BJA FY24 Office of Justice Programs Community Based Violence Intervention and Prevention Initiative Training and Technical Assistance Program | O BJA 2024 172177

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The BJA FY24 Office of Justice Programs Community Based Violence Intervention and Prevention Initiative (CVIPI) Training and Technical Assistance (TTA) Program is a discretionary federal grant opportunity from the U.S. Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA). BJA is running this solicitation in coordination with two other DOJ components: the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) and the Office for Victims of Crime (OVC). The core purpose is to fund an organization (or organizations) that can deliver practical, field-facing training and technical assistance to current CVIPI grantees and to the broader community violence intervention and prevention field. In other words, the funding is aimed less at direct service delivery in one location and more at strengthening the national ecosystem of CVI work by building capacity, spreading effective practices, and helping sites solve implementation problems.

This opportunity is designed to expand and complement BJA's existing set of TTA providers. The solicitation emphasizes bringing in additional expertise in several priority areas that reflect common gaps and emerging needs in CVI. Those priority areas include trauma-informed practices and workforce development for CVI organizations and staff, which typically covers topics like secondary traumatic stress, staff wellness, organizational policies that reduce burnout, supportive supervision models, safer field operations, and training pathways that professionalize and stabilize the CVI workforce. It also calls out mass casualty shooting reviews, which generally involve structured after-action or incident review approaches that help communities and systems partners learn from shootings, identify breakdowns or missed opportunities across prevention and response, and translate lessons into improved protocols. Another focus area is law enforcement engagement with CVI programs, reflecting the reality that CVI often intersects with public safety systems and benefits from clear roles, mutual understanding, information-sharing frameworks that respect privacy and safety, and relationship-building strategies that reduce friction while maintaining community credibility.

Beyond topic-specific assistance, the solicitation also highlights the need for TTA network support and coordination. That typically means helping align providers, reduce duplication, standardize key resources where appropriate, and ensure grantees can access the right kind of help at the right time. Finally, BJA is seeking support for strategic communications, which can include helping grantees communicate program goals and results to residents, partners, funders, and policymakers; improving messaging that builds trust and legitimacy; and producing materials that accurately explain CVI methods, boundaries, and impacts. Across all these areas, the intent is to improve implementation quality, strengthen organizational readiness, and increase the likelihood that CVIPI-funded efforts are effective, sustainable, and responsive to community needs.

Key administrative details are as follows. The funding opportunity title is "BJA FY24 Office of Justice Programs Community Based Violence Intervention and Prevention Initiative Training and Technical Assistance Program," with funding opportunity number O-BJA-2024-172177. The instrument type is a grant, and the activity category is Law, Justice and Legal Services. The CFDA (now commonly referenced as Assistance Listing) number is 16.045. Eligible applicants include a wide range of entities that can credibly deliver national or multi-site training and technical assistance: public and state-controlled institutions of higher education, private institutions of higher education, nonprofit organizations (including both 501(c)(3) and non-501(c)(3) entities, excluding IHEs in those nonprofit categories), and for-profit organizations (including small businesses and other for-profit organizations that are not small businesses). The solicitation was created on 2024-06-07, and the original closing date was 2024-07-30. The listed award ceiling is $3,500,000, indicating BJA is prepared to fund a sizable TTA effort with enough scale to support multiple sites and deliver a mix of products, coaching, convenings, and field resources.

• The Bureau of Justice Assistance in the law, justice and legal services sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "BJA FY24 Office of Justice Programs Community Based Violence Intervention and Prevention Initiative Training and Technical Assistance Program" and is now available to receive applicants.
• Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 16.045.
• This funding opportunity was created on 2024-06-07.
• Applicants must submit their applications by 2024-07-30. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
• Each selected applicant is eligible to receive up to $3,500,000.00 in funding.
• Eligible applicants include: Public and State controlled institutions of higher education, Nonprofits having a 501 (c) (3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education, Nonprofits that do not have a 501 (c) (3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education, Private institutions of higher education, For-profit organizations other than small businesses, Small businesses.

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