The Department of Attorney General Maine was awarded a $499,752 Project Grant by the Department of Justice's Office on Violence Against Women (OVW) under the Grants to Encourage Arrest Policies and Enforcement of Protection Orders Program (CFDA 16.590). The grant, awarded on October 1, 2024 with a completion date of September 30, 2027, will fund two key activities: 1) Hiring an Interpersonal Violence Prosecutor to support prosecutors across Maine, adjudicate cases using trauma-informed...
The U.S. Department of Justice's Office on Violence Against Women awarded a $700,000 Project Grant under the Grants to Encourage Arrest Policies and Enforcement of Protection Orders Program (CFDA 16.590) to Cumberland County, Maine in partnership with Through These Doors. The grant, effective October 1, 2024 through September 30, 2027, aims to improve the criminal justice response to domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking in the Cumberland County region. Key...
The County of Cumberland, located in Portland, Maine, received a three-year Project Grant award of $394,640 from the Department of Justice Offices Boards and Divisions Office on Violence Against Women. The grant was awarded on October 1, 2021 under the Grants to Encourage Arrest Policies and Enforcement of Protection Orders Program (CFDA 16.590). The funding will support case management services provided by Maine Pretrial Services, Inc. and victim advocacy services delivered by Sexual Assault...
The U.S. Department of Justice's Office on Violence Against Women (OVW) awarded a $114,533 Formula Grant under the State Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault Coalitions Program (CFDA 16.556) to the Maine Coalition To End Domestic Violence. This grant, with a performance period from October 1, 2024 to September 30, 2025, supports the Coalition's efforts to coordinate statewide victim services activities and collaborate with federal, state, and local entities engaged in violence against women...
The Aroostook County Sheriff's Office, in partnership with Hope and Justice and Maliseet Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault Advocates, received a $500,000 Project Grant from the U.S. Department of Justice's Office on Violence Against Women under the Grants to Encourage Arrest Policies and Enforcement of Protection Orders Program (CFDA 16.590). The grant will be used to expand and improve the capacity of law enforcement and prosecutors to effectively investigate and prosecute domestic violence,...
The Maine Coalition to End Domestic Violence (MCEDV) received a $750,000 three-year Project Grant award from the Department of Justice Office on Violence Against Women under the Rural Domestic Violence, Dating Violence, Sexual Assault, and Stalking Assistance Program (Rural Program, CFDA 16.589). The Rural Program aims to identify, assess, and appropriately respond to victims of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking in rural communities. MCEDV will use the funding to...
The Department of Justice Offices Boards and Divisions Office on Violence Against Women awarded $950,000 under the Rural Domestic Violence, Dating Violence, Sexual Assault, and Stalking Assistance Program (CFDA #16.589) federal grant program to the Maine Coalition Against Sexual Assault. The 36-month project grant funding will support programs that identify, assess, and appropriately respond to child, youth, and adult victims of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking in...
The Maine Department of Corrections will receive $606,853 under a Formula Grant award from the Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention. The funding supports the PREA Program: Strategic Support for PREA Implementation federal grant program (CFDA #16.735). Key services include supporting efforts in Maine confinement facilities to achieve compliance with the Prison Rape Elimination Act standards, with goals of reducing sexual abuse...
This three-year, $550,000 Project Grant from the Department of Justice Office on Violence Against Women's Justice Systems Response to Families program (CFDA 16.021) will support the Maine Coalition to End Domestic Violence in establishing supervised visitation and safe exchange services in Androscoggin County, Maine. The grant funds will allow the Coalition's partner Home to Home to begin offering free supervised visitation programs in Androscoggin County starting in October 2022, providing an...
The Department of Justice Offices Boards and Divisions Office on Violence Against Women awarded a $428,498 FY21 Formula Grant under the Sexual Assault Services Formula Program (CFDA 16.017) to the Maine Department of Health and Human Services on August 1, 2021 for completion by July 31, 2023. Through this funding and a sub-award to the Maine Coalition Against Sexual Assault, statewide services will be delivered to intervene in and prevent sexual violence, sex trafficking, and sexual...