OVW Fiscal Year 2025 Grants to Improve the Criminal Justice Response Program
Closed Posted
- Opportunity number
- O-OVW-2025-172417
- Agency
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Office on Violence Against Women
Offices Boards and Divisions, Department of Justice
- Applications due
- Award size
- $500,000 to $1,000,000
Opportunity facts
- Assistance listings
- Funding instrument
- Grant
- Category
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- Law, Justice and Legal Services
- Eligible applicants
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- Tribal Organizations (Not Federally Recognized)
- State Governments
- County Governments
- Tribal Governments (Federally Recognized)
- 501(c)(3) Nonprofits
- Other
- City/Township Governments
- Points of contact
- Full announcement
Opportunity details come from Grants.gov. Updated .
About this opportunity
The OVW Fiscal Year 2025 Grants to Improve the Criminal Justice Response Program, administered by the Department of Justice's Office on Violence Against Women, seeks to enhance criminal justice responses to domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking. Eligible applicants include state governments, county governments, tribal governments, 501(c)(3) nonprofits, and city/township governments. The program aims to develop comprehensive strategies that improve victim safety, hold offenders accountable, and create coordinated community responses involving criminal justice agencies and victim service providers. Key objectives include implementing trauma-informed training, creating specialized investigative and prosecution units, and developing multi-disciplinary teams addressing domestic violence. The evaluation criteria will likely focus on the applicant's proposed strategy's comprehensiveness, potential impact on victim safety, and ability to coordinate across multiple criminal justice and support service entities. The grant opportunity was posted on May 6, 2025, with applications due by June 16, 2025.
Recent federal grant awards under this program have ranged from $250,000 to $1,200,000, typically covering three-year project periods. Funded activities may include hiring specialized personnel like prosecutors and victim advocates, developing coordinated response teams, and creating specialized units focused on domestic violence and sexual assault cases. The place of performance will be within the jurisdiction of the successful applicant, whether that is a state, county, tribal territory, or municipal area. Funding is available through the Grants to Encourage Arrest Policies and Enforcement of Protection Orders Program (CFDA 16.590), which supports efforts to improve criminal justice responses to domestic violence and related crimes.
Synopsis
The Grants to Improve the Criminal Justice Response Program (ICJR Program) assists state, local, and Tribal governments, and courts to improve the criminal justice response to domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking as serious violations of criminal law, and to seek safety and autonomy for victims.
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