This $500,000 Cooperative Agreement award from the Department of Justice's Office for Victims of Crime (OVC), under the Crime Victim Assistance/Discretionary Grants program (CFDA 16.582), will fund the Zero Abuse Project's "Empowering Underserved Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse" project. The project aims to enhance the availability of accessible, culturally-relevant information, resources, and support for underserved adult survivors of child sexual abuse, with a focus on male...
The Department of Justice Office on Violence Against Women (OVW) awarded $550,000 under the OVW Technical Assistance Initiative (CFDA 16.526) federal grant program to the Center for Survivor Agency and Justice. This 36-month cooperative agreement will support the provision of training and technical assistance to OVW grantees serving survivors of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking regarding economic issues. The Center for Survivor Agency and Justice will deliver...
The U.S. Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs Victims of Crime has awarded a $500,000 Cooperative Agreement to Providence St. Mary Medical Center to implement the High Desert Sexual Assault Survivor Resilience Program. The program aims to increase the number of Sexual Assault Nurse Examiners (SANEs) providing high-quality, trauma-informed medical forensic examinations for adult and adolescent sexual assault victims in the geographically isolated High Desert region of San Bernardino...
The Department of Justice's Office on Violence Against Women awarded a $400,000 Cooperative Agreement to the Los Angeles Center for Law and Justice (DBA Survivor Justice Center) to strengthen partnerships and enhance services for individuals with disabilities and Deaf individuals who are victims of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking. The project, funded through the Education, Training, and Enhanced Services to End Violence Against and Abuse of Women with...
The Center For Survivor Agency And Justice (CSAJ) received a $350,000 cooperative agreement award from the Department of Justice Offices Boards and Divisions Office on Violence Against Women (OVW) under the OVW Technical Assistance Initiative (CFDA 16.526) program. The two-year award, issued October 1, 2021 through September 30, 2023, will support CSAJ's delivery of technical assistance and resources to help communities forge partnerships to effectively respond to violent crimes against women....
This $838,966 federal Project Grant was awarded by the National Institute of Justice (NIJ) under the CFDA program "National Institute of Justice Research, Evaluation, and Development Project Grants" (16.560). The grant aims to develop and test a community-based, peer advocacy intervention to improve mental health, increase safety behaviors, and empower survivors of intimate partner violence (IPV) whose partners are enrolled in Relationship Violence Intervention Programs (RVIPs). The...
The Department of Justice's Office on Violence Against Women (OVW) awarded a 36-month, $750,000 Cooperative Agreement to Futures Without Violence to implement the Advancing Safety Through Employment Rights Advocacy Project. This project will build the capacity of OVW-funded attorneys and advocates, particularly those serving Black, Latina, Indigenous, disabled, Deaf, and LGBTQIA+ survivors, to assist survivors in accessing and utilizing their employment protections. Under this award, Futures...
The Office on Violence Against Women (OVW), under the OVW Technical Assistance Initiative (CFDA 16.526), awarded a $750,000 Cooperative Agreement to Just Detention International, Inc. (JDI) to implement the "Rooted in Resilience" project over a 36-month period starting October 1, 2023. Through this project, JDI will expand advocacy services for currently and formerly incarcerated survivors of sexual abuse by building the capacity of sexual assault service organizations and other...
The U.S. Department of Justice's Office on Violence Against Women (OVW) awarded a $375,000 Cooperative Agreement to Respect Together (doing business as PCAR) to implement the Services for Male Survivors of Sexual Assault project under the OVW Technical Assistance Initiative (CFDA 16.526). This 36-month project, which is a continuation of a previous award, will develop and deliver specialized technical assistance, resources, and trainings to community-based victim service organizations to...
Through funding from the U.S. Department of Justice's Office on Violence Against Women (OVW) Technical Assistance Initiative (CFDA 16.526), the Iowa Coalition Against Sexual Assault (Iowacasa) and project partner North Carolina Coalition Against Sexual Assault (NCCASA) will implement the "Inviting Imagination: Healing Advocacy for Adult Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse" project. This $1.5M, 36-month Cooperative Agreement will provide training and technical assistance to victim service...