The office on violence against women (OVW) training and technical assistance (TA) initiative provides OVW grantees, subgrantees, and potential grantees and subgrantees with the expertise and support…

The Department of Justice Office on Violence Against Women awarded the Center for Survivor Agency and Justice a $600,000 cooperative agreement on August 1, 2026, under the OVW Technical Assistance Initiative (CFDA 16.526).

The recipient will continue its Consumer Rights for Domestic and Sexual Violence Survivors Project, developing and revising resources and providing basic and intermediate training and technical assistance to attorneys and advocates on consumer law and economic issues affecting survivors. The project addresses complex consumer matters including credit issues, coercive debt, economic self-sufficiency, and job search and retention for victims of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking. The work supports the initiative's Purpose Area 15: Economic Self-Sufficiency for Victims.

The award runs from August 1, 2026, through July 31, 2029, with place of performance in Washington, DC. This is a continuation of a prior award (15JOVW-22-GK-04011-MUMU).

The office on violence against women (OVW) training and technical assistance (TA) initiative provides OVW grantees, subgrantees, and potential 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 programming and resources, conferences, peer-to-peer learning, and targeted assistance that allows 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 2025 TA initiative funding, the center for survivor agency and justice (csaj) will continue its consumer rights for domestic and sexual violence survivors project. Csaj will develop and revise resources as well as provide basic and intermediate training and technical assistance to attorneys and advocates on addressing complex consumer law and economic needs, including credit issues, coercive debt, economic self-sufficiency, and job search and retention for victims in cases of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking. This project supports FY 2025 TA initiative purpose area 15: economic self sufficiency for victims. This award is a continuation of 15JOVW-22-GK-04011-mumu.