The Department of Justice, Office on Violence Against Women (OVW) is soliciting proposals for Grants to Enhance Culturally Specific Services for Victims of Domestic Violence, Dating Violence, Sexual Assault, and Stalking Program to provide national leadership on issues of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking.
Donor Name: Office on Violence Against Women (OVW)
State: All States
County: All Counties
U.S. Territories: American Samoa, Guam, Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, U.S. Virgin Islands, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 03/20/2023
Size of the Grant: $450,000
Grant Duration: 36 months
Details:
The Grants to Enhance Culturally Specific Services for Victims of Domestic Violence, Dating Violence, Sexual Assault, and Stalking Program (CSSP) supports the maintenance and replication of existing successful community-based programs providing culturally specific services to victims of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking, as well as the development of innovative culturally specific strategies to enhance access to services and resources for victims who face obstacles to accessing more traditional programs.
Pursuant to 34 U.S.C. § 12291(a)(9), culturally specific services means community-based services that include culturally relevant and linguistically specific services and resources to culturally specific communities. Pursuant to 34 U.S.C. § 12291(a)(8), culturally specific means primarily directed toward racial and ethnic minority groups (as defined in 42 U.S.C. § 300u-6(g)). Section 300u-6(g) defines “racial and ethnic minority groups” as “American Indians (including Alaska Natives, Eskimos, and Aleuts); Asian Americans; Native Hawaiians and other Pacific Islanders; Blacks; and Hispanics.
Purpose Areas
Funds under this program must be used for one or more of the following purposes:
- Working with state and local governments and social service agencies to develop and enhance effective strategies to provide culturally specific services to victims of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking.
- Increasing communities’ capacity to provide culturally specific resources and support for victims of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking crimes and their families.
- Strengthening criminal justice interventions, by providing training for law enforcement, prosecution, courts, probation, and correctional facilities on culturally specific responses to domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking.
- Enhancing traditional services to victims of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking through the leadership of culturally specific programs offering services to victims of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking.
- Working in cooperation with the community to develop education and prevention strategies highlighting culturally specific issues and resources regarding victims of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking.
- Providing culturally specific programs for children exposed to domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking.
- Providing culturally specific resources and services that address the safety, economic, housing, and workplace needs of victims of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, or stalking, including emergency assistance.
- Examining the dynamics of culture and its impact on victimization and healing.
Priority Areas
In FY 2023, OVW has five programmatic priorities, of which three are applicable to this program. Applicants are strongly encouraged, but not required, to address the priority areas identified below. Applications proposing activities in the following areas will be given special consideration:
- Advance racial equity as an essential component of ending sexual assault, domestic violence, dating violence, and stalking.
- In order to receive special consideration for addressing this priority, applicants must propose to address either or both Purpose Area 1 and/or Purpose Area 3 and demonstrate that the applicant will enter into the required community partnerships.
- Strengthen efforts to prevent and end sexual assault, including victim services and civil and criminal justice responses.
- In order to receive special consideration for addressing this priority, applicants must focus 50 percent or more of their grant-funded activities on non-intimate partner sexual assault. This can include prevention, outreach, medical forensic care, civil legal assistance, and victim services. Applicants should propose to use holistic healing practices that are traditional and specific to the survivor’s culture and demonstrate the relevant knowledge and expertise to integrate unique cultural practices into their service delivery. Applicants for this priority area may include an optional planning phase in their applications.
- 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 communities.
- In order to receive special consideration for addressing this priority, applicants must demonstrate the capacity to implement projects that will reach LGBTQ survivors within their culturally specific community. Applicants for this priority area may include an optional planning phase in their applications.
Funding Information
- Anticipated Total Amount to be Awarded Under Solicitation: $22,500,000
- Award Ceiling: $450,000
- Award Floor: $400,000
Period of Performance Duration (Months)
36
Eligibility Criteria
Eligible Applicants Native American tribal organizations (other than Federally recognized tribal governments), Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education, Nonprofits that do not have a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education, Other Eligible applicants are limited to: Private nonprofit/tribal organizations for which the primary purpose of the organization is to provide culturally specific services to “American Indians (including Alaska Natives, Eskimos, and Aleuts), Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians and other Pacific Islanders, Blacks, or Hispanics” in the United States or U.S. territories.
Ineligible Entities and Disqualifying Factors
Applications submitted by ineligible entities or that do not meet all program eligibility requirements will not be considered for funding. In addition, an application deemed deficient in one or more of the following categories may not be considered for funding:
- activities that compromise victim safety,
- out-of-scope activities,
- unallowable costs,
- pre-award risk assessment,
- completeness of application contents, and
- timeliness
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