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School Safety - Grants and Funding

This section contains links to Federal funding opportunities.

Catalog for Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA)
The online Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance provides access to a database of all Federal programs available to State and local governments (including the District of Columbia); federally -recognized Indian tribal governments; Territories (and possessions) of the United States; domestic public, quasi-public, and private profit and nonprofit organizations and institutions; specialized groups; and individuals.

21st Century Community Learning Centers (CLC)
The 21st Century CLC program is a key component of national efforts to keep children safe; provide academic enrichment and other recreational and enrichment opportunities, such as band, drama, art, and other cultural events for children; and provide lifelong learning opportunities for community members. The focus of this program, authorized under Title X, Part I, of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, is to provide expanded learning opportunities for participating children in a safe, drug-free, and supervised environment. The 21^st Century CLC program enables schools to stay open longer and provides safe places for homework centers, intensive mentoring in basic skills, counseling to prevent drug use and violence, assistance for middle school students who are preparing for college preparatory courses in high school, and enrichment in the core academic subjects. The program also gives students opportunities to participate in recreational activities, chorus, band, the arts, technology education programs, and services for children and youth with disabilities.

COPS in Schools Grant Program
The Community Oriented Policing Service (COPS) is continuing the effort to fund additional career law enforcement officers to engage in community policing with the COPS in Schools (CIS) grant program. CIS provides direct grants to agencies and jurisdictions to hire or rehire additional School Resource Officers (SROs) to work in and around schools as part of an overall plan to address crime and related problems through community policing. The COPS office requires that the officers deployed in SRO positions spend a minimum of 75 percent of their time in and around schools working on youth-related activities.

Federal Register at the National Archives and Records Administration
The Federal Register is a legal newspaper published every business day by the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA). It contains Federal agency regulations; proposed rules and notices; and Executive orders, proclamations, and other Presidential documents. The Federal Register informs citizens of their rights and obligations and provides access to a wide range of Federal benefits and opportunities for funding.

Justice Assistance Grant Program
This program allows States and local governments to support a broad range of activities to prevent and control crime and to improve the criminal justice system.

Juvenile Accountability Block Grant (JABG) Program
The JABG program was created by Congress to promote greater accountability in the juvenile justice system. The law authorizes the Attorney General to provide grants to the States to strengthen their policies, programs, and administrative systems that foster the creation of safe communities. The underlying supposition is that young people, their families, and the juvenile justice system must be accountable for improving the quality of life in every community.

Grants are made to eligible States on a formula basis (based on the State's population under age 18), with at least 75 percent of the funds, absent a waiver, to be passed through to or used by the States to benefit units of local government. JAIBG funds may be used to develop programs in 12 program purpose areas established by Congress, including juvenile gun and drug courts; controlled substance testing; interagency information-sharing; and the hiring of additional court personnel (judges, probation officers, public defenders, prosecutors).

Safe Schools/Healthy Students Initiative
The purpose of the "Safe Schools/Healthy Students" coordinated grant initiative is to help school districts and communities develop and implement comprehensive community-wide strategies for creating safe and drug-free schools and for promoting healthy childhood development so that students can grow and thrive without resorting to violence or other destructive behaviors. The U.S. Department will award three-year grants on a competitive basis. This program would streamline the application process by enabling eligible applicants to apply once for funds from several different agencies (Department of Education, Department of Health and Human Services, and the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention) that can be used to support a variety of different activities leading to the creation of safer schools. Funds will be available from a single interagency source for three purposes: to hire law enforcement personnel to provide security in schools; for early intervention and prevention programs designed to make schools and students safer and free of drugs; and for mental health services and early childhood development programs.

School Security and School Emergency Funding
National School Safety and Security Services is a private, independent school safety consulting corporation. We are independent, not product-affiliated, and not part of any "strategic alliance" affiliations, thereby making us free of outside influences and hidden agendas.

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