Deadline: 12-Apr-23
The Office on Violence Against Women is inviting applications for Grants to Enhance Culturally Specific Services for Victims of Domestic Violence, Dating Violence, Sexual Assault, and Stalking Program to support the maintenance and replication of existing successful community-based programs providing culturally specific services to victims of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking, as well as the development of innovative culturally specific strategies to enhance access to services and resources for victims who face obstacles to accessing more traditional programs.
Purpose Areas
- Pursuant to 34 U.S.C. § 20124(b)(2), funds under this program must be used for one or more of the following purposes:
- Working with state and local governments and social service agencies to develop and enhance effective strategies to provide culturally specific services to victims of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking.
- Increasing communities’ capacity to provide culturally specific resources and support for victims of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking crimes and their families.
- Strengthening criminal justice interventions, by providing training for law enforcement, prosecution, courts, probation, and correctional facilities on culturally specific responses to domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking.
- Enhancing traditional services to victims of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking through the leadership of culturally specific programs offering services to victims of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking.
- Working in cooperation with the community to develop education and prevention strategies highlighting culturally specific issues and resources regarding victims of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking.
- Providing culturally specific programs for children exposed to domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking.
- Providing culturally specific resources and services that address the safety, economic, housing, and workplace needs of victims of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, or stalking, including emergency assistance.
- Examining the dynamics of culture and its impact on victimization and healing.
Note: Applicants wishing to address Purpose Area 6 or 8 must do so in conjunction with one of the other program purpose areas. Proposals focusing only on these two purpose areas will be removed from consideration.
OVW Priority Areas
- In FY 2023, OVW has five programmatic priorities, of which three are applicable to this program. Applicants are strongly encouraged, but not required, to address the priority areas identified. Applications proposing activities in the following areas will be given special consideration:
- Advance racial equity as an essential component of ending sexual assault, domestic violence, dating violence, and stalking.
- Strengthen efforts to prevent and end sexual assault, including victim services and civil and criminal justice responses.
- Improve outreach, services, civil and criminal justice responses, prevention, and support for survivors of sexual assault, domestic violence, dating violence, and stalking from underserved communities, particularly LGBTQ communities.
Funding Information
- Anticipated Maximum Dollar Amount of Awards $450,000.
- Period of Performance Duration (Months) 36.
Out-of-Scope Activities
- The activities listed are out of the program scope and will not be supported by this program’s funding. See also the list of unallowable costs in the Funding Restrictions section of this solicitation.
- Research projects: Funds under this program may not be used to conduct research, defined in 28 C.F.R. § 46.102 as a systematic investigation designed to develop or contribute to generalizable knowledge. Surveys and focus groups, depending on their design and purpose, may constitute research and therefore be out-of-scope. Prohibited research does not include assessments conducted for internal improvement purposes only.
- Family Violence: Grant funds may not be used to directly address child abuse, or other family violence issues such as violence perpetrated by a child against a parent, parent against a child, or violence perpetrated by a sibling against another sibling.
- Services for Children: Services can only be offered to children who are witnesses to or victims of violence if those services are provided in conjunction with services being provided to the child’s parent or guardian who is a victim of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, or stalking.
- Legal Services: Grant funds may not be used for criminal defense of victims charged with crimes, except for representation in post-conviction relief proceedings with respect to the conviction of a victim relating to or arising from domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, or stalking. Additionally, representation in tort cases is not permitted with grant funds.
Eligibility Criteria
- Pursuant to 34 U.S.C. § 20124(c), the following entities are eligible to apply for this program: private nonprofit/tribal organizations for which the primary purpose of the organization is to provide culturally specific services to one or more of the following racial and ethnic communities:
- American Indians (including Alaska Natives, Eskimos, and Aleuts);
- Asian Americans;
- Native Hawaiians and other Pacific Islanders;
- Blacks; and
- Hispanics.
- The items listed are examples of culturally specific programs that are eligible to apply. This list is not exhaustive. For additional information, see the Required Partnerships section of this solicitation.
- A faith-based organization or church providing culturally specific services focused on the needs of the Black community.
- A culturally specific English as a Second Language (ESL) Program focused on the needs of the Hispanic community.
- A culturally specific health center focused on the needs of the Native Hawaiian community.
- A culturally specific program that provides services focused on domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and/or stalking.
Note: If the culturally specific program is one division within a larger organization with other areas of substantive work (for example, a domestic violence organization with a division that focuses on Hispanic victims), the organization is not eligible because providing culturally specific services is not the primary purpose of the organization.
For more information, visit Grants.gov.