The Indiana Criminal Justice Institute (ICJI) is now accepting applications for the 2025-2027 Domestic Violence Prevention and Treatment (DVPT) Fund.
Donor Name: Indiana Criminal Justice Institute
State: Indiana
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant | Reimbursement
Deadline: 02/06/2025
Size of the Grant: Not Available
Grant Duration: 2 Years
Details:
Priority Areas
The state will give special emphasis to the support of community-based projects of demonstrated effectiveness that are carried out by nonprofit private organizations and that have as their primary purpose the operation of shelters for victims of family violence, domestic violence, and dating violence, and their dependents; or provide counseling, advocacy, and self-help services to victims of family violence, domestic violence, and dating violence, and their dependents. In addition to prioritizing funding for the personnel costs to provide these services, two other supports will be prioritized:
- Mobile Advocacy involves providing services to clients in locations that they identify as safe within their communities rather than expecting that they should start services in shelters. Since mobile advocacy prioritizes understanding the specific needs of the survivor, it can include many different types of services such as community-based advocacy, housing support, and flex funding.
- Flex Funding are funds that service agencies can provide to survivors to allow them to secure basic needs essential for keeping themselves and their children safe, such as initial housing costs (deposits and first month’s rent), utility payments, relocation expenses, transportation costs, debt related to the abuse, nutrition assistance, and costs related to safety/security.
Grant Period
The award period for the upcoming grant cycle is July 1, 2025 – June 30, 2027.
Uses of funds
Funds may be used in the following ways: (1) to establish and maintain domestic violence prevention and treatment centers, (2) to develop and establish training programs for professional, paraprofessional or volunteer personnel who are engaged in areas related to the problems of domestic violence, and (3) to develop and implement the means for prevention and treatment of domestic violence.
Allowable Costs
- Personnel, employee benefits, and cost of supplies, equipment, and travel to perform the following activities are allowable costs for providing services to victims of domestic violence, family violence and dating violence.
- Overtime or on-call time for grant funded staff is an allowable cost, but to claim the different rate of pay, there must be a separate line item in the budget that includes the rate of pay for that time.
- Prevention services such as outreach, training and education in parenting, employment training, educational services, promotion of good nutrition, disease prevention, and substance abuse prevention.
- Counseling with respect to family violence, counseling or other supportive services provided by peers, either individually or in groups, and referral to community social services.
- Safety plan development and supporting the efforts of victims to make decisions related to their ongoing safety and well-being.
- Culturally and linguistically appropriate services such as interpreters and/or having documents translated into other languages.
- Technical assistance with respect to assisting victims with obtaining financial assistance under Federal and State programs.
- Housing advocacy to assist in locating and securing safe and affordable permanent housing and homeless prevention services.
- Medical advocacy including referrals for healthcare services (including mental health and alcohol and drug abuse treatment) but shall not include reimbursement for any healthcare services.
- Legal advocacy to provide victims with information and assistance through the civil and criminal courts, and legal assistance.
- Children’s counseling and support services, and childcare services for children who are victims of family violence or the dependents of such victims, and children who witness domestic violence.
- The following are other expenses that are allowable for reimbursement when providing services to victims of domestic violence:
- Operating expenses (rent, utilities, etc.) of victim service facilities at a prorated amount.
- Supplies for facilities including office supplies, cleaning supplies, and victim supplies (clothing, toiletries, etc.).
- Emergency flexible funding to support survivors’ immediate financial needs.
- Emergency financial assistance is defined as financial assistance that assists survivors with re/establishing their lives free of domestic violence.
- Assistance may include, but is not limited to, rental assistance, utility deposits, or transportation costs.
- Funds may not be used as a direct payment to any victim; thus, the domestic violence program would have to pay the cost directly to a third-party vendor. Subrecipients should have an established policy in place to make these funds available to all program participants; to ensure these funds meet a reasonable, basic need.
- A victim financial assistance request form must be submitted with all requests for reimbursement. An example of a financial assistance request can be found on the ICJI website.
Allowable Activities
Allowable activities and costs are those that support the operations and services delivered to victims of domestic violence, family violence and dating violence statewide. These activities include:
- Supporting the operations and service delivery of residential and nonresidential domestic violence programs statewide. These activities include:
- Providing emergency shelter. Shelter may be provided either at a residential facility or by arrangement at temporary residential facilities available in the community.
- Providing 24-hour crisis intervention, information and referral, support, and advocacy.
- Providing emergency transportation services.
- Providing information, referral, and victim services in the areas of housing, health care advocacy, social and mental health services, family counseling, job training and employment opportunities, and legal assistance and counseling for dependents.
- Retaining and/or expanding agency staffing to support program activities.
- Expanding basic domestic violence services to underserved and unserved communities. Basic services may be provided by shelters, satellite offices operated by an existing program, and/or non-residential service providers who provide advocacy services.
- Developing and establishing a primary prevention initiative that addresses risk and protective factors related to domestic violence.
- Primary prevention initiatives are defined as systematic processes that promote safe and healthy environments and behaviors. Primary prevention strategies seek to prevent first-time perpetration or victimization, (i.e., teen dating violence, healthy relationships).
- Developing and establishing training programs for professionals, paraprofessionals, or volunteers who are engaged in the areas related to the prevention or intervention of domestic violence. Training includes training others in the community as well as staff and volunteer training.
- Developing a coordinated effort to address the system response to domestic violence. A system response can include:
- Collaboration with local or statewide agencies and organizations that interface with survivors.
- Providing technical assistance to agencies that work with survivors.
- Participating or collaborating with a local task force, commission, or advisory council to address domestic violence.
- Increasing organizational capacity through meeting data collection and technology needs.
- Providing or coordinating language access services for victims/survivors of domestic violence. Language access allows for people with limited English proficiency to use and benefit from a wide range of services. Any organization that receives funding is required to provide language access to its services. Types of language access services include in-person (face-to-face) interpreting, remote (telephone and video) interpreting, and document translation.
Eligibility Criteria
Nonprofit and nongovernmental organizations and public social service entities who provide services to victims of domestic violence may apply for funding. An entity is eligible to receive funding if it furnishes, agrees to furnish, or arranges with a third party to furnish all the following services:
- Emergency shelter provided either at the agency’s facility or by arrangement at temporary residential facilities available in the community, that are available to a person who fears domestic or family violence.
- A twenty-four (24) hour telephone system to provide crisis assistance to a person threatened by domestic or family violence.
- Emergency transportation services, if necessary, to aid victims of domestic or family violence.
- Information, referral, and victim advocacy services in the areas of health care assistance, social and mental health services, family counseling, job training and employment opportunities, legal assistance, and counseling for dependent children.
For more information, visit ICJI.
