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 National Center for State Courts (NCSC) received a $1,400,000 Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Department of Justice's Office on Violence Against Women (OVW) under the OVW Technical Assistance Initiative (CFDA 16.526). The 36-month project, titled "Ensuring Safety and Access in Virtual Civil Protection Order Processes," aims to improve survivors' safety and access in virtual civil protection order processes. NCSC will establish a learning collaborative to identify best practices, pilot implementation, and disseminate lessons learned to the national court community. Key project activities include conducting site visits, recruiting learner courts, developing resources, delivering webinars, and presenting at national conferences. Of the total award, $400,000 is being provided through the OVW Innovation Fund, with the remaining $1,000,000 from OVW Technical Assistance funding. This project is being awarded as a pilot to address new and revised programs under the Violence Against Women Act Reauthorization Act of 2022.

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 center for state courts (ncsc) will implement the ensuring safety and access in virtual civil protection order processes project. The goal of the project is to improve survivors safety and access in virtual civil protection order processes by establishing a learning collaborative of experts, mentor courts, and learner courts as well as sharing lessons learned with the national court community. This project will identify best practices in virtual civil protection order processes, pilot these practices to test best practice implementation, and disseminate lessons learned to the national court and related stakeholder communities. Over the course of the project period, ncsc and its project partners will: 1) conduct site visits to identify key best practices that are implemented in courts; 2) recruit learner courts interested in improving their virtual processes; 3) develop lessons learned resources from this learning collaborative; 4) conduct webinars for learner courts and other courts interested in developing or modifying virtual civil protection order processes; 5) present at national conferences; and 6) develop a final report of the project. This award supports purpose area 1: emerging issues. The timing for performance of this award is 36 months for $1,400,000, of which $400,000 will be awarded through the OVW innovation fund and $1,00,000 will be awarded through OVW technical assistance funding. This project is being awarded as a pilot project.