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 Asian Pacific Institute on Gender-Based Violence (API-GBV) was awarded a $1,500,000 cooperative agreement under the U.S. Department of Justice's Office on Violence Against Women (OVW) Technical Assistance Initiative (CFDA 16.526). This 36-month project, entitled the "Healing Across Language Project", will develop a national center to train, test, and maintain a registry of trauma-informed interpreters for domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking. Specifically, API-GBV and its project partners will create interpreter testing, an asynchronous training program, and a national registry of qualified interpreters. Additionally, the project will establish a complaint and de-registration process for interpreters. This award supports OVW's efforts to address new and emerging issues related to the 2022 reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act, with a focus on enhancing language access and culturally-specific services for gender-based violence survivors.

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, the asian pacific institute on gender violence (API-GBV) will implement healing across language project. The healing across language project will develop a national center for the training, testing, and registry of trauma-informed interpreters trained specifically on domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, stalking, and other forms of gender-based violence.over the course of the project period, API-GBV and its project partners will develop trauma-informed domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking interpreting tests, create an asynchronous learning program to train and test candidates, develop a national registry of qualified interpreters trained on gender-based violence, and identify continuing education opportunities for interpreters. Additionally, API-GBV will create a complaint and DE-registration process for interpreters that are part of the national registry of qualified interpreters. This award supports purpose area 1: emerging issues. The timing for performance of this award is 36 months for $1,500,000, of which $1,500,000 will be awarded through the OVW innovation fund. This project is being awarded as a pilot project.