Deadline: 8-Jul-25
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), Office on Violence Against Women (OVW) is accepting submissions for the Training and Services to End Abuse in Later Life Program (Abuse in Later Life Program).
The Training and Services to End Abuse in Later Life Program (Abuse in Later Life Program) supports a comprehensive approach to addressing abuse in later life, including domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, stalking, neglect, abandonment, economic abuse, or willful harm committed against victims who are 50 years of age or older (hereinafter “older victims”).
Priorities
- Applications that fare well in merit review and substantively address one or more of the priorities listed below, to the extent consistent with the program’s authorizing statute, may receive priority consideration for funding:
- Measures to combat human trafficking and transnational crime, particularly crimes linked to illegal immigration and cartel operations, that support safety and justice for trafficking victims who have also suffered domestic violence, sexual assault, dating violence, and/or stalking; and
- Projects to provide victim services, especially housing, and improve law enforcement response in rural and remote areas, Tribal nations, and small towns that often lack resources to effectively combat domestic violence and sexual assault.
Purpose Areas
- Program funds must be used to:
- Provide training programs to assist law enforcement agencies, prosecutors, agencies of States or units of local government, population specific organizations, victim service providers, victim advocates, or relevant officers in Federal, Tribal, State, territorial, and local courts in recognizing and addressing instances of abuse in later life;
- Provide or enhance services for victims of abuse in later life;
- Establish or support multidisciplinary collaborative community responses to victims of abuse in later life; and
- Conduct cross-training for law enforcement agencies, prosecutors, agencies of States or units of local government, attorneys, health care providers, population specific organizations, faith- based leaders, victim advocates, victim service providers, courts, and first responders to better serve older victims.
Funding Information
- Expected Total Amount of Funding $13,000,000
- Expected Award Amount(s) $450,000 to $750,000
Duration
- Expected Award Period(s) The award period is 48 months for new grantees and 36 months for continuation grantees.
Eligibility Criteria
- Entities that are eligible to apply are:
- States and Territories
- State governments, including the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa, the Virgin Islands, and the Northern Mariana Islands.
- Units of Local Government
- Any city, county, township, town, borough, parish, village, or other general purpose political subdivision of a State (or territory).
- The following are not considered units of local government:
- Police departments;
- Pretrial service agencies;
- District or city attorneys’ offices;
- Sheriffs’ departments;
- Probation and parole departments;
- Shelters;
- Nonprofit, nongovernmental victim service agencies including faith-based or community-based organizations; and
- Universities.
- Indian Tribal Governments
- The governing body of an Indian Tribe; or
- A Tribe, band, pueblo, nation, or other organized group or community of Indians, including any Alaska Native Village or regional or village corporation.
- Tribal Organizations
- The governing body of any Indian Tribe;
- Any legally established organization of Indians which is controlled, sanctioned, or chartered by such governing body of a Tribe or Tribes to be served, or which is democratically elected by the adult members of the Indian community to be served by such organization and which includes the maximum participation of Indians in all phases of its activities; or
- Any Tribal nonprofit organization.
- States and Territories
For more information, visit Grants.gov.