NIJ FY 2026 Research and Evaluation on School Safety
NIJ will fund rigorous research and impact/process evaluations of K-12 school safety programs, especially anonymous threat reporting systems and school threat assessment/intervention teams.
⚑ Cooperative Agreement · Applicants are strongly encouraged to work closely with educators, school stakeholders, and communities · Requires letters of support confirming secondary data access and explanation of dataset matching · Rigorous outcome/impact evaluation plus process/implementation evaluation expected
This is an education/justice evaluation topic with some fit for the team’s causal and program-evaluation strengths, especially if the project centers on K-12 school safety interventions rather than direct policing or clinical safety work. It is adjacent to Deven Carlson’s institutional education-policy evaluation line and David Hogg’s intervention/program evaluation work, but it is not squarely in the team’s core risk/energy/weather/nuclear program.
JUDGED AGAINST THE ROSTER'S PUBLICATION DOSSIER · GPT-5.4-MINI · 2026-10-10
Unit fits — one characterization, each unit's own rules
| IPPRA | 100 strong | portfolio topics: public_health, emergency_disaster_resilience; signature methods: surveys longitudinal, community engaged, policy analysis; social/behavioral work is central; funds evaluation research |
| Physical Sciences & Engineering (demo) | 40 partial | technical depth: substantial; funds evaluation research (capped) |
| Tom Love Innovation Hub | 10 none | deep-tech content; no commercialization signal |
Description
This is a notice of funding opportunity (NOFO) for NIJ FY 2026 Research and Evaluation on School Safety. This opportunity will support rigorous research and evaluation projects to fill key gaps regarding K-12 safety, specifically focusing on the development, deployment, and operation of: • Anonymous reporting systems for threats of school violence, including mobile telephone applications, hotlines, and internet websites • School threat assessment and intervention teams that include coordination with law enforcement agencies and school personnel This NOFO seeks rigorous outcome/impact evaluations paired with process/implementation evaluations to assess the effectiveness of activities supported by STOP1 School Violence Act (SVA) projects administered by the Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) and the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS Office) School Violence Prevention Program (SVPP) or similar programs from other sources that align with STOP SVA's goals. To develop practical recommendations for K-12 school safety, applicants are strongly encouraged to work closely with educators, school stakeholders, and communities to develop questions, identify solutions, collect data, and interpret findings. Applicants should: • Clearly describe complex factors and how they will be measured. • Include letters of support confirming secondary data access and explain how datasets will be matched to support the analyses proposed. • Describe data limitations, how they will be addressed, and their potential impact on findings.
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