BJA FY 19 Public Safety Partnership National Training and Technical Assistance Program | BJA 2019 16069

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The BJA FY 19 Public Safety Partnership (PSP) National Training and Technical Assistance Program is a discretionary federal grant opportunity from the U.S. Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA), focused on strengthening how law enforcement agencies and prosecutors respond when a community is hit with a sharp rise in violent crime. The core idea behind PSP is to create a more structured, hands-on model of federal and local collaboration, where participating jurisdictions receive coordinated support rather than disconnected or piecemeal assistance. This program funds the national training and technical assistance (TTA) capacity that helps deliver that support to PSP sites over a sustained period.

PSP is described as a three-year engagement for participating jurisdictions, designed to boost the operational capacity of state, tribal, and local partners by accelerating access to Department of Justice resources and aligning those resources around practical implementation. The TTA delivered through this program is organized into seven core areas that reflect common drivers and response needs in violent crime spikes: illegal gun violence, federal partnerships, crime analysis, technology, criminal justice collaboration, investigations, and community engagement. In practice, this means the funded provider(s) are expected to help sites improve strategy and execution across both enforcement and prevention-oriented functions, such as better gun violence interventions, tighter coordination with federal partners, stronger analytical targeting of hotspots and repeat offenders, improved use of tools and systems, more unified work among police, prosecutors, and other justice stakeholders, stronger investigative practices, and more credible engagement with the community to support legitimacy and cooperation.

The award mechanism is a cooperative agreement, which typically signals that DOJ expects substantial involvement in guiding the work, aligning deliverables to PSP priorities, and coordinating federal resources across participating sites. The opportunity was released on March 19, 2019, with an original application deadline of May 7, 2019. BJA anticipated making up to two awards under this solicitation, with an award ceiling of $3,000,000, indicating a relatively high-capacity national scope for the organizations selected to provide training and technical assistance.

Eligible applicants include a broad range of organizations capable of delivering national-level TTA: public and state-controlled institutions of higher education, private institutions of higher education, federally recognized Native American tribal governments, nonprofit organizations with 501(c)(3) status (other than institutions of higher education), and for-profit organizations other than small businesses. The funding activity categories associated with the opportunity reflect the cross-cutting nature of PSP work, touching law, justice and legal services, information and statistics, community development, and workforce/training elements that often accompany capacity-building initiatives.

Overall, this grant opportunity is best understood as an investment in a national provider (or providers) that can rapidly deploy expertise, tools, and coordinated assistance to jurisdictions facing escalating violence, helping them build durable systems for partnership, analysis, investigations, technology use, and community trust while aligning local strategies with federal resources through the PSP framework.

• The Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Assistance in the community development, employment, labor and training, humanities (see cultural affairs in cfda), information and statistics, law, justice and legal services sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "BJA FY 19 Public Safety Partnership National 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): 16.738.
• This funding opportunity was created on Mar 19, 2019.
• Applicants must submit their applications by May 07, 2019. (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 $3,000,000.00 in funding.
• The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 2 candidate(s).
• Eligible applicants include: Public and State controlled institutions of higher education, Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized), Nonprofits having 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.

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