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Susan B. Carbon

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Susan B. Carbon is the Director of the United States Department of Justice’s Office on Violence Against Women (OVW). Ms. Carbon was nominated to this position by President Barack Obama on October 1, 2009 and confirmed by the United States Senate on February 11, 2010.

National Advisory Committee on Violence Against Women Holds Meeting in Washington, D.C.

Wednesday, June 1, 2011

The NAC was chartered to provide Attorney General Eric Holder and Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius with practical and general policy advice concerning improvements to the nation’s response to violence against women.

Justice Department Sponsors National Sexual Assault Response Team Conference

Tuesday, May 24, 2011

The sixth National Sexual Assault Response Team (SART) Training Conference, funded by the Justice Department’s Office of Justice Programs’ (OJP) Office for Victims of Crime (OVC), takes place in Austin, Texas, Wednesday, May 25, through Friday, May 27.

Justice and Education Departments Commemorate Sexual Assault Awareness Month with Students at Banneker High School

Friday, April 29, 2011

Wrapping up a month’s worth of events in recognition of Sexual Assault Awareness Month, the Departments of Justice and Education participated in a town hall-style event today at Benjamin Banneker Academic High School in Washington, D.C.

July 2011

Message from OVW Director Susan Carbon

Since 1995, the funding from 353 awards totaling over $750 million from a formula grant program known as the S.T.O.P. (Services. Training. Officers. Prosecutors) Violence Against Women Formula Grants Program has provided victims of sexual assault, domestic violence, dating violence and stalking with unprecedented support from both the criminal justice system and the advocacy community.