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, inspire action for social change will conduct outreach and training for the reimagined OVW supervised visitation and safe exchange guiding principles. Inspire action for social change will partner with the center for justice innovation, the national council of juvenile and family court judges, ujima, INC., the national center on violence against women in the black community, and red wind consulting, to provide outreach, training, and technical assistance to supervised visitation and safe exchange programs providing services to families with a history of domestic violence. Over the course of the project period, inspire action for social change and its partners will conduct outreach and training about the reimagined guiding principles through webinars, videos, podcasts, and other written and visual resources. This project supports FY 2024 TA initiative purpose area 12: outreach for reimagined supervised visitation and safe exchange guiding principles. The timing for performance of this award is 24 months. This is a new award.