Project Grant 2018YSBX0063

The Assumption Parish School District was awarded a $468,750 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 will fund school safety programs and technology to improve security at schools and on school grounds in Assumption Parish, Louisiana through September 2025. As part of its community policing strategies, the COPS Office provides funding to support organizational...

The Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) awarded a $997,275 STOP School Violence (CFDA 16.839) project grant to the Caddo Parish School Board (CPSB) in Shreveport, Louisiana. The grant will fund a 3-year comprehensive violence prevention initiative across 9 targeted school sites (5 elementary, 2 elementary/middle, and 2 middle) serving 38,832 students. Key products and services to be delivered include: Implementing an ecological, grassroots violence prevention program using trauma-informed and...

The Caddo Parish School Board (CPSB) in Louisiana has been awarded a $1,000,000 Cooperative Agreement under the U.S. Department of Justice's Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) STOP School Violence Program (CFDA 16.839). The funding will enable CPSB to partner with the non-profit Volunteers for Youth Justice (VYJ) to expand and enhance schools' capacity to prevent, intervene, and address high levels of violence in schools and the surrounding community. To facilitate...

The federal Project Grant award of $375,000.00 from the U.S. Department of Justice's Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) Office under the Public Safety Partnership and Community Policing Grants program (CFDA 16.710) will be used by the Caddo Parish School Board to implement evidence-based programs to improve school security and promote a positive learning environment. The funding, awarded on October 1, 2024 and set to conclude by September 30, 2027, will be used to enhance security at...

The Paris Union School District 95 was awarded $307,381 under the Public Safety Partnership and Community Policing Grants program administered by the Department of Justice's Community Oriented Policing Services Office. The three-year project grant will fund school safety programs and technology to improve security at schools and on school grounds in Paris, Illinois through September 2025. Specifically, the district will implement evidence-based programs to enhance school security and promote a...

The Department of Education Office of Elementary and Secondary Education awarded a $133,200 Project Grant to Southern University Agricultural & Mechanical College under the School Safely National Activities federal grant program (CFDA 84.184). The grant will support the School Emergency Response to Violence (Project SERV) program from July 15, 2022 to June 30, 2023. Project SERV aims to improve student safety and well-being during and after the school day by providing emergency response...

The Terrebonne Parish Sheriff's Office was awarded a $100,317 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 will fund school safety programs and technology improvements at schools in Houma, Louisiana from October 2022 through September 2025. As part of the School Violence Prevention Program, the Sheriff's Office will implement evidence-based programs and practices...

The El Paso Independent School District (EPISD) was awarded a $1,000,000 Project Grant under the U.S. Department of Justice's STOP School Violence Program (CFDA 16.839). The grant will fund the implementation of the Safe Horizons program, an innovative initiative aimed at promoting a safe and nurturing environment for students in four of EPISD's most economically disadvantaged and lowest-performing schools. The program draws on the Building Assets and Reducing Risks (BARR) model to develop a...

The Education Service Center Region XV (ESC15) in San Angelo, Texas was awarded a $915,651 Project Grant from the Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs Bureau of Justice Assistance under the STOP School Violence Program (CFDA 16.839). ESC15 will lead the Texas School Safety Expansion Project in collaboration with ESC12 to provide trauma-informed, healing-centered interventions to over 100,000 K-12 students across 45 school districts in West-Central Texas. Services will include a...

The Alief Independent School District was awarded a $486,000 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. Funding will support the School Violence Prevention Program, which aims to improve school security and foster a positive learning environment through evidence-based programs. Alief ISD will implement...