Deadline: 15-Feb-22
The Office on Violence Against Women has announced the applications for the Justice for Families Program Solicitation to improve the response of the civil and criminal justice system to families with a history of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking, or in cases involving allegations of child sexual abuse.
The program supports the following activities for improving the capacity of courts and communities to respond to families affected by the targeted crimes: court-based and court-related programs; supervised visitation and safe exchange by and between parents; training for people who work with families in the court system; civil legal services; and the provision of resources in juvenile court matters.
Purpose Areas
Funds under this program must be used for one or more of the six purposes discussed. Although the statute contains eight distinct purpose areas, OVW is limiting applicants to addressing only purpose areas 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 8. OVW is interested in funding projects that take a coordinated approach to helping families victimized by domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking as they navigate the justice system. To help achieve this coordinated approach, applicants may propose either a standard project or a comprehensive project.
- Standard Project: Applicants must propose activities either under purpose area 1 (supervised visitation) or 5 (courts). If an applicant is proposing to provide supervised visitation/safe exchange services (purpose area 1), the applicant must propose activities under at least one additional purpose area.
- Comprehensive Project: Applicants must propose activities under purpose areas 1 (supervised visitation), 5 (courts), and 6 (civil legal services). Applicants may include additional purpose areas in a comprehensive project application but are required to include purpose areas 1, 5, and 6.
Priority Areas
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: 24
- Anticipated Maximum Dollar Amount of Awards: $650,000.00
- Period of Performance Duration (Months): 36
- Anticipated Total Amount to be Awarded Under Solicitation: $13,000,000.00
- This program typically makes awards in the range of $550,000 – $650,000. OVW estimates that it will make up to 24 awards for an estimated $18,000,000. Funding levels under this program for FY 2022 are:
- Standard projects: up to $550,000 for the entire 36 months.
- Comprehensive projects: up to $650,000 for the entire 36 months.
Eligibility Criteria
- States, meaning any of the states and the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa, the Virgin Islands, and the Northern Mariana Islands.
- Units of local government, meaning any city, county, township, town, borough, parish, village, or other general purpose political subdivision of a state, the following are not considered units of local government and are not eligible to apply as the lead applicant: police departments, pretrial service agencies, district or city attorneys’ offices, sheriffs’ departments, probation and parole departments, and universities.
- Courts (including juvenile courts), meaning any civil or criminal, tribal, and Alaska Native Village, federal, state, local or territorial court having jurisdiction to address domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault or stalking, including immigration, family, juvenile, and dependency courts. This does not include prosecutors’ offices.
- Indian tribal governments, meaning a tribe, band, pueblo, nation, or other organized group or community of Indians, including any Alaska Native village or regional or village corporation, that is recognized as eligible for the special programs and services provided by the United States to Indians because of their status as Indians or the governing body of an Indian tribe.
- Nonprofit organizations, meaning an organization that is described in section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 and is exempt from taxation.
- Legal services providers, meaning entities that provide legal assistance to victims of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking. This does not include for-profit organizations.
- Victim service providers, meaning nonprofit, nongovernmental or tribal organizations or rape crisis centers, including state or tribal coalitions, that assist or advocate for domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, or stalking victims, including domestic violence shelters, faith based organizations, and other organizations, with a documented history of effective work concerning domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, or stalking. Victim service providers must provide direct services to victims of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, or stalking as one of their primary purposes and have a demonstrated history of effective work in this field. Culturally specific organizations, tribal organizations. and population specific organizations serving underserved communities that meet the definition of ‘victim service provider’ are eligible to apply.
For more information, visit https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=337423