Deadline: 9-Jun-25
The OVW Transitional Housing Assistance Grants for Victims of Domestic Violence, Dating Violence, Sexual Assault, and Stalking Program (OVW Transitional Housing Assistance Grant Program) funds transitional housing and support services for victims who are homeless or in need of transitional housing or other housing assistance as a result of a situation of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, or stalking.
Purpose Areas
- Funds under this program must be used for the following purposes, as stated in the OVW Transitional Housing Assistance Grant Program statute:
- Transitional housing, including funding for the operating expenses of newly developed or existing transitional housing.
- Short-term housing assistance, including rental or utilities payments assistance and assistance with related expenses such as payment of security deposits and other costs incidental to relocation to transitional housing.
- Support services designed to enable a minor, an adult, or a dependent of such minor or adult, who is fleeing a situation of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, or stalking to:
- Locate and secure permanent housing;
- Secure employment, including obtaining employment counseling, occupational training, job retention counseling, and counseling concerning re-entry into the workforce; and
- Integrate into a community by providing that minor, adult, or dependent with services, such as transportation, counseling, childcare services, case management, and other assistance.
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; and
- 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.
Program-Specific Priority Area
- OVW will give special consideration to applications proposing to support the housing needs of victims of non-intimate partner sexual assault.
- This priority area is intended to support organizations in offering sexual assault specific transitional housing services to victims.
- Organizations with existing sexual assault services or organizations seeking to develop new sexual assault specific services may apply for this priority area.
Funding Information
- Expected Total Amount of Funding $40,000,000
- Expected Award Amount(s)
- Applicants proposing support services only: up to $400,000
- Applicants proposing housing and support services or housing only: up to $500,000
Eligibility Criteria
- Eligible applicants are Tribal, state, and local governments and organizations with a documented history of effective work concerning domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, or stalking.
- Entities that are eligible to apply are:
- States and Territories: State governments, including the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa, the Virgin Islands, and the Northern Mariana Islands.
- Units of Local Government: Any city, county, township, town, borough, parish, village, or other general purpose political subdivision of a State (or territory)
- Indian Tribes: 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 based on their status as Indians.
- Other organizations that have a documented history of effective work concerning domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, or stalking.
For more information, visit Grants.gov.