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Youth Violence Prevention Program

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Description: Provides funding to develop and enhance strategies to prevent youth violence, including youth gang or group involvement and youth gang or group violence. Deliverables from this program include the development of new direct service programs or the enhancement of existing programs for youth with multiple risk factors for violence.

Access Link: https://ojjdp.ojp.gov/funding/opportunities/o-ojjdp-2022-171400

Community Based Violence Intervention and Prevention Initiative (CVIPI)

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Description: Provides funding to prevent and reduce violent crime in communities by supporting comprehensive, evidence-based violence intervention and prevention programs, including efforts to address gang and gun violence, based on partnerships among community residents, local government agencies, victim service providers, community-based organizations, law enforcement, hospitals, researchers, and other community stakeholders.

Access Link: https://bja.ojp.gov/funding/opportunities/o-bja-2023-171647

Cooperative Agreements for School-Based Trauma-Informed Support Services (TISS) and Mental Health Care for Children and Youth

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Description: Provides funding to increase student access to evidence-based and culturally relevant trauma support services and mental health care by developing innovative initiatives, activities, and programs to link local school systems with local trauma-informed support and mental health systems, including those under the Indian Health Service.

Access Link: https://www.samhsa.gov/school-campus-health/trauma-support-services-mental-heal…

Research and Evaluation on School Safety

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Description: Provides funding to research and evaluate projects to fill knowledge gaps in two topical areas: 1) studies on the root causes and consequences of school violence and 2) examinations of the impact and effectiveness of school safety approaches implemented for purposes authorized under the Students Teachers Officers Preventing School Violence Act.

Access Link: https://nij.ojp.gov/funding/opportunities/o-nij-2023-171616

Mental Health Awareness Training Grants

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Description: Provides funding to train individuals to recognize the signs and symptoms of mental disorders, particularly serious mental illness; establish links with community-based mental-health agencies for referrals; train emergency services personnel and others to identify people with a mental disorder; employ crisis de-escalation techniques; and educate individuals about resources available in the community for individuals with a mental disorder.

Access Link: https://www.samhsa.gov/grants/grant-announcements/sm-23-002

Project AWARE (Advancing Wellness and Resiliency in Education) 

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Description: Provides funding to develop a sustainable infrastructure for school-based mental health programs and services. Grant recipients will leverage their partnerships to implement mental health related promotion, awareness, prevention, intervention, and resilience activities to ensure that students have access and are connected to appropriate and effective behavioral health services. This program is expected to promote the healthy social and emotional development of school-aged youth and prevent youth violence in school settings.

Access Link: https://www.samhsa.gov/grants/grant-announcements/sm-23-001

Human Trafficking Youth Prevention Education (HTYPE) Demonstration Program

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Description: Provides funding to local educational agencies (LEA) to develop and implement programs to prevent human trafficking victimization through the provision of skills-based human trafficking training and education for school staff and students as specified in the Frederick Douglass Trafficking Victims Prevention and Protection Reauthorization Act of 2018. LEAs must partner with a nonprofit or Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) to be eligible.

Access Link: https://www.acf.hhs.gov/otip/grant-funding/htype-human-trafficking-youth-preven…

National Child Traumatic Stress Initiative – Category III, Community Treatment and Service (CTS) Centers 

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Description: Provides funding to provide and increase access to effective trauma-focused treatment and services systems in communities for children and adolescents, and their families who experience traumatic events throughout the nation.

Access Link: https://www.samhsa.gov/grants/grant-announcements/sm-23-010

Project Prevent

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Provides funding to local education agencies (LEAs) impacted by community violence and to expand the capacity of LEAs to implement community- and school-based strategies to help prevent, and mitigate the impacts of exposure to, community violence.

Access Link: https://oese.ed.gov/offices/office-of-formula-grants/safe-supportive-schools/pr…

School-Based Service Expansion

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Description: Provides funding to expand access to primary health services, including mental health services, through Health Center Program award recipients’ service delivery sites located at or on the grounds of schools.

Access Link: https://bphc.hrsa.gov/funding/funding-opportunities/school-based-service-expans…