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Gang Resistance Education and Training (GREAT) - Law Enforcement Grants

The application period for this grant is now closed.
Use the information below to help you start preparing for next year. For more funding opportunities for your department, please check our Currently Open Grants »

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How can the Gang Resistance Education and Training (GREAT) help your law enforcement department?

  • Implement a school-based, law-enforcement, and officer-instructed classroom curriculum for middle school students in life-skill competencies, gang awareness, and anti-violence techniques
  • Create safer schools and communities by building positive relationships among law enforcement, families, and young people
  • Help students in your community lower levels of victimization, develop more negative views about gangs and reduce risk-seeking behaviors
  • Increase association with peers involved in prosocial activities
  • Strengthen families through engaged parents and youth between the ages of 10 and 14 in cooperative lessons designed to facilitate better communication among family members and enhance family decision-making skills
  • CHIEF offers the free services of grant consultants to assist you throughout the application process **

For full details, eligibility requirements and application guidelines, go to the Gang Resistance Education and Training (GREAT) homepage »

Application Deadline: CLOSED

Sponsors/Parnters:
U.S. Department of Justice Bureau of Justice Assistance; U.S. Department of Homeland Security Federal Law Enforcement Training Center; U.S. Department of Justice Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives

What is the program?
The G.R.E.A.T. Program is a school-based, law enforcement officer-instructed classroom curriculum. The program's primary objective is prevention and is intended as an immunization against delinquency, youth violence, and gang membership.

The G.R.E.A.T. Program consists of four components: a 13-week middle school curriculum, an elementary school curriculum, a summer program, and families training.

Supported costs through this program include:

  • Salaries and fringe benefits;
  • Limited travel authorized under the GREAT program;
  • Capital expenditures;
  • Participation incentive and recognition awards for faculty, school administrators, community partners, and volunteer officers;
  • Costs related to programs at community events such as fairs and National Night Out;
  • Purchase of clothing for GREAT officers; and
  • Telecommunications equipment

There is a 10% match of the requested amount required for this program. Matching funds must be provided in in-kind contributions. This match requirement replaces the previous program requirement for donated officer/instructor time to the National Training Team

In 1991, the G.R.E.A.T. Program was developed through a combined effort of the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and the Phoenix Police Department.

In 1995, a five-year longitudinal evaluation was initiated which showed the following positive results for students who had completed the training: lower levels of victimization, more negative views about gangs, more favorable attitudes about police, reduction in risk-seeking behaviors, and increased association with peers involved in prosocial activities.

In 2004, Congress directed that overall program administration be transferred to the Office of Justice Programs, Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA). In October 2004, a grant was awarded by BJA to the Institute for Intergovernmental Research® (IIR) to provide national training coordination services and related tasks.

Since its inception in 1991, over 8,000 law enforcement officers have been certified as G.R.E.A.T. instructors and more than four million students have graduated from the G.R.E.A.T. Program.

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