The National Crime Victim Law Institute (NCVLI) received a $500,000 cooperative agreement award from the U.S. Department of Justice Office for Victims of Crime under the Crime Victim Assistance/Discretionary Grants program (CFDA 16.582). The grant will fund a project titled "Enhancing Legal Services for Persons with Disabilities Victimized by Crime" to increase the number of attorneys prepared to provide trauma-informed legal advocacy and rights enforcement for crime victims with...
The Department of Justice's Office on Violence Against Women (OVW) awarded $700,000 under the OVW Technical Assistance Initiative (CFDA #16.526) federal grant program to Activating Change, Inc. to provide comprehensive training and technical assistance to OVW Disability Grant Program grantees from October 1, 2022 through September 30, 2023. This new cooperative agreement award will support training initiatives, peer consultations, and targeted assistance allowing current and prospective OVW...
This $200,000 federal Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Justice's Office for Victims of Crime (CFDA 16.582 - Crime Victim Assistance/Discretionary Grants program) will enable Able South Carolina, a disability-focused non-profit organization, to provide culturally responsive services to crime victims and survivors with disabilities in South Carolina. During the two-year project period from October 1, 2024 to September 30, 2026, the funding will support tailored victim services,...
Under this $1,300,000 Cooperative Agreement awarded by the U.S. Department of Justice's Office on Violence Against Women (OVW), the recipient organization Activating Change, Inc. will collaborate with the Autistic Self Advocacy Network to provide training and technical assistance to grantees of the OVW Training and Services to End Violence and Abuse Against Individuals with Disabilities and Deaf People Program. The project will orient new grantees, facilitate assessment and planning with...
The U.S. Department of Justice's Office on Violence Against Women (OVW) awarded a $700,000 Cooperative Agreement under its Technical Assistance (TA) Initiative (CFDA 16.526) to Activating Change, Inc., a non-profit organization, for Years 1 and 2 of a 5-year project. Through this award, Activating Change will implement the Disability and Deaf Resource Center to provide training and technical assistance to increase awareness of the needs of survivors with disabilities and deaf survivors,...
The Department of Justice Office for Victims of Crime awarded a $116,925 cooperative agreement to Social Current Inc. under the Crime Victim Assistance/Discretionary Grants program (CFDA 16.582) to conduct an implementation study and evaluation. The study will summarize work by five demonstration sites using a public health approach to reduce childhood fatalities from neglect. It will seek to understand how the demonstration sites' collaborative strategies and national technical assistance can...
The U.S. Department of Justice's Office of Justice Programs, Office for Victims of Crime (OVC), has awarded a $199,892 Project Grant under the Crime Victim Assistance/Discretionary Grants program (CFDA 16.582) to the Domestic Violence Initiative For Women With Disabilities, doing business as The Initiative. This grant will fund the organization's efforts to empower victims of domestic violence, with a particular focus on individuals with disabilities, by promoting self-resiliency and closing...
This $5,000,000 Cooperative Agreement awarded by the Department of Justice's Office on Violence Against Women (CFDA 16.529 - Education, Training, and Enhanced Services to End Violence Against and Abuse of Women with Disabilities) will enable Activating Change, Inc., a non-profit organization, to implement a multi-faceted strategy to enhance services for Deaf, DeafBlind, and hard of hearing victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, stalking, and abuse. Specifically, the grant will fund the...
The Department of Justice's Office for Victims of Crime (OVC) awarded a $1,500,000 Cooperative Agreement to Activating Change, Inc., a non-profit organization, under the Crime Victim Assistance/Discretionary Grants program (CFDA 16.582) to relaunch the National Center for Reaching Victims (NRC). The overarching goal of the NRC is to transform victim services by providing culturally and linguistically specific, trauma-informed, and accessible services that identify, reach, and meet the needs of...
The Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs awarded a $750,000 cooperative agreement to Healing Justice Project under the Crime Victim Assistance/Discretionary Grants program (CFDA 16.582) to address the lack of post-conviction victim services. The three-year project will develop recommendations, training models, and tools to expand post-conviction victim services for those impacted by conviction and sentence review processes. Healing Justice will conduct an environmental scan and needs...