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 Office on Violence Against Women (OVW), under the OVW Technical Assistance Initiative (CFDA 16.526), awarded a $750,000 Cooperative Agreement to Just Detention International, Inc. (JDI) to implement the "Rooted in Resilience" project over a 36-month period starting October 1, 2023. Through this project, JDI will expand advocacy services for currently and formerly incarcerated survivors of sexual abuse by building the capacity of sexual assault service organizations and other survivor service providers to establish sustainable, trauma-informed art workshops in a wide variety of detention and reentry facilities across the United States. Key activities include recruiting and training a diverse group of survivor service providers to facilitate the art workshops, providing ongoing training and technical assistance to the facilitators, and documenting and disseminating the project's tools and successes to enable other service providers to replicate the program in their communities.

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, just detention international (JDI) will implement the rooted in resilience project. This project will expand advocacy services for currently and formerly incarcerated sexual abuse survivors by building the capacity of sexual assault service organizations and other survivor service organizations to establish sustainable, trauma-informed art workshops in a wide variety of detention and reentry facilities in communities throughout the united states. Over the course of the project period, JDI and its project partners will: 1) recruit and train a diverse group of survivor service providers to facilitate art workshops in such facilities; 2) provide ongoing training and technical assistance to all facilitators as they establish art programs in their local facilities; and 3) document and disseminate project tools and successes so that other service providers can replicate the program in their own communities. This award supports purpose area 1: emerging issues. The timing for performance of this proposal is 36 months for $750,000; all of which will be awarded through OVW technical assistance funding.