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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: School violence

Number of Awards: 90
Total Amount Awarded: $191,386,401

Funded Awards
FY Title Original Solicitation Recipient State Award Number Amount Status
2016 A Comprehensive Longitudinal Study of School Violence and the School-to-Prison Pipeline: Root Causes and Consequences of and Implications for Restorative Justice Approaches Comprehensive School Safety Initiative RMC RESEARCH CORPORATION NH 2016-CK-BX-0014 $499,863 Closed
2020 Investigating the Effectiveness of the School Security Climate on Student Connectedness and School Performance NIJ Non-solicited Applications, FY 2020 MONTCLAIR STATE UNIVERSITY NJ 2017-CK-BX-4008 $567,191 Closed
2014 Effective Methods to Assess Exposure to Violence and Victimization Among American Indian and Alaskan Native Youth NIJ FY 14 Methodological Research to Support NIJ's Program of Research Examining Violence and Victimization of American Indian (AI) and Alaska Native (AN) Youth American Indian Development Associates, LLC NM 2014-MU-MU-K001 $421,104 Closed
2016 Effective Methods To Assess Exposure To Violence And Victimization Among American Indian And Alaska Native Youth: Phases 3 and 4 Non-solicited Applications American Indian Development Associates, LLC NM 2014-MU-MU-K001 $367,798 Closed
2015 Effective Methods to Assess Exposure to Violence and Victimization Among American Indian and Alaska Native Youth: Phase II NIJ FY 15 Office of Research and Evaluation Continuations American Indian Development Associates, LLC NM 2014-MU-MU-K001 $536,941 Closed
2014 Examining School Safety and Positive Climate and Culture: A Comprehensive Study in New York City NIJ FY 14 Investigator-Initiated Research: The Comprehensive School Safety Initiative Fund for the City of New York / Center for Court Innovation NY 2014-CK-BX-0001 $629,952 Closed
2016 Understanding the Causes of School Violence Using Open Source Data Comprehensive School Safety Initiative RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF THE CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK NY 2016-CK-BX-0013 $699,629 Closed
2017 Making Schools Safer and/or Creating a Pipeline to Prison: A Study of North Carolina Schools NIJ FY17 Comprehensive School Safety Initiative RESEARCH FOUNDATION FOR THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK, THE NY 2017-CK-BX-0006 $498,265 Closed
2020 Investigating Root Causes of School Violence: A Case Control Study of School Violent Offenders, Non-School Youth Violence Offenders, and Non-Offending Youths Research and Evaluation on School Safety, Fiscal Year 2020 RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF THE CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK NY 2020-CK-BX-0003 $797,256 Past Project Period End Date
2014 Walking School Bus Program NIJ FY 14 Developing Knowledge About What Works to Make Schools Safe CINCINNATI CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT OH 2014-CK-BX-0103 $1,358,861 Closed
2015 Individual, Institutional and Community Sources of School Violence: A Meta-Analysis NIJ FY 15 Comprehensive School Safety Initiative University of Cincinnati OH 2015-CK-BX-0001 $380,122 Closed
2001 Role of Law Enforcement in Public School Safety Process Evaluations in Four Tribal Drug Courts University of Cincinnati OH 2001-IJ-CX-0011 $405,262 Closed
2015 Project SOARS (Student Ownership, Accountability, and Responsibility for School safety) NIJ FY 15 Comprehensive School Safety Initiative IRIS MEDIA INC OR 2015-MU-MU-K003 $5,622,172 Closed
2014 Pursuing Equitable Restorative Communities NIJ FY 14 Developing Knowledge About What Works to Make Schools Safe School District of Pittsburgh PA 2014-CK-BX-0020 $3,021,407 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
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
2014 Using a Restorative Justice Approach to Enrich School Climate and Improve School Safety NIJ FY 14 Developing Knowledge About What Works to Make Schools Safe CENTRAL FALLS SCHOOL DISTRICT RI 2014-CK-BX-0025 $3,680,000 Closed
2014 Partner Violence Prevention for Middle School Boys: A Dyadic Web-Based Intervention NIJ FY 14 Research and Evaluation on Violence Against Women: Teen Dating Violence, Sexual Violence, and Intimate Partner Violence Rhode Island Hospital RI 2014-MU-CX-0002 $791,846 Closed
2014 Testing Integrative Models to Improve School Safety: Positive Behavior Interventions Support and the Olweus Bullying Prevention Program NIJ FY 14 Developing Knowledge About What Works to Make Schools Safe Chesterfield County School District SC 2014-CK-BX-0012 $2,460,220 Open
2015 Interconnecting PBIS and School Mental Health to Improve School Safety: A Randomized Trial NIJ FY 15 Comprehensive School Safety Initiative UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA SC 2015-CK-BX-0018 $4,106,951 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
2016 Nashville Longitudinal Study of Youth Safety and Wellbeing Comprehensive School Safety Initiative VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY TN 2016-CK-BX-K002 $4,916,705 Closed
2006 School Safety and Sex Offender Screening Project NIJ FY06 School Safety Solicitation: Invited Full Applications Raptor Technologies, Inc. TX 2006-IJ-CX-0043 $52,675 Closed
2014 PSJA ISD Safe School Research Initiative NIJ FY 14 Developing Knowledge About What Works to Make Schools Safe Pharr San Juan Alamo Independent School District TX 2014-CK-BX-0015 $4,137,035 Closed
2015 Evaluation of an Intensive Truancy Reduction Program (CISDRXT) within Communities In Schools (CIS) of the Dallas Region NIJ FY 15 Comprehensive School Safety Initiative EDVANCE RESEARCH, INC. TX 2015-CK-BX-0015 $4,609,701 Closed