Funding available for anti-heroin/meth efforts, LEO mental health, school violence prevention, and career officer hiring
COPS police grants are open! The 5 DoJ grants below can enhance your area’s community policing efforts for:
- Anti-heroin task forces
- Anti-methamphetamine programs
- Officer mental health and wellness programs
- School violence prevention programs
- Hiring/rehiring career law enforcement officers
Anti-Heroin Task Force (AHTF) Program
The COPS Office Anti-Heroin Task Force (AHTF) Program is a competitive grant solicitation, open to state law enforcement agencies with multijurisdictional reach and interdisciplinary team (e.g. task force) structures, in states with high per capita rates of primary treatment admissions.
Approximately $35 million in funding is available for FY 2021 AHTF. Each grant is three years (36 months) in duration, and there is no local match. Each grant recipient may receive a maximum of $4 million.
Deadline: June 10, 2021 at 7:59 p.m. EDT
COPS Anti-Methamphetamine Program (CAMP)
The COPS Anti-Methamphetamine Program (CAMP) is a competitive grant solicitation, open to state law enforcement agencies with multijurisdictional reach and interdisciplinary team (e.g. task force) structures, in states with high seizures of precursor chemicals, finished methamphetamine, laboratories, and laboratory dump seizures.
Approximately $15 million in funding is available for FY 2021 CAMP. Each grant is three years (36 months) in duration, and there is no local match.
Applicants must request at least $1 million, and recipients may receive a maximum of $2 million.
Deadline: June 10, 2021 at 7:59 p.m. EDT
Law Enforcement Mental Health and Wellness Act (LEMHWA) Program
The Fiscal Year 2021 Law Enforcement Mental Health and Wellness Act (LEMHWA) Program funds are used to improve the delivery of and access to mental health and wellness services for law enforcement through the implementation of peer support, training, family resources, suicide prevention, and other promising practices for wellness programs.
The FY21 LEMHWA program will fund projects that develop knowledge; increase awareness of effective mental health and wellness strategies; increase the skills and abilities of law enforcement; and increase the number of law enforcement agencies and relevant stakeholders using peer support, training, family resources, suicide prevention, and other promising practices for wellness programs.
Deadline: June 3, 2021 at 7:59 p.m. EDT
School Violence Prevention Program (SVPP)
The Students, Teachers, and Officers Preventing School Violence Act of 2018 (STOP School Violence Act of 2018) gave the COPS Office authority to provide awards directly to States, units of local government, or Indian tribes to improve security at schools and on school grounds in the jurisdiction of the grantee through evidence-based school safety programs and technology.
Up to $53 million in funding is available for FY 2021 SVPP. Each award is three years (36 months) in duration for a maximum of $500,000 per award. There is a local match requirement of at least 25 percent.
Deadline: June 22, 2021 at 7:59 p.m. EDT
COPS Hiring Program (CHP)
The CHP program has approximately $140 million in funding for Fiscal Year 2021.
The COPS Hiring Program (CHP) is a competitive grant program designed to provide funding directly to law enforcement agencies to hire and/or rehire additional career law enforcement officers in an effort to increase their community policing capacity and crime prevention efforts.
Anticipated outcomes of the CHP program awards include engagement in planned community partnerships, implementation of projects to analyze and assess problems, implementation of changes to personnel and agency management in support of community policing, and increased capacity of agency to engage in community policing activities.
All local, state, and tribal law enforcement agencies that have primary law enforcement authority are eligible to apply.
Deadline: June 22, 2021 at 7:59 p.m. EDT
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With so many grants available, it can be hard to figure out what’s best for your law enforcement agency. We’re here to help: