Deadline: 12 February 2020

The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), Office on Violence Against Women (OVW) is accepting applications for its Grants to Enhance Culturally Specific Services for Victims of Sexual Assault, Domestic Violence, Dating Violence and Stalking Program (CSSP) to support community-based organizations in providing culturally relevant services to victims of  domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault and stalking.

The CSSP supports the maintenance and replication of existing successful community-based programs providing culturally specific services to victims of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking, as well as the development of innovative culturally specific strategies to enhance access to services and resources for victims who face obstacles to using more traditional programs.

Purpose Areas

• Working with State and local governments and social service agencies to develop and enhance effective strategies to provide culturally specific services to victims of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking.
• Increasing communities’ capacity to provide culturally specific resources and support for victims of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking crimes and their families.
• Strengthening criminal justice interventions, by providing training for law enforcement, prosecution, courts, probation, and correctional facilities on culturally specific responses to domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking.
• Enhancing traditional services to victims of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking through the leadership of culturally specific programs offering services to victims of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking.
• Working in cooperation with the community to develop education and prevention strategies highlighting culturally specific issues and resources regarding victims of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking.
• Providing culturally specific programs for children exposed to domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking.
• Providing culturally specific resources and services that address the safety, economic, housing, and workplace needs of victims of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, or stalking, including emergency assistance.
• Examining the dynamics of culture and its impact on victimization and healing.

OVW Priority Areas

In FY 2020, OVW is interested in supporting the priority areas identified below. Applications proposing activities in the following areas will be given special consideration:

• Reduce violent crime against women and promote victim safety through investing in law enforcement, increasing prosecution, and promoting effective prevention.
• Empower victims to become survivors by growing them past their vulnerabilities to a place of self-sufficiency.
• Address the specific challenges that rural communities face in responding to domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking.

Award Information

• Estimated Total Program Funding: $7,000,000
• Award Ceiling: $300,000

Eligibility Criteria

• Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education.
• Nonprofits that do not have a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education.
• Native American tribal organizations (other than Federally recognized tribal governments).

For more information, visit https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=322751