelphia PA 2009-DN-BX-K142 $993,589 Closed
2008 Philadelphia Police- Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grant NIJ FY 08 Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grant Program City of Philadelphia PA 2008-CD-BX-0097 $65,600 Closed
2008 Philadelphia Police- Solving Cold Cases with DNA- 2008 NIJ FY 08 Solving Cold Cases with DNA City of Philadelphia PA 2008-DN-BX-K171 $585,678 Closed
2008 This project will test, with a randomized controlled trial, an intensive community supervision strategy for probationers and parolees who are at extremely high risk of committing homicidal acts. NIJ FY 08 ORE Crime and Justice Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania PA 2008-IJ-CX-0024 $350,000 Closed