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 national council of juvenile and family court judges (NCJFCJ) will continue to implement TA2TA: the TA provider resource center. This project will provide training and technical assistance to OVW training and technical assistance initiative providers (TA providers) and maintain a national resource center on ovws training and technical assistance opportunities and resources. During the course of the project period, NCJFCJ will provided OVW TA providers with logistical support for virtual and in-person training events, maintain a centralized website dedicated to providing OVW grantees, sub-grantees, and potential grantees and subgrantees with training information and resources produced by OVW TA providers, coordinate logistical support for OVW new grantee orientations and issue-specific roundtables, and provide training and technical assistance to OVW TA providers on effectively implementing TA projects. This project supports FY 2024 TA initiative purpose area 53: comprehensive for the training and technical assistance initiative. The timing for performance of this award is 12 months. This award is a continuation of 15JOVW-22-GK-03983-mumu and is for year four of a five-year comprehensive TA project awarded competitively under the FY 2021 TA initiative solicitation.