Metropolitan Organization Countering Sexual Assault

Metropolitan Organization Countering Sexual Assault (Mocsa), a Kansas City-based nonprofit organization, is a prime recipient of federal grants funding victim services, crisis intervention, legal advocacy, and sexual violence prevention and treatment programming across the Kansas City bi-state region (Missouri and Kansas). Mocsa does not hold federal contracts; its federal footprint consists entirely of grant awards from the Department of Justice and the Department of Health and Human Services, with supplementary sub-recipient awards from state agencies in Kansas and Missouri.

Mocsa's service portfolio centers on three core operational departments delivering direct services to sexual violence survivors and youth with problematic sexual behaviors. The Advocacy Department operates a 24-hour crisis line, provides hospital and law enforcement advocacy, and delivers court advocacy for survivors of sexual assault, rape, and child sexual abuse. The Counseling Department provides evidence-based mental health counseling to victims and their families using clinically recognized protocols. The Legal Services Department delivers comprehensive legal representation and counsel on protection orders, child custody and support, divorce and legal separation, housing, immigration, employment matters, crime victim compensation appeals, and Title IX issues. Mocsa also operates a treatment program for youth with sexual behavior problems (YSBP) using the University of Oklahoma Problematic Sexual Behavior Cognitive Behavioral Therapy protocol, serving youth ages 7–17 across its six-county service area in Missouri (Clay, Platte, Jackson, and Cass counties) and Kansas (Johnson and Wyandotte counties).

Federal funding flows primarily through the Office on Violence Against Women (14 awards) and the Office for Victims of Crime (6 awards) within the Department of Justice, with secondary support from the Administration for Children and Families and the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention within HHS. Recent prime grants include a $500,000 three-year Crime Victim Assistance award (CFDA 16.582) effective October 2025 through September 2028 to implement the Serving Victims of Sexual Crime in the Kansas City Bi-State Area Project; a three-year grant from the Office on Violence Against Women to implement education and prevention services in collaboration with Young Women on the Move (award date October 2024, completion September 2027); a continuation Legal Assistance for Victims grant from the Office on Violence Against Women (October 2023 through December 2025); and a cooperative agreement from the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention supporting the expansion of treatment for youth with sexual behavior problems (October 2021 through December 2025). Mocsa acts as prime recipient on 12 of 35 total awards (34%) and as sub-recipient on 23 awards (66%), with state-pass-through sub-awards flowing from the Executive Office of the State of Kansas, the Kansas Department of Health and Environment, the Missouri Department of Public Safety, and the Missouri Department of Social Services. Activity has grown substantially — one award in 2022 to eleven in 2025 — with only one award facing completion in the next twenty-four months, indicating minimal recompete exposure through mid-2027.