The Family Violence Prevention and Services Act (FVPSA) program provides funding to increase awareness and supportive services for victims/survivors of domestic violence, dating violence, and sexual assault.
Donor Name: Administration for Children and Families
State: All States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 06/12/2024
Size of the Grant: $100,000 to $500,000
Grant Duration: 2 Years
Details:
The purpose is to expand the capacity of family violence, domestic violence, and dating violence service programs and community-based programs to serve adult, child, and youth survivors of domestic violence and prevent future domestic violence.
This program provides direct counseling, victim advocacy, and services to support the social, emotional, and developmental needs of adults, children, and youth who have been abused or exposed to domestic violence.
Funding Information
- Estimated total program funding: $19,125,000
- Minimum award amount for the first budget period (award floor): $275,000
- Maximum award amount for the first budget period (award ceiling): $450,000
Project Period
24-month period.
Required activities
Required activities include:
- Direct counseling
- Services that are developmentally, age, culturally, and linguistically appropriate to the victims and children
- Advocacy on behalf of victims/survivors of family violence, domestic violence, or dating violence and their children, including coordinating services with those provided by the child welfare system
- Services for non-abusing parents to support their roles as caregivers and in responding to the social, emotional, and developmental needs of their children
- Services that work with the non-abusing parent and child together, where appropriate. Services do not always have to be provided together with both the parent and child physically present
Eligibility Criteria
According to FVPSA, 42 U.S.C. §10412(b), eligible entities are:
- A local agency (an agency that serves a local jurisdiction, such as a county, city, or special district government entity)
- A nonprofit private organization, including faith-based and charitable organizations, community-based organizations, and voluntary associations (providing services for a city, county, region, state, or territory)
- A tribal organization (serving tribal communities)
Individuals, including sole proprietorships, and foreign entities may not apply.
For more information, visit Grants.gov.
