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 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 efforts to 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. With this grant funding, family resources, INC. Will implement a project for youth violence prevention services (purpose area 2) to serve women, men, non-binary individuals, children, and families of survivors in metropolitan counties in iowa and rock island county in illinois. MOU partners on this project include augustana university, black hawk college, and eastern iowa community college. The project will aim to: 1) plan and host prevention programs to help colleges meet and exceed title IX requirements, including training members of their sexual assault response team; 2) provide survivors free, confidential intervention, treatment, response and referrals to address survivors emotional, physical, cognitive, and social impacts of trauma; and 3) provide training to local law enforcement, court personnel, health care providers, and other allied professionals, as well as local colleges, to help them meet title IX provisions and integrate college-age specific training avoiding sexual assault, relationship violence, stalking, and sexual harassment; bystander intervention; protecting students; reporting procedures; and employee roles and responsibilities. The project addresses the OVW priority to expand economic justice and financial advocacy for survivors and the program-specific priority of technology abuse. The timing for performance of this award is 36 months.