Description: Funding to increase the capacity of existing accreditation bodies to provide services to agencies including small, rural, and tribal law enforcement and to provide accreditation services in states that currently do not have them.  

Sub Category Solicitations:

• Addressing Gaps in State Accreditation

  Description: funding to support the establishment of accreditation entities in states that do not have an accreditation body.

  Criteria: Is your agency one of the following: Institution of Higher Education, Non-Profit Organization, Faith Based Organization, Community Group, Public Government Agency, Federally Recognized Tribe and their Public Agencies, or For Profit (Commercial) Organization?

Description: Funds to support comprehensive de-escalation approach.

Sub Category Solicitation:

• Continuation and Expansion of Regional De-Escalation Training Centers:

  Description: Funds for continuation and expansion of regional centers for the delivery of de-escalation training.

  Criteria: Is your agency one of the following: Institution of Higher Education, Non-Profit Organization, Faith Based Organization, Community Group, Public Government Agency, Federally Recognized Tribe and their Public Agencies, or For Profit (Commercial) Organization?

Description: Funds to develop the capacity of law enforcement to implement community policing strategies to improves the identification and prioritization of community problems; build trust and relationships between law enforcement and the communities they serve; and enables an agency to build a culture toward accountability, transparency, open communication, and mutual trust.

Sub Category Solicitations:

• Officer Recruitment, Retention, and Workforce Diversification

  Description: Funds to support demonstration or pilot projects with creative methods for recruitment, retention and the advancement of diverse representation within law enforcement that include quantitative measures of success to better reflect the diversity of the community or to meet the standards of the 30x30 initiative.

  Criteria:  Is your organization a State, Local, Tribal, or Territorial Law Enforcement Agency?

• Underserved Populations

  Description: Funds to develop or enhance programs that meet the needs of underserved populations. Underserved populations may include youth, older adults, communities of color, persons experiencing homelessness, LGBTQ+ individuals, persons with disabilities (physical, mental, or intellectual or neurodivergent), undocumented immigrants, and persons in economically disadvantaged situations.

  Criteria: Is your organization a State, Local, Tribal, or Territorial Law Enforcement Agency?

• Building Trust and Legitimacy within the Community

  Description: Funds to support law enforcement agencies seeking to develop or enhance programs that focus on building trust and legitimacy between law enforcement and the communities they serve.

  Criteria:  Is your organization a State, Local, Tribal, or Territorial Law Enforcement Agency?

• Hate Crimes and Domestic Extremism

  Description: Funds to develop or enhance programs that aid in the prevention of and response to hate crimes and domestic extremism.

  Criteria: Is your organization a State, Local, Tribal, or Territorial Law Enforcement Agency?

• Community Violence Intervention

  Description: Funds to develop and enhance programs that engage the community in violence reduction efforts including street outreach, violence interrupters, hospital-based interventions, group violence interventions, and other strategies that provide wraparound services to communities

  Criteria: Is your organization a State, Local, Tribal, or Territorial Law Enforcement Agency?

• Open Topic Area:

  Description: Funds to propose projects that offer highly innovative solutions to address complex, locally identified community issues. Proposed project objectives and findings should prove useful to other law enforcement agencies nationally facing similar challenges.

  Criteria: Is your organization a State, Local, Tribal, or Territorial Law Enforcement Agency?

Description: Funds to support the hiring of career law enforcement officers to increase an agency's community policing capacity and crime prevention efforts.

Criteria: Is your organization a State, Local, Tribal, or Territorial Law Enforcement Agency?

Description: Provide training, programming, and support services in law enforcement emotional and mental health, including such things as suicide prevention, peer mentoring, clinical support, and family support services.

Sub Category Solicitation:

• LEMHWA National Level Resources, Training, and Technical Assistance

  Description: Funds to develop resources such as toolkits and publications; offer training; and provide assistance to state, local, tribal, and territorial law enforcement agencies across the country to implement successful mental health and wellness initiatives for officers and their families.

  Criteria: Is your agency one of the following: Institution of Higher Education, Non-Profit Organization, Faith Based Organization, Community Group, Public Government Agency, Federally Recognized Tribe and their Public Agencies, or For Profit (Commercial) Organization?

Description: Funds to support the implementation of crisis intervention teams, including embedding behavioral or mental health professionals with law enforcement agencies, training for law enforcement officers and embedded behavioral or mental health professionals in crisis intervention response, or a combination of these.

Criteria: Is your organization a State, Local, Tribal, or Territorial Law Enforcement Agency?

Description: Funds to improve security at schools and on school grounds in the award recipient’s jurisdiction through evidence-based school safety programs and technology.

Criteria:  Is your agency one of the following: State, Local, or Tribal Law Enforcement Agency, Unit of Local Government (e.g., county, city, school district), Federally Recognize Tribe and their Public Agencies, or a Public Government Agency?