The office on violence against women (OVW) training and technical assistance (TA) initiative provides OVW grantees and subgrantees with the expertise and support they need to develop and implement…

The office on violence against women (OVW) training and technical assistance (TA) initiative provides OVW grantees and subgrantees with the expertise and support they need to develop and implement successful state, local, tribal, and campus projects; increase victim safety; and bolster offender accountability. Through cooperative agreements, OVW supports educational initiatives, conferences, peer-to-peer consultations, and targeted assistance that allow current and potential grantees and subgrantees to learn from experts and one another about how to overcome obstacles and incorporate promising practices in their efforts to address violence against women. In addition, OVW is focused on building the capacity of the criminal and civil justice systems and victim service organizations to respond effectively to domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking and to foster partnerships between organizations that have not traditionally worked together to address violence against women. With FY 2023 TA initiative funding, the national organization for victim assistance, INC. (NOVA) will continue to implement the campus coordinated community response (CCR) training and technical assistance project. This project will increase the capacity of grants to reduce sexual assault, domestic violence, dating violence, and stalking on campus program (campus program) CCR teams to understand the need for and the complexities involved with campus CCR teams, including how to develop comprehensive response protocols and risk assessments and the importance of centering racial equity in campus CCR efforts. Over the course of the project period, NOVA will provide direct technical assistance to grantees and potential grantees of the campus program on how to develop and maintain a campus CCR, develop a CCR team training video and accompanying facilitator guide, develop a CCR toolkit, share additional training and TA resources, and provide tipsheets for centering racial equity. This project supports FY 2023 TA initiative purpose area 54: comprehensive for campus coordinated community response. This award is for years 4 and 5 of a five-year comprehensive TA project, awarded competitively in FY 2020 and is a continuation of 2020-TA-AX-K006.