Settlement-to-Safety Program
The money to stop student vaping already exists. We help you find it.
More than $2 billion in JUUL and Altria settlement funds, plus federal and state school-safety grants, is set aside for exactly this work. Most schools never claim their share.
Why this money exists
Companies were made to pay for the vaping crisis. That money is meant for your students.
JUUL and Altria settled thousands of lawsuits brought by states, school districts, and families over youth vaping, paying out more than $2 billion. The funds are earmarked for prevention, and districts are already spending them on detection technology.
The funding sources
Three pools of money worth knowing about
Each works differently, and rules vary by state and program. Here is the national picture. The specifics for your state come with your guide below.
Settlement funds
Allowable uses vary widely by state. Many programs center on education and cessation, so confirm detectors qualify before you build a budget around them.
Federal safety grants
These fund safety broadly. Whether vape detection fits depends on how your district frames its plan, so confirm eligibility for each program.
State safety & health grants
These move quickly and are easy to miss. They are exactly the kind of thing your state guide is built to flag.
Make your case
Getting the money is mostly about asking well
Four steps take a district from interested to funded. We give you language you can paste straight into an application.
Confirm eligibility
Check that detection is an allowable use for your state's funds.
Pick the program
Match the right pool of money to your timeline and project.
Build the justification
Frame the need, the cost, and the outcome in the program's terms.
Submit
File before the window closes, with the budget lines lined up.
The cost case writes itself
- Cost per student is small against a multi-year safety budget.
- Staff stop spending hours policing bathrooms.
- Incidents and the liability that comes with them go down.
Your state funding guide
Tell us your state. We will tell you where the money is.
Funding works differently in every state, so we do not publish a generic list. Send us where you are and we will put together a tailored rundown of the funding you can actually go after.
- ✓ A plain-English summary of live funding for your state
- ✓ The justification and budget-line template to reuse
- ✓ No quote required, no pressure. This is the helpful part.
Get your state funding guide
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Guidance only. Zeptive does not provide legal or grant-writing advice.
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Common questions
The honest answers
In some states, yes. Districts in California and Virginia have used settlement funds for detection. But allowable uses are set state by state, and many programs lean toward education and cessation. Your guide tells you where your state stands so you do not budget around money you cannot use.
Eligibility depends on your state's program and, for federal grants, on how your district frames its safety plan. Send us your state and we will tell you which pools you fit and what each one requires.
It varies by program. Settlement disbursements and grant cycles run on their own calendars, and some have hard deadlines. We flag the open windows for your state so timing does not catch you out.
Then we point you to the next pool, whether that is a federal safety grant, a state health or safety line, or an upcoming cycle. There is usually more than one path, and finding it is the whole point of the guide.
Yes. Tick the grant-writer box on the form and we will connect you with a vetted writer in your state. We refer, we do not endorse or guarantee outcomes, and no money changes hands for the introduction.
See what a funded Zeptive deployment looks like
Once the money is lined up, putting detection in your schools is the easy part. Let's walk through it.
Start with your state guide