Federal Grant Award Summary

The Office on Violence Against Women (OVW) awarded $243,213 to Valorus, doing business as the California Coalition Against Sexual Assault (CCASA), under the State Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault Coalitions Program (CFDA 16.556) for the period October 1, 2025, through September 30, 2026. As California's designated state coalition, CCASA provides critical coordination and collaboration services to address sexual assault, domestic violence, dating violence, and stalking throughout the state. The organization coordinates statewide victim services activities, collaborates with federal, state, and local law enforcement and judicial entities, and works with local sexual assault programs and other service providers to ensure appropriate responses to sexual assault cases.

Under this formula grant, CCASA delivers products and services including technical assistance to local rape crisis centers and sexual assault service providers, public education campaigns on sexual assault prevention, policy advocacy and coordination with child protective services and courts on custody and visitation issues involving sexual assault, and oversight and monitoring of grant distributions to local providers. The funding supports CCASA's role in building multi-agency partnerships, providing training programs, and implementing evidence-based prevention and response strategies to support survivors of gender-based violence across California.