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Funding: School Emergency Response and Crisis Management Grants
The U.S. Department of Education's Office of Safe and Drug Free Schools (DOE OSDFS) has, in recent years, funded Emergency Response and Crisis Management Grants for school emergency for school emergency management and crisis response. These grants may be used to fund training and internal capacity building for designing, facilitating, and evaluating tabletop exercises; school security threat assessments, evaluation of emergency guidelines, developing emergency response and crisis preparedness guidelines, facilitating emergency preparedness processes with school community partners, district and individual building level emergency preparedness and security management consultations, grief and trauma recovery issues, limited equipment needs, and professional development training related to school security, emergency preparedness, and related issues. National School Safety and Security Services has a solid record of working with grant recipients from the onset of this program on grant development and implementation after awards.
The deadline for the latest round of proposals closed on June 22, 2006. No new RFPs are expected in 2006. Interested individuals should monitor for announcements at this site and online in 2007 at: http://www.ed.gov/programs/dvpemergencyresponse/applicant.html
Federal Grants
NCJRS – National Criminal Justice Reference Service
http://www.ncjrs.gov/spotlight/school_safety/grants.html
Federal Grants Alert Website
http://www.grants.gov/
Department of Education
http://www.ed.gov/fund/grant/find/edlite-forecast.html
Department of Justice
http://www.usdoj.gov/10grants/index.html
Department of Health and Human Resources
http://www.os.dhhs.gov/grants/index.shtml
National School Safety and Security Services – Ken Trump
http://www.schoolsecurity.org/resources/funding.html
“COPS OFFICE ANNOUNCES $14.7 MILLION IN SCHOOL SAFETY GRANTS” http://www.cops.usdoj.gov/?Item=1590
State Grants
School districts, law enforcement agencies, and other youth-service providers should also contact their state government offices of education, criminal justice services (or attorney general), or similar agencies to identify grant programs related to school safety and security, youth violence prevention, and associated topics.
In addition to using Safe and Drug Free Schools Program or other grant funding, school districts and communities are encouraged to collaborate with their safe schools planning partners (criminal justice, community-based organizations, businesses, etc.) to provide resources for security training, security assessments, and related safe schools projects.
