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Research and Evaluation on School Safety, Fiscal Year 2020

Opportunity ID
NIJ-2020-17308
Solicitation Status
Closed
Fiscal Year
2020
Closing Date
Posting Date
Solicitation Type
Competitive
Description

This solicitation seeks applications for funding to conduct research to

  1. Examine the root causes of school violence.
  2. Evaluate the effectiveness of the approaches to stopping school violence found in the Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) and the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS Office) FY 2018 or FY 2019 STOP School Violence Act solicitations.
  3. Research on the perspectives of STOP School Violence Act solicitations.

Awards

Number of Awards: 7
Total Amount Awarded: $5,593,109

Date Modified: March 19, 2020

Formatting on page 8 of the solicitation was revised to indicate that all applications proposing research involving partnerships must include a strong letter of support, signed by an appropriate decision-making authority from each proposed partnering agency. See pages 8-9 of the attached solicitation document for additional information.

Date Created: January 3, 2020