The Washington State Department of Commerce is accepting applications from organizations to increase access to Sexual Assault Medical Forensic Examinations and address service delivery challenges in Washington.
Donor Name: Washington State Department of Commerce
State: Washington
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 11/11/2025
Size of the Grant: $100,000 to $500,000
Grant Duration: 2 Years
Details:
Funding Information
- OCVA estimates that $654,922.00 will be available for the two year project.
- Applicants may request up to $90,000 per year for a two-year total of $180,000.
Grant Period
January 1, 2026 – December 31, 2027.
Uses of Funds
Services provided with this funding may be available to children, adolescent, and adult victims of sexual assault. Applicants can include in their budget the time and effort to provide these services, as well as on-call time and/or stipends.
The services, activities, and costs eligible with this funding include the following areas:
- Sexual Assault Medical Forensic Examinations:
- This is defined as an in-person examination of a sexual assault patient by a health care provider, one who has advanced specialized education and clinical experience in the comprehensive care and treatment of these patients, including the collection of forensic evidence. Forensic evidence is not required to be detected, collected, or preserved in order to meet the service definition. The goal is to perform exams in a sensitive, dignified, trauma-informed, and victim-centered manner.
- Attending training, ongoing education, case consultation, and peer review
- Being on-call
- Traveling
- Providing expert witness testimony
- Participating in Multi-Disciplinary Team (MDT) and Sexual Assault Response Team (SART) meetings
- Providing immediate response to victims
- Providing information, referrals, and follow up
- Writing reports
- Consulting with other disciplines/systems
- Evaluating and managing patients
- Preserving, managing, and tracking evidence
- Coordinating responses with other professionals, such as Community Sexual Assault Programs or Children’s Advocacy Centers
- Outreach and education to the public about sexual assault and available resources All service activities must be consistent with the eligible activities listed in the standard, provided in a victim-centered manner, and accepted as evidence-based or promising practices.
Eligible Expenses
The costs eligible with this VOCA funding include:
- Expenses that respond to immediate needs of crime victims, such as Emergency food, shelter, clothing, and transportation
- Non-prescription and prescription medicine, prophylactic or other treatment to prevent
- HIV/AIDS infection or other infectious disease, durable medical equipment (such as wheel chairs, crutches, hearing aids, eyeglasses), and other healthcare items.
- Please note that these healthcare costs are eligible on an emergency basis, when other resources will not cover the cost. For example, the State’s compensation program, the victim’s (or in the case of a minor child, the victim’s parent’s or guardian’s) health insurance plan, Medicaid, or other health care funding source is not reasonably expected to be available quickly enough to meet the emergency needs of a victim (typically within 48 hours of the crime).
- Expenses for transportation for victims to receive services, victims after an exam, and mileage and travel costs for service providers.
Eligibility Criteria
Eligible service providers are those that:
- Are operated by a public agency, nonprofit organization, Tribe, or Tribal organization
- Provides services to victims of crime
- Can demonstrate a documented history of providing effective services to victims of crime; services do not have to be sexual assault medical forensic examinations. Other direct services are acceptable
- Has financial support from other sources
- Can demonstrate organizational capacity to provide the proposed service.
For more information, visit WSDC.
