Criminal Justice & Public Safety Funding
CAPCOG’s Criminal Justice Program is designated by the Office of the Governor’s Criminal Justice Division (CJD) for regional coordination efforts on the subject in the 10-county State Planning Region 12. The program provides technical assistance to applicants for CJD grant funding opportunities to include criminal justice, juvenile justice and victim services-related programming.
CAPCOG’s Criminal Justice Program and Criminal Justice Advisory Committee review and update, or create a regional strategic criminal justice plan every. The program also facilitates the grant application scoring an process through the Criminal Justice Advisory Committee. Each year application scoring done by the committee is based on local, regional and state priorities.
Office of the Governor, Criminal Justice Division, funding opportunities
Plan Year 2026
Plan Year (PY) 2026 began in September 2024 with an online stakeholder survey that helped set the funding priorities and review process for the funding opportunities that the OOG has asked CAPCOG to review and make recommendations on.
This year CAPCOG is coordinating the grant recommendation process for:
- Criminal Justice Program
- General Victim Assistance Direct Service Program
- Juvenile Justice and Truancy Prevention Grant Program
- Violence Against Women Justice and Training Program
- Violence Prevention (juvenile justice and school-based system)
- Training and Equipment for Law Enforcement (Criminal Justice System)
- Crisis Intervention Services (Mental Health & Substance Abuse)
- Case Management/Wrap Around Services (Mental Health & Substance Abuse)
- Crisis Intervention Services (Victims of Crime)
Listed below are links to the request for applications (RFA) for each funding opportunity and application deadline from the Office of the Governor. Further information about the CAPCOG process for assisting with applications, making applications and the reviewing and recommendation of applications.
Staff Contact
Karina Trevino
- Regional Planning & Services
- Community Development Coordinator
- 512-916-6012
- [email protected]
Current Activity
The CAPCOG Criminal Justice Advisory Committee is conducting its presentation and scoring meetings from March 24 to March 26.
See each meeting’s detail for a schedule of presenters.
Important Documents
Regional Strategic Criminal Justice Plan
PY 2026 Important Workshop Reminders
Criminal Justice Advisory Committee (CJAC)
Criminal Justice Program | Read the RFA | Available Date: Dec. 16, 2024 | Deadline Date: Feb. 13, 2025
General Victim Assistance Direct Service Program | Read the RFA | Available Date: Dec. 16, 2024 | Deadline Date: Feb. 13, 2025
Juvenile Justice and Truancy Prevention Grant Program | Read the RFA | Available Date: Dec. 16, 2024 | Deadline Date: Feb. 13, 2025
Violence Against Women Justice and Training Program | Read the RFA | Available Date: Dec. 16, 2024 | Deadline Date: Feb. 13, 2025
*It is possible that the OOG may change the RFAs. CAPCOG will update them as notified. Also check egrants.gov.texas.gov for updates.
Plan Year 2026 Timeline and Meetings
Each year, CAPCOG develops a timeline to help stakeholders and applicants plan their schedules around key grant related event dates and prepare for application related deadlines. The timeline runs from when CAPCOG started it stakeholder survey in September 2024 and goes to when CAPCOG must submit its prioritized list of grant recommendations — May 2025. The timeline contains exact and tentative dates. CAPCOG will update the timeline as the grant process continues.
Application & Summary Sheet Deadline – Feb. 13, 2025
Applications for the criminal justice funding opportunities are due to the state on egrants.gov.texas.gov on Feb. 13, 2025. The CAPCOG Project Summary Sheet, which provides the CAPCOG Criminal Justice Advisory Committee with valuable information about the project applications that they use determine the projects scores and their rank in each funding opportunity category.
The summary sheets can be submitted via an online form.
Application & Summary Sheet Deadline – Feb. 13, 2025
Applications for the criminal justice funding opportunities are due to the state on egrants.gov.texas on Feb. 13, 2025. The CAPCOG Project Summary Sheet, which provides the CAPCOG Criminal Justice Advisory Committee with valuable information about the project applications that they use determine the projects scores and their rank in each funding opportunity category.
The summary sheets can be submitted via an online form.
Presentation Signups – March 13
CAPCOG will notify every eligible applicant that its receives from the state about choosing a preferred time for presenting on their project to the CAPCOG CJAC. Applicants should supply their recommended times as soon as possible. CAPCOG will determine the final presentation schedule.
Presentations – March 24-26, 2025
CAPCOG will host all eligible applicants to present their projects to the CJAC. Each funding opportunity category will be presented on a particular day, which will be chosen based on the number of applicants per funding category. Applicants will have a certain amount of time to make their presentations and the CJAC will ask questions. More details and a schedule of presentations will be released at a later date.
CAPCOG Executive Committee Prioritization – April 9, 2025
The CAPCOG Executive Committee will review the scores and ranking of the project applications as submitted from the CJAC during its regular meeting. The board may change the prioritization ranking of any project application before it is submits the final ranking to the Office of the Governor before May 9, 2025
Other important dates are included in the PY 2026 Criminal Justice Timeline.
Grant Workshops – Jan. 7-8, 2025
CAPCOG held two grant workshops, one in-person and one virtual, for applicants to learn about the funding opportunities’ project eligibility and the application and review process. By attending the workshops, possible applicants earned points to their CAPCOG evaluation score. CAPCOG has made a recording of the virtual workshop available, so applicants — those who attended and those who didn’t — could refer to the information provided. Attendance details about about workshops are listed below the video.
Jan. 7, 2025 In-Person Workshop
10 a.m. to Noon
CAPCOG Pecan Room
6800 Burleson Road, Building 310, Suite 165
Austin, Tx 78744
Jan. 8 2025 Virtual Workshop
10 a.m. to Noon
Online Via Microsoft Teams
Sign up for the workshop.
Learn more about what will be presented in workshops.
RFAs Release – Dec. 16, 2025
The state released the Request for Applications for the Plan Year 2026 Criminal Justice Funding Opportunities on Friday, Dec. 16, 2025.
Get the RFAs from the State’s website.
Regional Funding Priorities for Plan Year 2026 Grants
September 2024
The CAPCOG PY 2026 Regional Needs and Priorities Survey was available for stakeholders of the 10-county region to complete from Sept. 16 to Oct. 3, 2024. The survey had four topics of discussion — juvenile justice and school-based systems, criminal justice systems, mental health/substance abuse treatment, and victims of crime.
Other Funding Opportunities
Check the following websites for possible other criminal justice-related funding opportunities:
- CAPCOG highlighted grants
- Grants.gov – Federal grant listings
- Egrants.gov.texas.gov – Texas, Office of the Governor grant listings
- United Way for Greater Austin
- Community Action Network
- Texas Council on Family Violence
- U.S. Department of Justice
- U.S. Office of Victims of Crime
- Texas Commission on Law Enforcement