Deadline: 04-Mar-2025
The Training and Services to End Abuse in Later Life Program supports a comprehensive approach to addressing abuse in later life, including domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, stalking, neglect, abandonment, economic abuse, or willful harm committed against victims who are 50 years of age or older (hereinafter “older victims”).
Mandatory Purpose Areas
- Program funds must be used to:
- Provide training programs to assist law enforcement agencies, prosecutors, agencies of States or units of local government, population specific organizations, victim service providers, victim advocates, or relevant officers in Federal, Tribal, State, territorial, and local courts in recognizing and addressing instances of abuse in later life;
- Provide or enhance services for victims of abuse in later life;
- Establish or support multidisciplinary collaborative community responses to victims of abuse in later life; and
- Conduct cross-training for law enforcement agencies, prosecutors, agencies of States or units of local government, attorneys, health care providers, population specific organizations, faith based leaders, victim advocates, victim service providers, courts, and first responders to better serve older victims.
Funding Information
- Expected Total Amount of Funding: $13,000,000
- Expected Award Amount(s): $450,000 to $750,000
Eligibility Criteria
- 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 (34 U.S.C. § 12291(a)(37))
- Units of Local Government
- Any city, county, township, town, borough, parish, village, or other general purpose political subdivision of a State (or territory)
- The following are not considered units of local government:
- Police departments;
- Pretrial service agencies;
- District or city attorneys’ offices;
- Sheriffs’ departments;
- Probation and parole departments; and
- Universities.
- Population Specific Organizations
- A nonprofit, nongovernmental organization that primarily serves members of a specific underserved population and has demonstrated experience and expertise providing targeted services to members of that specific underserved population.
- States and Territories
For more information, visit Grants.gov.