The office on violence against women (OVW) emerging issues and training and technical assistance call for concept papers (call for concept papers)invitedinterested eligible entities to propose…

The U.S. Department of Justice's Office on Violence Against Women (OVW) awarded a $1,500,000 Cooperative Agreement under the OVW Technical Assistance Initiative (CFDA 16.526) to Futures Without Violence, a national nonprofit organization. The 36-month project, titled "Strategies to Advance Greater Elder Safety 3.0: Pathways Project (STAGES Pathways)", aims to build the capacity of community-based organizations and their partners to provide enhanced services for older adult survivors of abuse. The project will:

1. Select pilot sites to participate; 2) Create an educational curriculum and host an in-person workshop; 3) Conduct an in-person training institute; 4) Provide ongoing technical assistance and tools; 5) Present quarterly webinars; 6) Develop online toolkits; and 7) Reconvene pilot sites to document lessons learned and promising practices. This collaborative project will leverage $990,000 from the OVW Innovation Fund and $510,000 from OVW's technical assistance funding to address new and revised programs under the recently reauthorized Violence Against Women Act.

The office on violence against women (OVW) emerging issues and training and technical assistance call for concept papers (call for concept papers)invitedinterested eligible entities to propose projects that explore new and emerging issues and training and technical assistance projects addressing the needs and challenges of OVW grantees, subgrantees, and the larger violence against women field. In particular, with the passage of the violence against women act reauthorization act of 2022 (vawa 2022), PUB. L. No. 117-103, DIV. W, 136 stat. 49, 840-962, OVW sought to identify innovative projects and technical assistance that address the new and revised programs and issues included in vawa 2022, as well as other emerging issues in the fields of sexual assault, domestic violence, dating violence, and stalking. See 34 U.S.C. 12291(b)(11) and (16). OVW reviewed the submitted concept papers, selected promising projects in each of the call for concept papers purpose areas, and contacted selected applicants to invite them to submit a full application for their concept paper through the call for concept papers invitation to apply solicitation. With funding through the OVW FY 2023 emerging issues and training and technical assistance call for concept papers, futures without violence (futures) will implement the strategies to advance greater elder safety 3.0: pathways project (stages pathways). The goal of stages pathways is to create a community of learning and practice amongst community-based organizations and their partners to build, enhance, or adapt their existing services for older adult survivors of abuse including restorative options and strategies to increase financial sustainability and safety. During the course of the project period, futures and its project partners and consultants will: 1) select organizations to participate as pilot sites; 2) create an educational curriculum and host an in-person workshop for pilot sites; 3) conduct an in-person training institute for pilot sites; 4) provide ongoing technical assistance and supportive tools to the pilot sites and OVW grantees and potential grantees; 5) present quarterly webinars; 6) develop online toolkits; and 7) RE-convene pilot sites virtually or in-person near the conclusion of the project to ascertain lessons learned and design an online compendium of promising practices and strategies. This award supports purpose area 1: emerging issues. The timing for performance of this award is 36 months for $1,500,000, of which $990,000 will be awarded through the OVW innovation fund and $510,000 through OVW technical assistance funding. This project is being awarded as a pilot project.