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 a cooperative agreement totaling $400,000 to Ujima: The National Center on Violence Against Women in the Black Community on August 1, 2026, under the OVW Technical Assistance Initiative (CFDA 16.526).

Ujima will implement the Empowered for HigherEd TechProject, delivering basic and advanced training, technical assistance, and resources to institutions of higher education to enhance their prevention and intervention approaches with various student populations. The project addresses OVW's FY 2025 Technical Assistance Initiative Purpose Area 5: training and technical assistance on working with college student populations.

Performance runs through July 31, 2028, with place of performance in Washington, DC. This is a new award.

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, ujima: the national center on violence against women in the black community (ujima) will implement the empowered for highered ttech project. Ujima will provide basic and advanced training, technical assistance, and resources to institutions of higher education to enhance their prevention and intervention approaches with various student populations. This project supports FY 2025 TA initiative purpose area 5: training and technical assistance on working with college student populations. This is a new award.