The research and evaluation (r & e) initiative is authorized by 34 USC 12291(b)(7), which permits OVW to set aside up to three percent of available funds from most OVW programs to conduct…

The University of New Hampshire will receive $144,361 from the Department of Justice Offices Boards and Divisions Office on Violence Against Women under the OVW Research and Evaluation Program (CFDA 16.026) to supplement an evaluation of a rape crisis center's economic case management program. The initial 24 months of funding for the three-year project was provided in Fiscal Year 2021 under award number 15JOVW-21-GG-02487-MUMU. The additional 12 months of funding will allow the University of New Hampshire to complete the evaluation, which aims to further develop the evidence base for approaches to combating domestic violence, sexual assault, dating violence, and stalking as outlined under the OVW Research and Evaluation Program. The evaluation will assess a rape crisis center's economic case management services to victims.

The research and evaluation (r & e) initiative is authorized by 34 USC 12291(b)(7), which permits OVW to set aside up to three percent of available funds from most OVW programs to conduct evaluations of promising practices for combatting domestic/dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking, and to research problems emerging in the field. By generating more knowledge about strategies for serving victims and holding offenders accountable, communities that benefit from violence against women act (vawa) funding will be better equipped to align their work with practices that are known to be effective, and they will be more capable of building empirical knowledge on the efficacy of new and promising ways of making communities safer and more just. This award to the university of new hampshire provides supplemental funding for the final 12 months of a three-year project for which the initial 24 months of funding was provided in FY 2021. The study is an evaluation of a rape crisis center's economic case management program. The initial funding was provided under award number 15JOVW-21-GG-02487-mumu.