Deadline: 16 February 2017
The Office on Violence Against Women (OVW) is a component of the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) is pleased to announce the call for applications for a program entitled “OVW FY 2017 Improving Criminal Justice Responses to Sexual Assault, Domestic Violence, Dating Violence, and Stalking Grant Program”.
The Improving Criminal Justice Responses to Sexual Assault, Domestic Violence, Dating Violence, and Stalking Grant Program (Improving Criminal Justice Responses Program), formerly known as the Grants to Encourage Arrest and Enforcement of Protection Orders Program (Arrest Program), is designed to encourage partnerships among state, local, and tribal governments, courts, victim service providers, coalitions and rape crisis centers, to ensure that sexual assault, domestic violence, dating violence, and stalking are treated seriously, requiring the coordinated involvement of the entire criminal justice system and community-based victim service organizations.
Funding Information
- Awards under the Improving Criminal Justice Responses Program for FY 2017 will be made for up to $900,000.
- The Improving Criminal Justice Responses Program typically makes awards in the range of $450,000 to $900,000 with an average award of $555,500.
- OVW estimates that it will make up to 58 awards for an estimated $30,000,000.
- The grant award period is 36 months. Budgets must reflect 36 months of project activity, and the total “estimated funding” on the SF-424 must reflect 36 months. Generally, the award period will start on October 1, 2017.
Priority Areas
- Strengthen and revitalize coordinated community response and multi-disciplinary teams, prioritizing those that meaningfully involve organizations and programs that focus on marginalized communities;
- Increase support for sexual assault, including services, law enforcement response and prosecution;
- Meaningfully increase access to OVW programming for specific underserved populations (based on race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, age, geographical region, etc.);
- Increase the use of promising or evidence-building practices, where available; and
- Integrate principles outlined in recent Department of Justice guidance on ‘Identifying and Preventing Gender Bias in Law Enforcement Response to Sexual Assault and Domestic Violence’ into policies, training, and supervision protocols and systems of accountability.
Eligibility Criteria
Eligible entities for this program are:
- States;
- Indian tribal governments;
- State, local, tribal, and territorial courts (including juvenile courts);
- units of local government
- victim services providers (including state, tribal, or territorial domestic violence or sexual assault coalitions and government rape crisis centers (in a state other than a territory))
How to Apply
Interested applicants can access the application package via given website.
Eligible Country: United States
For more information, please visit grants.gov.