Domestic Violence Service Center Inc.

Domestic Violence Service Center Inc., a tax-exempt nonprofit organization based in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, operates transitional housing, emergency shelter, and survivor-centered support services for domestic violence victims as a federal grant recipient (54% of recent awards) and subrecipient, with no federal contracting activity. The organization serves as prime recipient on grants from the Department of Housing and Urban Development and the Department of Justice, and as subrecipient under state crime victim assistance and domestic violence grantees.

The organization's customer base concentrates heavily on HUD and DOJ programs. HUD's Assistant Secretary for Community Planning and Development funds 15 awards across the Continuum of Care program, which supports permanent supportive housing, rapid rehousing, transitional housing, and supportive services for homeless populations. The Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs Victims of Crime program and the Office on Violence Against Women account for 11 combined awards. These four customer agencies represent 74% of the organization's recent award count. Recent representative prime grants include a $550 thousand Office on Violence Against Women Transitional Housing Assistance award running October 2022 through September 2025 to provide six to twenty-four months of transitional housing and survivor-centered support services (case management, safety planning, childcare, transportation, career counseling, job training, financial counseling, and legal assistance) to survivors of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking in Wilkes-Barre. The organization also holds ongoing Continuum of Care awards from HUD's Assistant Secretary for Community Planning and Development at award dates of October 2025, February 2024, February 2023, and February 2022, supporting homelessness prevention and housing interventions.

In its subrecipient role, Domestic Violence Service Center receives flow-through funding from the Pennsylvania Commission on Crime and Delinquency for direct victim services across Luzerne, Carbon, and Wyoming Counties, including crisis stabilization and justice-process navigation (sub-awards dated February 2026, January 2026, and November 2023). The organization also operates emergency shelter and transitional housing programs as a subrecipient under domestic violence victim assistance pass-throughs (sub-awards dated September 2024, August 2023, and August 2021). Award activity has grown modestly from 2022 to 2025, with two awards per year in 2022–2023, rising to five in 2025. Only one award faces ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months. Combined federal dollars obligated across the organization's entire award history total $7.1 million, concentrated in HUD's homelessness prevention and DOJ's victim services programs.