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Children and Youth Exposed to Violence Grant Program
The Children and Youth Exposed to Violence Grant Program, created by the Violence Against Women Act of 2005 (VAWA 2005), will fund projects that seek to mitigate the effects of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking on children and youth exposed to violence and reduce the risk of future victimization or perpetration of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking. The program will support projects that provide services for children including direct counseling, advocacy, or mentoring. Projects funded under these grants must include support for the non-abusing parent or the child's caretaker.
Court Training and Improvements Program
The Court Training and Improvements Program (Courts Program), created by the Violence Against Women Act of 2005, is designed to improve court responses to adult and youth domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking.
Culturally and Linguistically Specific Services for Victims Program
The Grants to Enhance Culturally and Linguistically Specific Services for Victims of Domestic Violence, Dating Violence, Sexual Assault, and Stalking (Culturally and Linguistically Specific Services Program), created by the Violence Against Women Act of 2005, will fund projects that promote the maintenance and replication of existing successful domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking community-based programs providing culturally and linguistically specific services and other resources. The program also will support the development of innovative culturally and linguistically specific strategies and projects to enhance access to services and resources for victims of violence against women.
Engaging Men and Youth Program
The Engaging Men and Youth Program, created by the Violence Against Women Act of 2005 (VAWA 2005), will fund projects that develop or enhance new or existing efforts to engage men and youth in preventing crimes of violence against women with the goal of developing mutually respectful, nonviolent relationships.
Services to Advocate for and Respond to Youth Grant Program
The Services to Advocate for and Respond to Youth Grant Program, created by the Violence Against Women Act of 2005 (VAWA 2005), will fund projects that design (or replicate) and implement programs and services-using established domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking intervention models-to respond to the needs of youth who are victims of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, or stalking.
Sexual Assault Services Program
The Sexual Assault Services Program (SASP), created by the Violence Against Women Act of 2005 (VAWA 2005), is the first federal funding stream solely dedicated to the provision of direct intervention and related assistance for victims of sexual assault. The SASP encompasses four different funding streams for States and Territories, Tribes, State Sexual Assault Coalitions, Tribal Coalitions, and culturally specific organizations. Overall, the purpose of SASP is to provide intervention, advocacy, accompaniment, support services, and related assistance for adult, youth, and child victims of sexual assault, family and household members of victims, and those collaterally affected by the sexual assault. The SASP supports efforts to help survivors heal from sexual assault trauma through direct intervention and related assistance from social service organizations such as rape crisis centers through 24-hour sexual assault hotlines, crisis intervention, and medical and criminal justice accompaniment. The SASP will support such services through the establishment, maintenance, and expansion of rape crisis centers and other programs and projects to assist those victimized by sexual assault.
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