Block Grant 2019YSBX0080

The Santa Ana Unified School District Public Facilities Corporation was awarded a $472,093 project grant from the Department of Justice's Community Oriented Policing Services Office under the Public Safety Partnership and Community Policing Grants program. The grant period runs from October 1, 2022 to September 30, 2025. The funding will support the School Violence Prevention Program, which aims to improve security at schools and on school grounds through evidence-based programs and...

The Southeast Regional Resource Center (SERRC) received a $930,261 Project Grant from the U.S. Department of Justice's Bureau of Justice Assistance under the STOP School Violence Program (CFDA 16.839). The AKSAFE project aims to reduce violence and improve mental health support across 18 underserved school districts in Alaska. Key activities include implementing anonymous reporting systems, providing culturally responsive restorative practices training, offering mental health first aid training,...

This Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (CFDA 47.041 - Engineering) to Clarkson University provides $200,000 to design and develop biometric identification technology specifically for infants and toddlers (ages 0-4). The key objectives are to: 1) create age-adaptive biometric identification systems for facial, fingerprint, and iris recognition; 2) integrate quality-aware image capture and real-time authentication capabilities into miniaturized biometric devices; 3)...

This $399,999 Project Grant was awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Federal Grant Program (CFDA 47.070). The project, titled "Collaborative Research: CSR: SMALL: Accurate and Private Multi-Camera Surveillance System on Time-Sensitive Networks," will be performed by the University of Connecticut. The project proposes a novel multi-camera surveillance system that leverages a network of distributed smart cameras to...

The Region VII Education Service Center (ESC) was awarded a $999,835 Project Grant from the U.S. Department of Justice's Bureau of Justice Assistance under the STOP (Students, Teachers, and Officers Preventing) School Violence Program (CFDA 16.839). The grant will fund the East Texas School Safety Initiative (ETSSI), which aims to improve safety and wellness conditions for the ESC's high-poverty school district partners in eastern Texas. The ETSSI program will provide an anonymous reporting...

The Department of Justice's Bureau of Justice Assistance awarded a $1,000,000 STOP School Violence Program grant to Avance Schools, Inc., a non-profit organization operating a consortium of 16 public charter schools serving 6,549 students in Los Angeles County, California. The grant funding will enable the implementation of several initiatives to prevent and reduce school violence, including: Deploying technology solutions such as an anonymous reporting system (WeTip) and an incident command...

This Project Grant award, totaling $998,790, was provided by the U.S. Department of Justice's Bureau of Justice Assistance under the STOP School Violence program (CFDA 16.839) to the Rapid City Area School District 51-4. The primary purpose of the project is to improve school security and create a supportive school climate through evidence-based solutions and a trauma-informed approach. Key activities include: Hiring two Multi-Tiered System of Supports (MTSS) coordinators and two social...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) SBIR Phase I Project Grant award of $274,996 to Algoface Inc., dated March 1, 2024, aims to develop a novel AI system called "Face Analyzer/Semantic Search" that bridges descriptive text and facial photos. Unlike conventional facial recognition systems, this technology aims to enable facial analysis and search without requiring a probe photo for comparisons. The key objectives are to construct a comprehensive training dataset, expand computer...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) will fund research to develop a novel biometric identification system for extended reality (XR) applications, such as virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR), and mixed reality (MR). The project aims to leverage natural head movement patterns captured by sensors in XR head-mounted devices to continuously and unobtrusively authenticate users, addressing critical security challenges in...

The Lansing School District in Lansing, Michigan was awarded a $1,000,000 Project Grant from the Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs Bureau of Justice Assistance under the STOP School Violence Program (CFDA 16.839) to implement the STOP School Violence Project from October 1, 2022 to September 30, 2025. The Project will provide comprehensive school security improvements and training to approximately 9,186 students and 1,225 staff across the District's 25 school campuses....