FY 2017 Comprehensive School Safety Initiative
Solicitation Title: FY 2017 Comprehensive School Safety Initiative
Funding Amount: Award Ceiling: $62,000,000
Sponsor Deadline: Friday, March 24, 2017
Solicitation Link: https://nij.gov/funding/Documents/solicitations/NIJ-2017-11147.pdf
Solicitation Number: OMB No. 1121-0329
Overview
<p>The Comprehensive School Safety Initiative (CSSI) funds rigorous research to produce practical knowledge that can improve the safety of schools and students. The initiative is carried out through partnerships between researchers, educators and other stakeholders, including law enforcement and mental health professionals. Projects funded under the CSSI are designed to produce knowledge that can be applied to schools and school districts across the nation for years to come. This solicitation includes multiple funding categories with different expectations and requirements to accomplish the purposes of the CSSI. This announcement will fund (5) focus categories: Category 1) Developing Novel and Innovative School Safety Programs, Practices, and Strategies.) Category 2) Demonstration, Evaluation and Validation Tests for School Safety. Category 3) Expanding the use of Effective Interventions through Scaling-up. This solicitation will also include funding categories to support research on causes and consequences of school safety issues as well as assessments of school safety issues in tribal communities. Category 4) Research on School Safety. Category 5) Understanding School Safety in Tribal Schools. For the purpose of MLFTC - category 4 may be appropriate (Category 4: Research on School Safety<br>Competition ID: NIJ-2017-11431). The purpose of category 4 is to produce research findings with implications for school safety practice and policy with project periods of performance that are two-to-three years. This category is a combination of two categories from previous CSSI solicitations: “Causes and Consequences of School Violence” and the “Shorter Term Studies on School Safety.” In this category, NIJ is particularly interested in research that investigates common, but Understudied practices and strategies related to school safety.</p>
Solicitation Limitations: <p>Applications should feature close coordination involving SEAs or LEAs (including public charter schools that are recognized as LEAs) and a researcher or research organization that has considerable experience conducting research and evaluation, preferably, in school settings. NIJ recommends that the research organization serve as the applicant and make one or more subawards to participating SEAs or LEAs. The goal of the partnership should be to implement school safety activities that are paired with objective, high-quality research and evaluation activities with emphasis on fidelity to the implementation of the program and rigorous research designs.</p> Other Information:<p>Projects under this category will support research to improve our understanding of the potential<br>root causes and related factors that contribute to school violence, as well as the impact and<br>consequences of school violence. The studies should have the potential to produce advances in<br>theory, methodology, and/or understanding of important constructs with clear potential<br>implications for policy or practice related to school and student safety. Studies will answer<br>questions about why school violence occurs, where and when it occurs, who is involved, and<br>how schools and people are affected. Applicants are encouraged to consider a variety of<br>research questions and research methods to improve the understanding of violence in schools,<br>among students, and directed at students. Studies that can be implemented within shorter<br>timeframes might include high-quality case studies or mixed methods comparative research.<br>They may incorporate key member interviews, focus groups, secondary data analysis, surveys,<br>document analysis, and other methods focused on the challenges, opportunities, and lessons<br>learned from efforts to increase school and student safety under different circumstances.</p>Last Updated:
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