Deadline: 7-Apr-22
The Office on Violence Against Women (VAW) is pleased to announce the 2022 Rural Domestic Violence, Dating Violence, Sexual Assault, and Stalking Program to support efforts to enhance the safety of rural victims of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking and supports projects uniquely designed to address and prevent these crimes in rural areas.
Purposes
Funds under this program must be used for one or more of the following purposes:
- To identify, assess, and appropriately respond to child, youth, and adult victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, dating violence, and stalking in rural communities, by encouraging collaboration among domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking victim service providers; law enforcement agencies; prosecutors; courts; other criminal justice service providers; human and community service providers; educational institutions; and health care providers, including sexual assault forensic examiners;
- To establish and expand nonprofit, nongovernmental, State, tribal, territorial, and local government victim services in rural communities to child, youth, and adult victims; and
- To increase the safety and well-being of women and children in rural communities, by (A) dealing directly and immediately with domestic violence, sexual assault, dating violence, and stalking occurring in rural communities; and (B) creating and implementing strategies to increase awareness and prevent domestic violence, sexual assault, dating violence, and stalking.
Funding Information
- Anticipated Maximum Dollar Amount of Awards: $950,000.00
- Anticipated Total Amount to be Awarded Under Solicitation: $32,000,000.00
- Period of Performance Duration (Months): 36
- Period of Performance Start Date: 10/1/22 12:00 AM
Eligibility Criteria
The following entities are eligible to apply for this program:
- States and territories: A “state” is any of the states, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, America Samoa, Guam, and the Northern Mariana Islands. Note, although the District of Columbia is included in the statutory definition of “state,” due to the rural service area program eligibility requirement, the District of Columbia is not eligible for this grant program.
- Indian tribes: An “Indian tribe” means a tribe, band, pueblo, nation, or other organized group or community of Indians, including any Alaska Native village or regional or village corporation, that is recognized as eligible for the special programs and services provided by the United States to Indians because of their status as Indians.
- Local governments: For purposes of this grant program, a local government is a unit of local government defined by statute as any city, county, township, town, borough, parish, village, or other general purpose political subdivision of a state.
- Nonprofit (public or private) entities, including tribal nonprofit organizations: A “tribal nonprofit organization” means a victim services provider that has as its primary purpose to assist Native victims of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, or stalking; and staff and leadership of the organization must include persons with a demonstrated history of assisting American Indian or Alaska Native victims of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, or stalking.
Note: Public nonprofit entities include state, tribal, territory, and local law enforcement and prosecutorial agencies and courts.
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