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, the battered womens justice project (BWJP) will partner with the national center for state courts (NCSC), american bar association on behalf of its commission on domestic and sexual violence (ABA), activate change, aequitas, asian pacific institute on gender-based violence (API-GBV), center for justice innovation (CJI), end domestic abuse wisconsin on behalf of the national abuse clearinghouse on abuse in later life (NCALL), esperanza united, institute for intergovernmental research (IIR)S law enforcement training and technical assistance consortium (LETTAC), jewish women international (JWI), national organization for victim advocacy (NOVA), regional domestic violence firearms enforcement unit in king county, washington (RDVFEU),tribal law and policy institute (TLPI), and ujima: the national center on violence against women in the black community team, and subject matter experts to provide training, technical assistance, and resources to grant recipients of the OVW electronic service protection order court pilot (ESPOC) program. This project will support ESPOC grantees as they develop technologies, policies, and procedures for their programs; on-site technical assistance; and the synthesis and documentation of lessons learned across sites. Over the course of the project period, BWJP will provide training, technical assistance, and resources to ESPOC grantees on the electronic service of civil protection orders. This will include support for the selected pilot sites as they develop technologies, policies, and procedures for their programs; on-site technical assistance; and the synthesis and documentation of lessons learned across sites. This project supports FY 2024 TA initiative purpose area 40:technical assistance for electronic service protection order court pilot program. The timing for performance of this award is 36 months. This award is for years one, two, and three of a five-year comprehensive TA project awarded competitively under the FY 2024 TA initiative solicitation.