The Office on Violence Against Women is accepting applications for Rural Domestic Violence, Dating Violence, Sexual Assault, and Stalking Program to support efforts to enhance the safety of rural victims of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking and supports projects uniquely designed to address and prevent these crimes in rural areas.
Donor Name: Office on Violence Against Women
State: All States
County: All Counties
U.S. Territories: Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, American Samoa, Guam, and the U.S. Virgin Islands
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 04/07/2022
Size of the Grant: $950,000
Grant Duration: 3 years
Details:
Purpose Areas
Funds under this program must be used for one or more of the following purposes:
- To identify, assess, and appropriately respond to the child, youth, and adult victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, dating violence, and stalking in rural communities, by encouraging collaboration among domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking victim service providers; law enforcement agencies; prosecutors; courts; other criminal justice service providers; human and community service providers; educational institutions; and health care providers, including sexual assault forensic examiners;
- To establish and expand nonprofit, nongovernmental, State, tribal, territorial, and local government victim services in rural communities to the child, youth, and adult victims; and
- To increase the safety and well-being of women and children in rural communities, by– (A) dealing directly and immediately with domestic violence, sexual assault, dating violence, and stalking occurring in rural communities; and (B) creating and implementing strategies to increase awareness and prevent domestic violence, sexual assault, dating violence, and stalking.
Funding Information
Funding levels under this program for FY 2022 are:
- Continuation applications are limited to $750,000 for the entire 36 months.
- Continuation applications with a 75% or more focus on sexual assault are limited to $950,000 for the entire 36 months.
- New applicants are limited to $500,000 for the entire 36 months.
- New applicants with a 75% or more focus on sexual assault are limited to $700,000 for the entire 36 months.
Priority Areas
OVW is interested in supporting the priority area(s) identified below. Applications proposing activities in the following areas will be given special consideration:
- Advance racial equity is an essential component of ending sexual assault, domestic violence, dating violence, and stalking – To qualify for this priority area, applicants must partner with culturally specific community-based organizations or programs and include project activities that specifically engage, promote, and serve culturally specific communities. New applications currently providing culturally specific, community-based domestic violence, sexual assault, dating violence, and stalking services are encouraged to apply. Continuation applications that are not currently serving culturally specific populations are encouraged to build capacity in their organizations to serve culturally specific underserved populations within their service areas. Applicants should consider:
- Creating outreach and educational opportunities in your communities,
- Hiring staff with experience serving culturally specific clients, and/or
- Establishing partnerships with culturally specific organizations that may or may not have experience addressing
- these issues and offering cross-training opportunities as part of the collaboration.
- Strengthen efforts to prevent and end sexual assault, including victim services and civil and criminal justice responses.
- Sexual assault applications focus primarily on responding to non-intimate partner sexual assault, including sexual assault across the lifespan. This includes prevention, outreach, offender intervention, medical forensic care, civil legal assistance, and victim services. Applicants are encouraged to provide one or more of the aforementioned activities to provide comprehensive services that address the physical, social, emotional, and spiritual needs of survivors of sexual assault and their families. Examples of activities include, but are not limited to:
- Organizational capacity building to enhance sexual assault services within the organization.
- Developing policies and procedures directly related to serving sexual assault victims.
- A mission, strategic plan, and specific goals are established for their sexual violence programs.
- Providing legal and medical advocacy.
- Providing crisis intervention services.
- Sexual assault focused prevention, intervention and awareness outreach.
- Staffing additional sexual assault advocate positions.
- Implementation of the Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) standards in working with incarcerated victims.
- Providing training for Sexual Assault Nurse Examiners (SANE).
- Creating or enhancing SANE programs.
- Establishing or enhancing Sexual Assault Response Teams (SART).
- Providing short and long-term holistic services that address a survivor’s physical, emotional, psychological, and spiritual health.
- Providing services that meet the long-term and short-term needs of sexual violence survivors.
- Culturally specific activities that meet the needs of sexual violence survivors.
- Training related to responding to the holistic and healing needs of rural survivors of sexual violence.
- Sexual assault applications focus primarily on improving the criminal justice response to sexual assault, including the investigation, charging, and prosecution of sexual assault crimes. These programs must include a partnership with sexual assault service providers to ensure that survivors receive comprehensive support throughout the criminal justice process. Applicants are encouraged to enhance investigation and prosecution of sexual assault crimes and provide advocacy throughout the criminal justice process. Examples of activities may include, but are not limited to:
- Sexual assault training for law enforcement and prosecutors.
- Support sexual assault investigator or prosecutor positions.
- Enhancement or creation of law enforcement and/or prosecutor sexual assault advocate positions;
- Providing criminal legal advocacy training for advocates.
- Sexual assault applications focus primarily on responding to non-intimate partner sexual assault, including sexual assault across the lifespan. This includes prevention, outreach, offender intervention, medical forensic care, civil legal assistance, and victim services. Applicants are encouraged to provide one or more of the aforementioned activities to provide comprehensive services that address the physical, social, emotional, and spiritual needs of survivors of sexual assault and their families. Examples of activities include, but are not limited to:
Eligibility Criteria
- City or township governments, County governments, Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized), 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, private institutions of higher education, state governments.
- Eligible applicants are limited to States and territories, Indian tribes, local governments, and nonprofit (public or private) entities, including tribal nonprofit organizations in the United States or U.S. territories.
- A “state” is any of the states, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, America Samoa, Guam, and the Northern Mariana Islands. Note, although the District of Columbia is included in the statutory definition of “state,” due to the rural service area program eligibility requirement, the District of Columbia is not eligible for this grant program.
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