Deadline: 2 March 2017
The Office on Violence against Women (OVW), U.S. Department of Justice, is currently seeking applications for its Technical Assistance Outreach Initiative to Strengthen Indian Tribes’ Capacity to Address Violence against Women.
Its aim is to maximize resources and extend technical assistance beyond the limited number of tribes that receive OVW grant funding. Through this initiative, OVW seeks to build the capacity of tribal governments, tribal justice system professionals, and tribal victim services organizations to respond effectively to sexual assault, domestic violence, dating violence and stalking. Specifically, OVW wants to focus technical assistance support towards tribes which have had no or marginal success in accessing grant funding through the OVW Tribal Affairs Division or other OVW grant programs, in an effort to enhance victim services and assist tribal criminal justice systems to more effectively address victim safety and offender accountability.
Purpose Areas
In FY 2017, funds under the Tribal TA Outreach Initiative must comprehensively include all the following purposes:
- Coordinated Community Responses (CCR) – Provide TA to potential tribal grantees to enhance and support efforts to successfully plan, implement, and sustain comprehensive CCR which address sexual assault, domestic violence, dating violence and stalking in tribal communities. Address baseline victim safety issues such as emergency shelter, effectively written orders of protection, and offender accountability.
- Professional Training – Provide training for tribal criminal justice system employees and professions, such as law enforcement, prosecutors, judges, court personnel, community and system-based victim service providers and other tribal organizations that serve tribal populations. Training topics may include, but should not be limited to system collaboration and coordination, victim safety and autonomy, primary aggressor and writing effective orders of protection.
- Emergency Shelter/Safe Home – Provide TA support for the critical sustainability of emergency shelter/safe homes where resources are scarce and no other options for emergency placement of victims and their families exist.
- Alaska Native Villages – Provide culturally specific strategies for TA that must be tailored to meet the unique needs of Alaska Native communities.
Award Information
- Applicants should not exceed the award amounts listed in this solicitation and should carefully consider the resources needed to successfully implement the proposed project. The award under the Tribal TA Outreach Initiative for FY 2017 will be made for up to $700,000.
- OVW has the discretion to award grants for greater or lesser amounts than requested and to negotiate the scope of work and budget with applicants prior to award of a grant.
- OVW estimates that it will make one award for an estimated $700,000.
Eligibility Criteria
Eligible entities for this program are National, tribal, statewide or other nonprofit organizations with the capacity to provide nationwide training and technical assistance.
How to Apply
Applications must be submitted online via given website.
Eligible Country: United States
For more information, please visit Grants.gov.