Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS)

• Tribal Resources Grant Program 2006 (TRGP)
  The COPS Office announced the availability of funding under the COPS Tribal Resources Grant Program 2006 (TRGP 2006). Up to $15 million is available in FY2006 to address the serious needs of tribal law enforcement. The TRGP 2006 grant program is a comprehensive program that provides a variety of funding options including law enforcement training, uniforms, basic issue equipment, department-wide technology, and vehicles for new and existing officers. The program's aim is to enhance tribal law enforcement infrastructures and community policing efforts.
   
  
• Tribal Resources Grant Program (TRGP)
  TRGP is a broad, comprehensive program designed to meet law enforcement need in Native American communities. This program offers a wide variety of funding in areas such as hiring additional officers, law enforcement training, uniforms, basic-issue equipment, emerging technologies and police vehicles.
   
  
• Cops in Schools (CIS)
  The Cops in Schools grant program is designed to help law enforcement agencies hire new, additional school resource officers to engage in community policing in and around primary and secondary schools.
   
  
• Homeland Security Overtime Program (HSOP)
  HSOP was designed to supplement grantee agency's state or locally funded overtime budgets in order to pay officer overtime during homeland security training sessions and other law enforcement activities that are designed to help prevent acts of terrorism and other violent or drug related crimes.
   
  
• COPS Making Officer Redeployment Effective (MORE)
  The COPS MORE program expands the amount of time current law enforcement can spend on community policing by funding technology, equipment and support staff, including civilian personnel.
   
  
• Universal Hiring Program (UHP)
  UHP provides funding for the salaries and benefits of newly hired officers engaged in community policing.
   
  
• Mental Health and Community Safety Initiative for America Indian/Alaska Native Children, Youth and Families (MHCSI)
  MHCSI not only offers funding for the salaries and benefits of newly hired officers to serve as school resource officers or community resource officers, but also provides funding for law enforcement training, uniforms, basic issue equipment, and technology and vehicles for both new and existing police officers.
   
  
• COPS Safe Schools Grants
  COPS Safe School Grants help state and local agencies with delinquency prevention, community planning and development, school safety resources and technology development.
   
  
• COPS Technology Grants
  Technology Grants provide funding for the continued development of technologies and automated systems that help law enforcement agencies prevent, respond to and investigate crime.
   
   
  

• Gang Resistance Education and Training Program (G.R.E.A.T.)
  School based, law enforcement officer-instructed classroom curriculum. The programs primary objective is prevention and is intended as an immunization against delinquency, youth violence, and gang membership.
   
  
• Correctional Facilities on Tribal Lands Program
  This program provides federal resources to plan and construct correctional facilities on tribal lands for the incarceration of offenders subject to tribal jurisdiction. ** I am unsure if this grant is out-of-date as it may have only been awarded in 2005.
   
  
• Indian Alcohol and Substance Abuse Program
  Indian Alcohol and Substance Abuse Program's purpose is to reduce crimes associated with the distribution and use of alcohol and controlled substances in tribal communities. The program seeks to mobilize tribal communities to implement or enhance innovative, collaborative efforts that address public safety issues related to alcohol and substance abuse.
   
  
• Tribal Courts Assistance Program
  The purpose of this grant program is to assist tribal communities with law enforcement and justice system improvements. This grant helps to develop new tribal courts, improve the operations of existing courts, and provide funding for technical assistance and training of tribal court staff.
   
  
• Drug Court Discretionary Drug Program
  This program provides financial and technical assistance to develop and implement treatment drug courts that effectively integrate substance abuse treatment, mandatory drug testing, sanctions and incentives, and transitional services in a judicially supervised court setting with jurisdiction over nonviolent, substance abusing offenders.
   
  
• Mental Health Courts Program
  This program funds projects that seek to mobilize communities to implement innovative, collaborative efforts that bring system wide improvements to the way the needs of adult offenders with mental disabilities or illnesses are addressed.
   
  
• Comprehensive Approaches to Sex Offender Management (CASOM) Discretionary Grant Program
  Program provides funding to help jurisdictions effectively manage sex offenders in the community by implementing new or enhancing existing programs. Programs need to increase public safety and reduce victimization. Although CASOM focuses on the continuum of activities and services for sex offenders, grant funds must be targeted for community reintegration and community management of these offenders, not for institutional services.
   
