The grants to prevent and respond to domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, stalking, and SEX trafficking against children and youth program supports comprehensive, community-based…

The Nest Foundation will receive $500,000 from the Department of Justice Offices Boards and Divisions Office on Violence Against Women under the Consolidated and Technical Assistance Grant Program to Address Children and Youth Experiencing Domestic and Sexual Violence and Engage Men and Boys as Allies (CFDA 16.888) from October 1, 2022 to September 30, 2025. The Foundation will implement a coordinated community response team and needs assessment to guide a project providing school-based prevention, intervention, victim advocacy services, and training for students, faculty, law enforcement and parents/guardians in Oakwood, California. Key deliverables include developing trauma-informed policies and programming to address dating violence, sexual assault, stalking and sex trafficking; bystander intervention training for students; and assisting law enforcement and schools to investigate reported incidents when chosen by victims. The goal is to change attitudes and behaviors related to these crimes impacting children and youth.

The grants to prevent and respond to domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, stalking, and SEX trafficking against children and youth program supports comprehensive, community-based projects that develop or expand prevention, intervention, treatment, and response strategies to address the needs of children and youth impacted by domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, stalking, and SEX trafficking, including support for their non-abusing parents, caregivers, and legal guardians. The grantee and project partners will implement a project addressing purpose area 3 - providing school-based services: prevention, intervention, and response to dating violence, sexual assault, stalking, and SEX trafficking. The project will: 1) establish a coordinated community response team to oversee and guide project activities; 2) complete a limited community needs assessment and develop a strategic plan that outlines the implementation phase of the project; 3) provide victim services for students, including increasing access to on- or off-site victim advocates and counselors; 4) develop and implement school-based policies, practices, and programs to prevent and respond to dating violence, sexual assault, stalking, and SEX trafficking; 5) provide developmentally appropriate prevention programming and bystander intervention training for students; 6) develop and deliver training for school resource officers, teachers, school faculty and employees, and coaches on creating trauma informed classrooms, schools, and programming for students; 7) providing training to assist law enforcement, prosecutors, courts, and schools to investigate and/or prosecute incidents of the crimes previously listed when the student or the student's caregiver chooses to report to law enforcement; 8) develop and deliver training to assist school faculty and employees, law enforcement, and parents, caregivers, or legal guardians in supporting students impacted by aforementioned crimes; 9) implement programs within the school and/or school system designed to change attitudes and behaviors in relation to the crimes previously listed.