The Department of Justice Office on Violence Against Women awarded a $950,000 Rural Domestic Violence, Dating Violence, Sexual Assault, and Stalking Assistance Program (CFDA 16.589) grant to Avera Health to implement a 3-year project to improve access to sexual assault nurse examiner (SANE) services and provide training for medical personnel caring for victims of interpersonal violence in rural communities across South Dakota and Minnesota. Key activities include: Enhancing SANE protocols,...
This $500,000 Cooperative Agreement award, funded by the U.S. Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs Victims of Crime (OVC) under the Sexual Assault Forensic Examinations (CFDA 16.053) program, supports the implementation of the High Desert Sexual Assault Survivor Resilience Program by Providence St. Mary Medical Center. The project aims to increase the number of Sexual Assault Nurse Examiners (SANEs) providing high-quality, trauma-informed medical forensic examinations for adult and...
This $700,000 Rural Domestic Violence, Dating Violence, Sexual Assault, and Stalking Assistance Program (CFDA 16.589) award from the U.S. Department of Justice's Office on Violence Against Women will allow Sexual Assault Services of Northwest New Mexico (SASNWNM) to establish a community-based Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner (SANE) program in McKinley County, New Mexico. The 36-month project will fund the hiring of a program coordinator, lead nurse, and 3-4 on-call SANE nurses to provide...
This $700,000 Rural Domestic Violence, Dating Violence, Sexual Assault, and Stalking Assistance Program grant from the U.S. Department of Justice's Office on Violence Against Women (CFDA 16.589) will enable the Family Violence Project, in partnership with the Sexual Assault Crisis & Support Center, to implement the Strength in Unity program. Key project activities include: serving 35 child victims of sexual abuse, providing 12 educational classes for parents who have experienced...
This $950,000 Project Grant awarded by the U.S. Department of Justice's Office on Violence Against Women (CFDA 16.589 - Rural Domestic Violence, Dating Violence, Sexual Assault, and Stalking Assistance Program) to the Women's Resource Center of Northern Michigan will fund a 36-month initiative to expand and enhance services for survivors and prevention of sexual assault across five rural counties in Michigan. Key activities include: 1) finalizing a community collaborative response protocol among...
The Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs Victims of Crime has awarded a $500,000 Cooperative Agreement under the Sexual Assault Forensic Examinations program (CFDA 16.053) to Providence Health & Services - Oregon to expand sexual assault nurse examiner (SANE) services across six counties in Oregon. The 3-year project aims to increase community connections with SANE services by building partnerships with community-based sexual assault/domestic violence advocates. Key...
This Project Grant award of $750,000 from the U.S. Department of Justice's Office on Violence Against Women (OVW) under the Rural Domestic Violence, Dating Violence, Sexual Assault, and Stalking Assistance Program (CFDA 16.589) will enable Caring Unlimited Corporation, a non-profit organization in Sanford, Maine, to implement the Rural Domestic Violence Response Team Project over a 36-month period. Key activities under this grant include: 1) providing advocacy, safety planning, and support group...
This $495,514 Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) under the Rural Health Care Services Outreach, Rural Health Network Development and Small Health Care Provider Quality Improvement Program (CFDA 93.912) supports the Vermont Program for Quality in Health Care, Inc.'s "Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner (SANE) Care Collaborative & Innovation Network" initiative. The key products and services to be...
The U.S. Department of Justice Office on Violence Against Women has awarded a $931,048 Rural Domestic Violence, Dating Violence, Sexual Assault, and Stalking Assistance Program (CFDA 16.589) grant to Women In Safe Homes. Through this 36-month project, Women In Safe Homes will implement a comprehensive program to enhance support services and improve the community response to sexual assault in rural Alaska. Key activities include: Hiring 2 sexual assault advocates in Ketchikan and Petersburg to...
The U.S. Department of Justice's Office on Violence Against Women (OVW) awarded a $950,000 Project Grant under the Rural Domestic Violence, Dating Violence, Sexual Assault, and Stalking Assistance Program (CFDA 16.589) to the Western Kansas Child Advocacy Center (WKCAC). The 36-month grant will enable WKCAC, in partnership with local law enforcement, to expand access to Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner (SANE) medical programs and enhance victim services across 34 rural counties in Western Kansas....
This $500,000 Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Justice's Office on Violence Against Women (OVW) under the Rural Domestic Violence, Dating Violence, Sexual Assault, and Stalking Assistance Program (CFDA 16.589) will enable Saint Joseph Hospital and its partners, Rape Response Services and AMHC Sexual Assault Services, to develop and implement four new Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner (SANE) programs at rural critical access hospitals in Washington, Piscataquis, Somerset, and Penobscot counties in Maine. The project aims to improve the quality and accessibility of sexual assault forensic medical examinations for victims in these rural communities. Key activities include 9 months of planning with OVW technical assistance providers, establishing collaborative community responses at each hospital, and developing or enhancing Sexual Assault Response Teams (SARTs) in Washington and Penobscot counties. The 36-month award period runs from October 1, 2024 to September 30, 2027.