  
• Bulletproof Vest Partnership (BVP)
  Since 1999 11,500 jurisdictions have participated, with $118 million in federal funds committed to support the purchase of an estimated 45,000 vests. This program provides up to 50 percent of the cost of each vest purchased or replaced for law enforcement agencies.
   
  
• Law Enforcement Tribute Act
  The purpose of the Act is to provide one time grants to help eligible jurisdictions complete permanent tributes to honor the men and women of law enforcement who have been killed or disabled in the line of duty.
   
  
• Serious and Violent Offender Reentry Initiative
  This initiative is a comprehensive effort that addresses both juvenile and adult populations of serious high-risk offenders. It provides funding to develop, implement, enhance, and evaluate reentry strategies that will ensure the safety of the community and the reduction of serious violent crime.
   
  
• Legal Assistance for Victims
  The Legal Assistance for Victims Grants are designed to strengthen legal assistance programs for victims of domestic violence, sexual assault and stalking.
   
  
• Education and Technical Assistance Grants to End Violence Against Women with Disabilities
  The Education and Technical Assistance Grants to End Violence Against and Abuse of Women with Disabilities Program is designed to improve services to individuals with disabilities who are victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, and stalking.
   
  
• Safe Havens: Supervised Visitation and Safe Exchange Grant Program
  The Safe Havens: Supervised Visitation and Safe Exchange Grant Program helps create safe places for visitation with and exchange of children in cases of domestic violence, child abuse, sexual assault, or stalking.
   
  
• STOP Violence Against Indian Women Discretionary Grant Program
  The STOP Violence Against Indian Women Grants are intended to develop and strengthen tribal law enforcement and prosecution efforts to combat violence against Native women and to develop and enhance services for victims of such crimes.
   
  
• Training Grants to Stop Abuse and Sexual Assault Against Older Individuals or Individuals with Disabilities Program
  The Training Grants to Stop Abuse and Sexual Assault Against Older Individuals or Individuals with Disabilities Program is designed to train law enforcement officers, prosecutors, and court personnel to recognize, address, investigate, and prosecute cases of elder abuse, neglect, and exploitation and violence against individuals with disabilities, including domestic violence and sexual assault, against older or disabled individuals.
   
  
• Domestic Violence Transitional Housing Assistance Program
  Grants made under this program support programs that provide assistance to individuals who are in need of transitional housing or housing assistance as a result of fleeing a situation of domestic violence, and for whom emergency shelter services or other crisis intervention services are unavailable or insufficient.
   
  
• Grants to Tribal Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault Coalitions
  Grants are available for the development and operation of nonprofit tribal domestic violence and sexual assault coalitions in Indian country.
   
  
• Grants to Encourage Arrest Policies and Enforcement of Protection Orders Program
  The Grants to Encourage Arrest Policies and Enforcement of Protection Orders are designed to encourage state, local, and tribal governments and state, local, and tribal courts to treat domestic violence as a serious violation of criminal law requiring the coordinated involvement of the entire criminal justice system.
   
  
• Rural Domestic Violence and Child Victimization Enforcement Grant Program
  The Rural Domestic Violence and Child Victimization Enforcement Grants are designed to enhance services available to rural victims and children by encouraging community involvement in developing a coordinated response to domestic violence, dating violence and child abuse.
   
  
• Tribal Youth Program
  The Tribal Youth Program (TYP) supports tribal efforts to prevent and control delinquency and improve the juvenile justice system for American Indian/Alaska Native (AI/AN) youth. With $8 million in FY 2006 funds, the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention will fund approximately 30 cooperative agreements to federally recognized tribes.
   
  
• Missing and Exploited Children Training and Technical Assistance Program
  The OJJDP seeks to provide funding for the continuation of this program which has been in existence since 1995.
   
  
• AMBER Alert Training and Technical Assistance Program
  OJJDP seeks to continue the training, technical assistance, evaluation, and program management effort for the AMBER Alert Initiative, which has been implemented by all 50 states.
   
  
• Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) Training and Technical Assistance Program
  OJJDP seeks to continue the training , technical assistance, evaluation, and program management efforts for the ICAC program- a task force that helps law enforcement agencies develop and effective response to the online exploitation of children and the trafficking of child pornography.
   
  
• Building Community Capacity to Reduce the Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children and Youth
  OJJDP is requesting proposals to expand community capacity to address the commercial sexual exploitation of children and youth in the United States through training and technical assistance for professionals who work with children and youth at risk of commercial sexual exploitation.