The office on violence against women (OVW) training and technical assistance (TA) initiative provides OVW grantees and subgrantees with the expertise and support they need to develop and implement…

The office on violence against women (OVW) training and technical assistance (TA) initiative provides OVW grantees and subgrantees with the expertise and support they need to develop and implement successful state, local, tribal, and campus projects; increase victim safety; and bolster offender accountability. Through cooperative agreements, OVW supports educational initiatives, conferences, peer-to-peer consultations, and targeted assistance that allow current and potential grantees and subgrantees to learn from experts and one another about how to overcome obstacles and incorporate promising practices in their efforts to address violence against women. In addition, OVW is focused on building the capacity of the criminal and civil justice systems and victim service providers to respond effectively to domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking and to foster partnerships between organizations that have not traditionally worked together to address violence against women. With FY 2024 TA initiative funding, esperanza united will continue its culturally specific domestic violence firearms consortium project. This award will support esperanza united in providing training and technical assistance on addressing firearms related domestic violence homicide prevention and local, state, tribal, and federal firearms policies and laws through a cultural context of domestic violence in various traditionally marginalized and underserved communities. The project will involve providing technical assistance to OVW firearms technical assistance project pilot sites, as well as collaborating with the OVW funded domestic violence homicide TA resource center and the previously selected ftap TA provider. This project supports FY 2024 TA initiative purpose area 49: culturally specific domestic violence firearms consortium the timing for performance of this award is 12 months. This award is a continuation of 15JOVW-22-GK-05004-fire.