STOP Violence Against Women
Formula Grants Program
The STOP (Services, Training, Officers,
and Prosecutors) Violence Against Women Formula Grants are awarded to
states to develop and strengthen the criminal justice system's response
to violence against women and to support and enhance services for victims.
Each state and territory must allocate 25 percent of the grant funds
to law enforcement, 25 percent to prosecution, 5 percent to courts,
and 30 percent to victim services. The remaining 15 percent is discretionary
within the parameters of the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA). Grant
awards are made to state governments, and interested tribes and organizations
should contact their respective State Administrative Agency for information
about obtaining funding from this program.
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Grants to Indian Tribal Governments
Program
The Grants to Indian Tribal Governments
Program is designed to enhance the ability of tribes to respond to violent
crimes against Indian women, enhance victim safety, and develop education
and prevention strategies. Eligible applicants are recognized Indian
tribal governments or their authorized designees.
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Grants to Encourage Arrest Policies
and Enforcement of Protection Orders
This discretionary grant program is designed
to encourage state, local, and tribal governments and state, local,
and tribal courts to treat domestic violence, dating violence, sexual
assault, and stalking as serious violations of criminal law requiring
the coordinated involvement of the entire criminal justice system. Eligible
applicants are States, units of local government, Indian tribal governments,
and state, local, tribal, and territorial courts.
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Rural Grant Program
This discretionary grant program is designed
to enhance services available to rural victims and children by encouraging
community involvement in developing a coordinated response to domestic
violence, dating violence, sexual assault, stalking, and child abuse.
Eligible applicants are states, Indian tribes, local governments, and
nonprofit, public or private entities, including tribal nonprofit organizations,
proposing to serve rural areas or rural communities. Not less than 75
percent of the total funding available for the program is for eligible
entities located in rural states. Depending on the size of appropriations,
25-40 percent is set aside for services that meaningfully address sexual
assault. For more information, including the definitions of "rural area" and "rural
state" please see www.usdoj.gov/ovw.
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Legal Assistance for Victims
Grant Program
This discretionary grant program is designed
to strengthen civil and criminal legal assistance programs for adult
and youth victims of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault
and stalking who are seeking relief in legal matters arising as a consequence
of that abuse or violence. Eligible applicants include private nonprofit
entities, territorial organizations, Indian tribal governments and tribal
organizations, and publicly funded organizations not acting in a governmental
capacity such as law schools. Three percent of the funding for this
program is set aside for grants to programs that assist victims of domestic
violence, sexual assault, and stalking on lands within the jurisdiction
of an Indian tribe.
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Campus Grant Program
The Campus Program is designed to strengthen
the higher education community’s response to sexual assault, stalking,
domestic violence, and dating violence crimes on campuses, and to enhance
collaboration between campuses and local criminal justice and victim
advocacy organizations. Eligible applicants are institutions of higher
education.
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State Coalitions Grant Program
Grants are awarded to each state domestic
violence coalition and sexual assault coalition for the purposes of
coordinating state victim services activities and collaborating and
coordinating with Federal, state, and local entities engaged in violence
against women activities.
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Grants to Tribal Domestic Violence
and Sexual Assault Coalitions
This discretionary grant program is designed
for increasing awareness of domestic violence and sexual assault against
American Indian and Alaska native women, enhancing the response to such
violence at the tribal, Federal, and state levels, and providing technical
assistance to coalition membership and tribal communities. Eligible
applicants are established nonprofit, nongovernmental tribal coalitions
addressing domestic violence and sexual assault against American Indian
and Alaska Native women and individuals or organizations that propose
to incorporate as nonprofit, nongovernmental tribal coalitions.
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Enhanced Training and Services
to End Violence and Abuse of Women Later in Life Program
This discretionary grant program is designed
to address the issue of elder abuse, neglect, and exploitation, including
domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, or stalking against
victims who are 50 years of age or older, through training and services.
Eligible applicants include States, Indian tribal governments and tribal
organizations, units of local government, and nonprofit nongovernmental
victim services organizations with demonstrated experience in assisting
elderly women or demonstrated experience in addressing domestic violence,
dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking.
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Education, Training and Enhanced Services to End Violence Against and Abuse of Women with Disabilities
This discretionary grant program is designed
to provide training, consultation, and information on domestic violence,
dating violence, stalking, and sexual assault against individuals with
disabilities and to provide direct services to such individuals. Eligible
applicants are States, units of local government, Indian tribal governments
or tribal organizations, and nonprofit, nongovernmental victim services
organizations.
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Safe Havens: Supervised Visitation
and Safe Exchange Grant Program
This discretionary grant program helps
create safe places for visitation with and exchange of children in cases
of domestic violence, child abuse, sexual assault, or stalking. Eligible
applicants are States, units of local government, and Indian tribal
governments.
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Transitional Housing Grant Program
This discretionary grant program provides
transitional housing, short-term housing assistance, and related support
services for individuals who are homeless, or in need of transitional
housing or other housing assistance, as a result of fleeing a situation
of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, or stalking,
and for whom emergency shelter services or other crisis intervention
services are unavailable or insufficient. Support services should be
designed to enable an individual fleeing domestic violence, dating violence,
sexual assault, or stalking to locate and secure permanent housing and
to integrate into a community. Such services may include transportation,
counseling, child care services, case management, employment counseling,
and other services. Eligible applicants are States, units of local government,
Indian tribal governments, and other organizations, including domestic
violence and sexual assault victim services providers, domestic violence
or sexual assault coalitions, other nonprofit, nongovernmental organizations,
or community-based and culturally specific organizations, that have
a documented history of effective work concerning domestic violence,
dating violence, sexual assault, or stalking.
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