Deadline: 21-Apr-22
The Office on Violence Against Women is pleased to announce the Reduce Domestic Violence, Dating Violence, Sexual Assault, and Stalking on Campus Program to encourage institutions of higher education to develop and strengthen effective security and investigation strategies to combat domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking on campus, develop and strengthen victim services in cases involving such crimes on campus, and develop and strengthen prevention education and awareness programs.
Purpose Areas
- To provide personnel, training, technical assistance, data collection, and other equipment concerning the increased apprehension, investigation, and adjudication of persons committing domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking on campus.
- To develop, strengthen, and implement campus policies, protocols, and services that more effectively identify and respond to the crimes of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking, including the use of technology to commit these crimes, and to train campus administrators, campus security personnel, and personnel serving on-campus disciplinary or judicial boards on such policies, protocols, and services.
- To implement and operate education programs for the prevention of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking.
- To develop, enlarge, or strengthen victim services programs and population-specific services on the campuses of the institutions involved, including programs providing legal, medical, or psychological counseling, for victims of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking, and to improve the delivery of victim assistance on campus. To the extent practicable, such an institution shall collaborate with any victim service providers in the community in which the institution is located. If appropriate victim services programs are not available in the community or are not accessible to students, the institution shall, to the extent practicable, provide a victim services program on campus or create a victim services program in collaboration with a community-based organization. The institution shall use not less than 20 percent of the funds made available through the grant for a victim services program provided by this paragraph, regardless of whether the services are provided by the institution or in coordination with community victim service providers.
- To create, disseminate, or otherwise provide assistance and information about victims' options on and off-campus to bring disciplinary or other legal action, including assistance to victims in immigration matters.
- To develop, install, or expand data collection and communication systems, including computerized systems, linking campus security to the local law enforcement to identify and track arrests, protection orders, violations of protection orders, prosecutions, and convictions concerning the crimes of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking on campus.
- To provide capital improvements (including improved lighting and communications facilities but not including the construction of buildings) on campuses to address the crimes of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking.
- To support improved coordination among campus administrators, campus security personnel, and local law enforcement to reduce domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking on campus.
- To develop or adapt and provide developmental, culturally appropriate, and linguistically accessible print or electronic materials to address both prevention and intervention in domestic violence, dating violence, sexual violence, and stalking.
- To develop or adapt population-specific strategies and projects for victims of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking from underserved populations on campus.
Priority
- 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 and immigrant communities.
Funding Information
- Anticipated Number of Awards: 50
- Period of Performance Start Date: 10/1/22 12:00 AM
- Anticipated Total Amount to be Awarded Under Solicitation: $16,000,000.00
- Anticipated Maximum Dollar Amount of Awards: $750,000.00
- Period of Performance Duration (Months): 36
Eligibility Criteria
- Admits as regular students only persons having a certificate of graduation from a school providing secondary education, or the recognized equivalent of such a certificate; or students who have completed secondary school education in a home school setting that is treated as a home school or private school under state law;
- is legally authorized within such state to provide a program of education beyond secondary education;
- provides an educational program for which the institution awards a bachelor's degree or provides not less than a 2-year program that is acceptable for full credit toward such a degree, or awards a degree that is acceptable for admission to a graduate or professional degree program;
- is a public or other nonprofit institution; and
- is accredited by a nationally recognized accrediting agency or association, or if not so accredited, is an institution that has been granted pre-accreditation status by such an agency or association that has been recognized by the Secretary of Education for the granting of pre-accreditation status, and the Secretary of Education has determined that there is satisfactory assurance that the institution will meet the accreditation standards of such an agency or association within a reasonable time.
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