Deadline: 30-Jun-25
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), Office on Violence Against Women (OVW) is accepting applications for its funding program.
The Grants to Prevent and Respond to Domestic Violence, Dating Violence, Sexual Assault, Stalking, and Sex Trafficking Against Children and Youth Program (Children and Youth Program) supports comprehensive, community-based efforts to develop or expand prevention, intervention, treatment, and response strategies to address the needs of children and youth (ages 0-24) impacted by domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, stalking, and sex trafficking.
Purpose Area
- Purpose Area 1: Services and Training to Address Children Exposed to Domestic Violence, Dating Violence, Sexual Assault, Stalking, and Sex Trafficking (within ages 0-10)
- Purpose Area 2: Creating Safer Communities for Youth: Prevention, Intervention, Treatment and Response Services for Youth Impacted by Domestic Violence, Dating Violence, Sexual Assault, Stalking, and Sex Trafficking (within ages 11-24)
- Purpose Area 3: Providing School-Based Services: Prevention, Intervention, and Response to Dating Violence, Sexual Assault, Stalking, and Sex Trafficking (middle and high school students)
Funding Information
- Expected Total Amount of Funding: $9,500,000
- Expected Award Amount(s): Up to $500,000
Duration
- Expected Award Period(s): 36 months
Funding Priority
- 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.
- 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.
Eligibility Criteria
- Entities that are eligible to apply are:
- Units of Local Government or an Agency of a Unit of Local Government
- Any city, county, township, town, borough, parish, village, or other general purpose political subdivision of a State (or territory), or an agency thereof.
- 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 (as defined in, or established pursuant to, the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act, that is recognized as eligible for the special programs and services provided by the United States to Indians because of their status as Indians
- 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.
- Tribal Nonprofit Organizations
- 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
- Schools
- A public, charter, Tribal, or nationally accredited private middle or high school, a group of schools, or a school district.
- Units of Local Government or an Agency of a Unit of Local Government
For more information, visit Grants.gov.