Deadline: 16-May-23
The Office on Violence against Women (OVW) is pleased to announce the Sexual Assault Services Formula Program that directs grant dollars to states and territories to assist them in supporting rape crisis centers and other nonprofit, nongovernmental organizations or tribal programs that provide direct intervention and related assistance to victims of sexual assault, without regard to age.
Purpose Areas
- Funds under this program must be used for one or more of the following purposes:
- To provide intervention, advocacy, accompaniment, support services, and related assistance to:
- Adult, youth, and child victims of sexual assault.
- Family and household members of such victims.
- To provide intervention, advocacy, accompaniment, support services, and related assistance to:
- Those collaterally effected by the victimization, except by the perpetrator of such victimization.
- Specifically, funds under the SAS Formula Program must be used to support the establishment, maintenance, and expansion of rape crisis centers and other nongovernmental or tribal programs and projects to assist individuals who have been victimized by sexual assault, without regard to the age of the individual.
Funding Information
- Award Ceiling: $2,600,000
- Award Floor: $88,000
Out-of-Scope Activities
- The activities listed below are out of the program scope and will not be supported by this program’s funding.
- Research projects. Funds under this program may not be used to conduct research, defined 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. Applicants considering such assessments must refer to the OVW research decision tree in the Solicitation Companion Guide to ensure that the activity does not qualify as human subjects research. For information on distinguishing between research and assessments,
- Activities focused on prevention efforts and education (e.g., bystander intervention, social norms campaigns, presentations on healthy relationships, etc.).
- Criminal justice-related projects, including law enforcement, prosecution, courts, and forensic interviews.
- Criminal justice-related projects, including law enforcement, prosecution, courts, and forensic interviews
- Sexual Assault Forensic Medical Examiner programs.
- Sexual Assault Response Team coordination. Providing training to allied professions and the community (e.g., law enforcement, child protection services, prosecution, other community-based organizations, etc.).
- Providing training to allied professions and the community (e.g., law enforcement, child protection services, prosecution, other community-based organizations, etc.).
- Domestic violence services unrelated to sexual violence.
Eligibility Criteria
Eligible entities for this program are limited to any state of the United States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the United States Virgin Islands, American Samoa, Guam, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands. Specifically, only the designated state office may apply.
For more information, visit OVW.