Grant Details

The State Homeland Security Program (SHSP) is a core assistance program that provides funds to build capabilities at the State, local, tribal, and territorial levels, to enhance our national resilience to absorb disruptions and rapidly recover from incidents both natural and manmade as well as to implement the goals and objectives included in State homeland security strategies and initiatives in their State Preparedness Report (SPR).

Activities implemented under SHSP must support terrorism preparedness by building or enhancing capabilities that relate to the prevention of, protection from, or response to, and recovery from terrorism in order to be considered eligible. However, many capabilities which support terrorism preparedness simultaneously support preparedness for other hazards. Major Missouri grant programs under SHSP include:

• Regionalization: Missouri's Regionalization of Homeland Security program is focused on establishing a common-sense, logical governance structure and process to facilitate local, community level engagement in homeland security related decisions. Fourteen core disciplines at the county/local level have been identified to create a Regional Homeland Security Oversight Committee (RHSOC) for 10 geographic regions throughout the state. Each RHSOC is responsible for setting grant funding priorities and strategies for its specific region.
• Law Enforcement Terrorist Prevention Activities (LETPA): LETPA focuses upon the prevention of terrorist attacks and provides law enforcement and public safety communities with funds to support intelligence gathering and information sharing. States are required to ensure that at least 25% of their SHSP award funds and at least 25% of their UASI award funds are dedicated toward law enforcement terrorism prevention-oriented planning, organization, training, exercise, and equipment activities.

In developing applications for SHSP, recipients are encouraged to consider 2024 priority areas:

1. Enhancing the protection of soft targets/crowded places
2. Enhancing information and intelligence sharing and analysis
3. Combating domestic violent extremism
4. Enhancing cybersecurity
5. Enhancing community preparedness and resilience
6. Enhancing election security

The Missouri Department of Public Safety (DPS)/Office of Homeland Security (OHS) is pleased to announce the funding opportunity for the FY 2024 State Homeland Security Program (SHSP) Regionalization. This state administered, but federally funded program, is made available through the Grants Programs Directorate (GPD) within the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). 

SHSP assists state and local efforts to build, sustain, and deliver the capabilities necessary to prevent, prepare for, protect against, and respond to acts of terrorism.  

For FY 2024, DHS is focused on the criticality of information sharing and collaboration to building a national culture of preparedness and protecting against terrorism and other threats to our national security. The threats to our nation have evolved during the past two decades. We now face continuous cyber threats by sophisticated actors, threats to soft targets and crowded places, and threats from domestic violent extremists who represent one of the most persistent threats to the nation. Therefore, for FY 2024, DHS has identified six priority areas related to the most serious threats to the nation.