FY2010 Federal Funding for the G.R.E.A.T. Program

Since 2004, federal grant funds to assist in implementing the G.R.E.A.T. Program in your community have been offered annually by the Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA). The funds were awarded as grants through a competitive solicitation. Only state, local, and tribal jurisdictions or their respective law enforcement agencies—including school police, housing authority police, prosecution, probation, and parole agencies—possessing the power of arrest are eligible to receive G.R.E.A.T. grant awards.

In FY2010, funding for the program was reduced, and as a result, BJA will not issue a competitive solicitation. However, current G.R.E.A.T. agencies or agencies with staff who qualify to be certified as G.R.E.A.T. officers that want to start G.R.E.A.T. in their communities are encouraged to request funds to support their programs as part of their Justice Assistance Grant (JAG) Program applications.

The JAG Program, administered by BJA, is the leading source of federal justice funding to state and local jurisdictions. The JAG Program provides states, tribes, and local governments with critical funding necessary to support a range of program areas, including law enforcement, prosecution and court, prevention and education, corrections and community corrections, drug treatment and enforcement, planning, evaluation, technology improvement, and crime victim and witness initiatives. For more information about the JAG Program, please click the following link: http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/BJA/grant/jag.html.

Should G.R.E.A.T. grant funds become available in the future, information regarding the application process will be made available on both this Web site and on the BJA Web page at http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/BJA/grant/great.html.