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 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 the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges (NCJFCJ) to implement the "Replicating the Cook County Expediter Model: A Pilot Project to Increase Safe Child-Related Relief in Civil Protection Orders (Safer Parenting Facilitation and CPOs Project)." This 36-month pilot project will support selected jurisdictions in adapting the Cook County, IL Expediter Program to their local courts and communities, providing customized training, technical assistance, implementation tools, and data collection protocols. The project aims to enhance the capacity of the judicial system to address child-related issues in civil protection orders, with $500,000 in funding from the OVW Innovation Fund and $1,000,000 from OVW's Technical Assistance funding. As a sub-award, the Circuit Court of Cook County will participate in the implementation process, provide on-site technical assistance to project sites, contribute content for a project podcast, and support reporting requirements.

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 national council of juvenile and family court judges (ncjfcj) will implement replicating the cook county expediter model: a pilot project to increase safe child-related relief in civil protection orders (safer parenting facilitation and cpos project). This pilot project will support selected jurisdictions in adapting the cook county, IL expediter program to their unique courts and communities, assisting the selected jurisdictions with their program planning, staff development, implementation benchmarks and tools, and data collection and assessment protocols. Over the course of the project period, ncjfcj and its project partners will collaborate with OVW to identify sites, provide specific and customized training and technical assistance, conduct site visits/observations to selected jurisdictions, convene cross-jurisdiction in-person site visits and virtual meetings, support judicial leadership with training and technical assistance, create a project specific website and podcasts, host in-person all sites meetings, and present expediter showcases in conjunction with ncjfcjs annual conference. This award supports purpose area 1: emerging issues. The timing for performance of this award is 36 months for $1,500,000, of which $500,000 will be awarded through the OVW innovation fund and $1,000,000 from OVW technical assistance funding. This project is being awarded as a pilot project.