Survivor Advocacy Outreach Program

Survivor Advocacy Outreach Program is a tax-exempt nonprofit organization based in Athens, Ohio that serves as a prime recipient of federal grants funding victim advocacy, transitional housing, and workforce development services for survivors of violent crime and domestic violence in rural Southeast Ohio, and as a sub-recipient on federal grant awards from state and local criminal justice agencies. The organization does not hold federal contracts or IDVs.

SOAP operates entirely in the grant space, with prime recipients status on three federal grants totaling approximately $500,000 in combined awarded value and sub-recipient status on ten additional federal grants. The organization's primary customer is the Department of Justice, which funds the vast majority of SOAP's work: the Office on Violence Against Women accounts for six awards and the Office for Victims of Crime accounts for four awards, together representing ten of seventeen total awards in the source (59% of the portfolio). The Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Children and Families accounts for four additional awards. Together, these three agencies represent 94% of recent awards.

SOAP's prime grant work focuses on victim services and transitional housing. A $500,000 Project Grant from DOJ's Office for Victims of Crime under CFDA 16.582 (Crime Victim Assistance/Discretionary Grants), awarded October 1, 2025 through September 30, 2028, funds comprehensive services for violent crime survivors across Southeast Ohio, including establishment and operation of transitional housing units, advocate-case managers providing direct victim services, and a housing manager overseeing operations and referrals. SOAP also received a continuation grant from DOJ's Office on Violence Against Women under the Rural Domestic Violence, Dating Violence, Sexual Assault, and Stalking Program (34 U.S.C. 12341) awarded October 1, 2023 through September 30, 2026, supporting victim services, legal assistance, and prevention strategies in rural communities. A third prime grant, awarded September 30, 2023 through September 30, 2026 by the Department of Labor Employment and Training Administration, supports workforce development for dislocated and incumbent workers across nine Southeast Ohio counties, with expected employment outcomes for thirty participants and engagement of minimum fifteen employers in Appalachian Ohio.

As a sub-recipient, SOAP performs victim advocacy work under prime grants held by the Ohio Office of Criminal Justice Services, the Attorney General of Ohio, the National Children's Alliance, and the Ohio Department of Natural Resources. Sub-award work has included mobile advocacy unit expansion, family violence and sexual assault victim services, mental health counseling, childcare coordination, and operation of a Children's Advocacy Center following assumption of that function in October 2022. The sub-award trajectory shows activity from 2022 through 2026, with two awards scheduled to complete in the next twenty-four months. SOAP's service area spans nine Southeast Ohio counties (Athens, Gallia, Hocking, Jackson, Lawrence, Meigs, Morgan, Perry, and Vinton) with a combined population of approximately 300,000, positioning the organization as a regional victim services provider anchored to rural and underserved Appalachian communities.