BJA FY 17 Violent Gang And Gun Crime Reduction Program (PSN) | BJA 2017 11482

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The BJA FY 17 Violent Gang and Gun Crime Reduction Program, also known as Project Safe Neighborhoods (PSN), is a discretionary federal grant program from the U.S. Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA), focused on making communities safer by driving down violent crime tied to gangs, firearms, and repeat violent offenders. The core idea behind PSN is that long-term reductions in serious violence are most likely when federal, state, and local partners work as a single coordinated team rather than as separate agencies running disconnected efforts. In each federal judicial district, this unified approach is led by the local U.S. Attorney, who serves as the central convener and strategic lead.

A defining requirement of the program is the formation and operation of a PSN task force in the district. The U.S. Attorney is responsible for establishing this collaborative group and ensuring it includes key federal, state, and local law enforcement partners along with other community members who can contribute to enforcement, intervention, and prevention strategies. The task force is meant to focus attention and resources on the places experiencing the highest levels of violence, with an emphasis on identifying the most pressing gun and gang drivers in those neighborhoods and directing coordinated responses toward the people and groups most responsible for serious violence.

PSN is structured around five design features that guide how funded work should be planned and carried out: partnerships, strategic planning, training, outreach, and accountability. Partnerships reflect the expectation of active coordination among law enforcement, prosecutors, and community stakeholders. Strategic planning points to using deliberate, locally informed approaches to target the district's most urgent violence problems. Training supports the idea that partners need shared skills, common practices, and updated knowledge to be effective. Outreach emphasizes communication with communities and stakeholders to build legitimacy, awareness, and engagement around violence reduction efforts. Accountability highlights measuring progress and results so the strategy stays focused on outcomes, can be adjusted when needed, and demonstrates impact.

The grant has an award ceiling of $500,000, with BJA expecting to make about 20 awards under this solicitation. The opportunity is identified under Funding Opportunity Number BJA-2017-11482 and is associated with CFDA 16.609 (law, justice, and legal services). The original application closing date for this FY 2017 solicitation was March 28, 2017, and the opportunity was created on January 11, 2017.

Eligibility is limited and tied directly to the PSN structure within each U.S. Attorney's Office district. Eligible applicants include PSN team fiscal agents for U.S. Attorney Office districts and federally recognized Indian tribal governments (as determined by the Secretary of the Interior). A key condition is that any fiscal agent must be certified by the relevant U.S. Attorney's Office (USAO). Entities that can serve as USAO-certified fiscal agents include states, units of local government, educational institutions, faith-based and other community organizations, private nonprofit organizations, and federally recognized Indian tribal governments. The certification requirement is central because it ensures the applicant is formally aligned with the district's PSN task force and the U.S. Attorney-led strategy rather than operating independently. Additional details about becoming a certified fiscal agent were provided through BJA's PSN certification process webpage at www.bja.gov/programs/psn/certprocess.html.

• The Bureau of Justice Assistance in the law, justice and legal services sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "BJA FY 17 Violent Gang And Gun Crime Reduction Program (PSN)" and is now available to receive applicants.
• Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 16.609.
• This funding opportunity was created on 2017-01-11.
• Applicants must submit their applications by 2017-03-28. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
• Each selected applicant is eligible to receive up to $500,000.00 in funding.
• The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 20 candidate(s).
• Eligible applicants include: Others.

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