NOW OPEN:
The FY2025 Coordinated Tribal Assistance Solicitation (CTAS) Notice of Funding Opportunity is open from December 19, 2024, until March 25, 2025.
*IMPORTANT: Applications will be submitted in a two-step process, each with its own deadline.
STEP 1: Submit an SF-424 and an SF-LLL in Grants.gov.
GRANTS.GOV APPLICATION DEADLINE: TUESDAY, MARCH 18, 2025, at 11:59 PM ET.
STEP 2: Submit the full application including attachments in JustGrants.
JUSTGRANTS APPLICATION DEADLINE: TUESDAY, MARCH 25, 2024, at 8:59 PM ET.
DETAILS ABOUT THE PROGRAM
- Enables Tribes, Alaska Native villages, and Tribal consortia to submit a single application for seven of the Department of Justice’s competitive grant programs (additional information and helpful resources)
CTAS Purpose Area #1: Tribal Resources Grant Program
- Expands the implementation of community policing and meets the most serious needs of law enforcement in Tribal Nations
- Hire or re-hire career law enforcement officers and Village Public Safety Officers
- Procure basic equipment and training to assist in the initiation or enhancement of Tribal community policing efforts
CTAS SUCCESS STORY
CTAS in Action: Nebraska and Kansas-based Native American police use DOJ grant to upgrade technology, improve public safety
Since 2010, the Department of Justice has awarded over 2,000 grants totaling more than $943 million in CTAS grant funds to hundreds of American Indian and Alaska Native communities. The tribes are using these funds to enhance law enforcement; combat domestic violence, dating violence, stalking and sex trafficking; bolster justice systems; prevent and control juvenile delinquency; strengthen the juvenile justice system; and serve sexual assault and elders.
Click here to read the Iowa Tribe of Kansas and Nebraska’s full success story
PROGRAM DOCUMENTS
- Notice of Funding Opportunity
- Tribal Access Program
- CRI-TAC Tribal Brochure
- CRI-TAC Flyer
- Volunteer Engagement for American Indian and Alaska Native Missing Persons Cases Flyer
- Consultant Contractor Fact Sheet
- Indirect Cost Rate Fact Sheet
- Sole Source Justification Fact Sheet
- PA1 Question Set (PDF)
- PA1 Question Set (DOCX)
- Demographic Form Questions (PDF)
- Demographic Form Questions (DOCX)
- Purpose Area Fact Sheet Compendium/Booklet
- Resource Guide
- CTAS Budget Worksheet
- Allowable/Unallowable Costs List
- Background Investigations FAQs
- Basic Training Fact Sheet
- SRO Training Fact Sheet
- SRO Fact Sheet
- Guidance for Understaffed Law Enforcement Agencies Operating below Budgeted Strength under the COPS Hiring Program (CHP) and Tribal Resources Grant Program—Hire (TRGP–Hire)