The grants to engage men and boys as allies in the prevention of violence against women and girls program supports projects that develop and implement strategies that create educational programming…

The Department of Justice's Office on Violence Against Women (OVW) awarded a $346,069 Project Grant 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) to Peaceful Families Project, Inc. (PFP). Over a 36-month period, PFP will partner with the Baitul Hemayah Domestic Violence Intervention Program to: 1) create and implement an 8-session curriculum educating Muslim male youth about gender-based violence; 2) conduct 4 trainings and feedback sessions for at least 12 Muslim male mentors on understanding domestic violence; and 3) train at least 10 Muslim male mentors in gender-based violence, the curriculum, and mentoring skills to serve as mentors during the curriculum implementation. This project aims to engage men and boys as allies in the prevention of violence against women and girls in the Charlotte, North Carolina service area.

The grants to engage men and boys as allies in the prevention of violence against women and girls program supports projects that develop and implement strategies that create educational programming and community organizing to encourage men and boys to work as allies with women and girls to prevent domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, stalking, and SEX trafficking. With this grant award, peaceful families project, INC. (PFP) will implement this project to address engaging men purpose area 1 in the service area of charlotte, north carolina. In partnership with the baitul hemayah domestic violence intervention program, PFP will: 1) create and implement an eight session the future is futuwwah curriculum that educates muslim male youth about gender-based violence (GBV) and its existence in the muslim community; 2) conduct four trainings and feedback sessions for at least 12 muslim male mentors providing a foundation in the understanding of 7 peaceful families project, INC. & baitul hemayah domestic violence intervention program; and 3) train at least ten muslim male mentors in GBV, the future is futuwwah curriculum, and mentoring skills with the CCR team and have them serve as mentors during implementation of the curriculum. The project addresses the OVW program-specific priority against online harm and abuse. The timing for performance of this award is 36 months.