Funding Opportunity: Community-Based Violence Intervention and Prevention Initiative

FY24 Office of Justice Programs Community Based Violence Intervention and Prevention Initiative Site-Based U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs (OJP) seeks to prevent and reduce violent crime in communities by supporting comprehensive, evidence-based community-based violence intervention and prevention programs. These programs include 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.

Funding Opportunity: STOP School Violence Program Competitive Solicitation

The U.S. Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) seeks to increase school safety by implementing solutions that will improve school climate. Solutions include school-based behavioral threat assessments and/or intervention teams to identify school violence risks among students, technological innovations that are shown to increase school safety such as anonymous reporting technology, and other school safety strategies that assist in preventing violence.

Funding Opportunity: Colorado CVI

The Office of Gun Violence Prevention (OGVP) within the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment (CPDHE) has established a grant program for organizations to conduct community-based gun violence initiatives focused on interrupting cycles of gun violence, trauma, and retaliation. This year, OGVP will provide funding focused on firearm suicide prevention and community violence intervention initiatives. The overall goal of this funding is to address disparities in those communities at the highest risk.

Job Posting: Senior Manager of CVI Capacity Building, Health & Racial Equity

The Massachusetts Community Violence Intervention Capacity Building Initiative is seeking a CVI Capacity Building Senior Manager to provide violence prevention and intervention technical assistance to five violence prevention grantees across Massachusetts. Senior Manager candidates must be based in or willing to move to MA and have experience CVI work.

Funding Opportunity: Virginia Project Safe Neighborhood (PSN)

The United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, in partnership with the Virginia Department of Criminal Justice Services (DCJS), is pleased to announce the availability of approximately $500,000 in federal funds through the Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) Project Safe Neighborhoods (PSN) Grant Program. The PSN program awards federal funds to provide comprehensive, collaborative, and community-based approaches to reducing violent crime using a full range of appropriate violent crime reduction strategies.

Funding Opportunity: Enhancing School Capacity To Address Youth Violence

OJJDP FY24 The U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) seeks to support targeted efforts to address youth violence through implementing evidence-based prevention and intervention efforts in a school-based setting (K–12th grade only). The goals of the program are to (1) reduce the incidence of school violence through improved school safety and climate and (2) prevent youth violence, delinquency, and victimization in the targeted community.

Job Posting: Senior Director, KP Center for Gun Violence, Research and Education

Kaiser Permanente Center for Gun Violence Research and Education is seeking a Senior Director who will work alongside the Executive Director to implement the KP Center’s strategic plan and oversee operational development, growth, and efficiency.

Giffords Center for Violence Intervention 2024 Community Violence Intervention Conference

The Community Violence Intervention Conference brings CVI experts—both national and international—to discuss the impact of this lifesaving work. The goal of the conference is to bring together leading experts, advocates, and practitioners to share insights, struggles, and opportunities in a communal space devoted to advancing the field of community violence intervention.

This webinar is part of a series for the STOP School Violence Specialized Training and Technical Assistance (TTA) Program.

This webinar supports the Community Based Violence Intervention and Prevention Initiative (CVIPI), a historic federal investment in community violence intervention programs.