Formula Grant 2020CKWX0007

The Manchester Police Department (MPD) in New Hampshire received a $537,124 Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Justice's Bureau of Justice Assistance under the Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant (JAG) Program (CFDA 16.738). The funding will enable MPD to implement an investigative checklist strategy via a mobile phone application to address a recent increase in violent and property crime and improve investigative clearance rates. Key deliverables include developing an...

The Pima County Attorney's Office received a $398,091 Project Grant award from the Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs Bureau of Justice Assistance under the Justice and Mental Health Collaboration Program (JMHCP, CFDA 16.745). The funds will support continuation and expansion of the Consolidated Misdemeanor Problem-Solving Court (CMPS) program through September 2025. CMPS is a pre-adjudication diversion program for individuals arrested for minor crimes who have co-occurring...

The Mesa Police Department (MPD) received a $187,368 Project Grant from the U.S. Department of Justice's Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS Office) under the Public Safety Partnership and Community Policing Grants program (CFDA 16.710). The funding will support the implementation of the Boulder Crest Foundation's Posttraumatic Growth (PTG) based "Struggle Well" training program over a two-year period. The key components of the grant include: conducting 12 five-day...

The Miami-Dade Police Department (MDPD) Forensic Services Division Crime Laboratory has been awarded a $899,388 Formula Grant from the Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA), as part of the Forensic DNA Capacity Enhancement and Backlog Reduction (CEBR) Program (CFDA 16.741). The grant funds will be used to hire seven positions, including four Criminalists to process DNA cases and two Police Crime Scene Technicians to support the Forensic Biology Section. Additionally, the funding will support...

The South COM Dispatch received a $276,000 project grant award from the Department of Justice Offices Boards and Divisions Community Oriented Policing Program under the Public Safety Partnership and Community Policing Grants (CFDA 16.710) program. The funding will support the acquisition of effective equipment, technologies, and interoperable communications to assist in responding to and preventing crime. This will improve police effectiveness and information sharing among law enforcement, local...

The Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) in Washington, DC received a $3.125 million project grant award from the Department of Justice's Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) program to advance the practice of community policing through hiring additional law enforcement officers. The purpose of the COPS Hiring Program (CHP) is to increase the jurisdiction's community policing capacity to prevent and disrupt crime and violence by hiring and rehiring career law enforcement officers. The...

The Defense Health Agency awarded Massachusetts General Hospital a $582,732 project grant under the Military Medical Research and Development program to conduct research titled "Metabolic Targets to Overcome Chemoradiation Resistance in Genotype-Defined Non-Small Cell Lung Carcinoma." The CFDA number for the program is 12.420. Through this award spanning July 1, 2023 to June 30, 2025, MGH will investigate medical solutions for lung cancer treatment in military service members and the...

The General Hospital Corporation, doing business as Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), has been awarded a $1,000,236.00 Project Grant from the Department of the Army Medical Command under the Military Medical Research and Development program (CFDA 12.420). The grant, effective April 1, 2024 through March 31, 2028, will fund research to "UNLOCK THE CTDNA MUTATIONAL PATTERNS FOR EARLY CANCER DETECTION AND NONINVASIVE BIOMARKERS." As a leading academic medical center and research...

The University of California, Davis (UC Davis) received a $1,000,000 Cooperative Agreement award from the Bureau of Justice Assistance's Harold Rogers Prescription Drug Monitoring Program (CFDA 16.754) to strengthen the capacity of the California Prescription Drug Monitoring Program (PDMP) to generate and implement updated, evidence-based patient safety alerts. The project objectives are to: 1) analyze linked PDMP and mortality data to identify prescribing patterns associated with overdose risk,...

The U.S. Department of Defense's Military Medical Research and Development program (CFDA 12.420) awarded a $2,424,067 project grant to The General Hospital Corporation, doing business as Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), for the "DEVELOPMENT OF ANTI-DYT1 DYSTONIA GENE EDITING THERAPIES". The grant, with a performance period from Jul 1, 2024 to Jun 30, 2028, will support MGH's research to develop new gene editing therapies for treating DYT1 dystonia, a rare neurological disorder. As...