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 services in domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking community-based programs providing culturally specific services, as well as the development of innovative culturally specific strategies and projects to enhance access to services and resources for victims who face obstacles to using more traditional services and resources.
Donor Name: Office on Violence Against Women
State: All States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 05/02/2024
Size of the Grant: $100,000 to $500,000
Grant Duration: 3 Years
Details:
Purpose Areas
Pursuant to, 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
- Advance equity and tribal sovereignty as essential components of ending sexual assault, domestic violence, dating violence, and stalking by improving outreach, services, civil and criminal justice responses, prevention, and support for survivors from historically marginalized and underserved communities, particularly those facing disproportionate rates or impacts of violence and multiple barriers to services, justice, and safety.
- Strengthen efforts to prevent and end sexual assault, including victim services and civil and criminal justice responses.
- Expand economic justice and financial advocacy for survivors of sexual assault, domestic violence, dating violence, and stalking, including as a tool for violence prevention.
Funding Information
- Estimated Total Program Funding: $22,500,000
- Award Ceiling: $450,000
- Award Floor: $400,000
Project Period
The award period is 36 months.
Eligibility Criteria
Pursuant to, the following entities are eligible to apply for this program: private nonprofit/tribal organizations for which the primary purpose of the organization is to provide culturally specific services to one or more of the following racial and ethnic communities
- American Indians (including Alaska Natives, Eskimos, and Aleuts);
- Asian Americans;
- Native Hawaiians and other Pacific Islanders;
- Blacks; and
- Hispanics
For additional information, see the Required Partnerships section of this solicitation.
- A faith-based organization or church providing culturally specific services focused on the needs of the Black community.
- A culturally specific community resource center focused on the needs of the Hispanic community.
- A culturally specific health center focused on the needs of the Native Hawaiian community.
- A culturally specific program that provides services focused on domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and/or stalking.
- An Urban Indian organization that provides culturally specific services for American Indians and Native Alaskans who do not reside on or near Tribal lands.
- A culturally specific organization that provides services focused on the needs of Black trans-women and girls who have experienced domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and/or stalking.
For more information, visit Grants.gov.
