Deadline: 21-Apr-22
The Office on Violence Against Women (OVW) is offering Grants to Enhance Culturally Specific Services for Victims of Domestic Violence, Dating Violence, Sexual Assault, and Stalking programs.
OVW is a component of the United States Department of Justice (DOJ). Created in 1995, OVW administers grant programs authorized by the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) and subsequent legislation and provides national leadership on issues of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking. OVW grants support coordinated community responses to hold offenders accountable and serve victims.
Purpose Areas
- 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.
Priority Areas
- Advance racial equity is an essential component of ending sexual assault, domestic violence, dating violence, and stalking.
- 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: 23
- Period of Performance Start Date: 10/1/22 12:00 AM
- Anticipated Maximum Dollar Amount of Awards: $300,000.00
- Period of Performance Duration (Months): 24
- Anticipated Total Amount to be Awarded Under Solicitation: $6,787,843.00
Eligibility Criteria
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The applicant organization also must meet the following eligibility requirements:
- Have an advisory board or steering committee and staffing that are reflective of the culturally specific community it serves.
- Note: To determine whether the advisory board or steering committee and staffing meet these criteria, OVW will consider whether the board or steering committee and staff include members with knowledge or experience relevant to the culturally specific community.
- If federal funds are used for filling any of these positions, organizations may consider an applicant’s knowledge or experience relevant to the culturally specific community, as well as language skills needed to work with a particular population, but organizations may not consider a person’s race and/or ethnicity as a basis for hiring decisions.
- Have demonstrated expertise in serving victims of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking or have entered into a formal partnership with an organization having such experience.
- The following entities are eligible to apply for this program: private nonprofit/tribal
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organizations for which the primary purpose of the organization as a whole 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
Note: If the culturally specific program is one division within a larger organization with other areas of substantive work.
For more information, visit Grants.gov.
For more information, visit https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=338615