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Family Violence - Grants and Funding

This section contains links to Federal funding opportunities.

Child Abuse Prevention & Treatment Act Research and Demonstration Projects
These funds, available from the Administration of Children and Families, US Department of Health and Human Services, support research on the causes, prevention, and treatment of child abuse and neglect; demonstration programs to identify the best means of preventing maltreatment and treating troubled families; and the development and implementation of training programs. Grants for these projects are provided nationwide on a competitive basis to State and local agencies and organizations. Projects have focused on every aspect of the prevention, identification, investigation, and treatment of child abuse and neglect.

Education and Technical Assistance Grants to End Violence Against Women with Disabilities
The Education and Technical Assistance Grants to End Violence Against and Abuse of Women with Disabilities Program is designed to improve services to individuals with disabilities who are victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, and stalking. Grantees will provide training, consultation, and information to service providers, including independent living centers, disability-related service organizations, and domestic violence programs providing shelter or related assistance about responding to violence against women who are individuals with disabilities. Eligible applicants are States, units of local government, Indian tribal governments, and nongovernmental private entities.

Enhanced Training and Services to End Violence and Abuse of Women Later in Life Program (Training Grants Program)
The Training Grants Program is designed to train law enforcement officers, prosecutors, and court personnel to recognize, address, investigate, and prosecute cases of elder abuse, neglect, and exploitation and violence against individuals with disabilities, including domestic violence and sexual assault, against older or disabled individuals.

Grants to Encourage Arrest Policies and Enforcement of Protection Orders Program
The grants are designed to encourage State, local, and Indian tribal governments and courts to treat domestic violence as a serious violation of criminal law. Grants may be used to implement mandatory or pro-arrest programs and policies; develop policies and training in criminal justice agencies to improve tracking of domestic violence and date-violence cases; and create centralized domestic violence units of police, prosecution, or other criminal justice agencies. At least 5 percent of the funding for this program must be available for grants to Indian tribal governments.

Grants to State Sexual Assault and Domestic Violence Coalitions 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.

Grants to Tribal Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault Coalitions
Grants are available for the development and operation of nonprofit tribal domestic violence and sexual assault coalitions in Indian country.

Justice Assistance Grant (JAG) Program
The Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant Program will allow states and local governments to support a broad range of activities to prevent and control crime and to improve the criminal justice system. JAG replaces the Byrne Formula and Local Law Enforcement Block Grant (LLEBG) programs with a single funding mechanism that will simplify the administration process for grantees.

Legal Assistance for Victims Grant Program
This grant is designed to strengthen legal assistance programs for victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, and stalking. Eligible applicants include Indian tribal governments, victim services programs, law school clinics, and other legal service organizations that help victims of domestic violence or sexual assault. Five percent of the funding for this program is set aside for grants to programs that help victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, and stalking on lands within the jurisdiction of an Indian tribe.

Promoting Safe and Stable Families
This program, funded by the Administration of Children and Families, US Department of Health and Human Services, provides funds to states to provide family support, family preservation, time-limited family reunification services, and services to promote and support adoptions. These services are primarily aimed at preventing the risk of abuse and promoting nurturing families, assisting families at risk of having a child removed from their home, promoting the timely return of a child to his/her home, and if returning home is not an option, placement of a child in a permanent setting with services that support the family. As part of this program, the Court Improvement Program provides grants to help State courts improve their handling of proceedings relating to foster care and adoption. After an initial assessment of court practices and policies, States use these funds for improvements and reform activities. Typical activities include development of mediation programs, joint agency-court training, automated docketing and case tracking, linked agency-court data systems, one judge / one family models, time-specific docketing, formalized relationships with the child welfare agency, and legislative change.

Rural Domestic Violence and Child Victimization Enforcement Discretionary Grant Program
The grants are designed to enhance services to rural victims and children by encouraging community involvement in developing a coordinated response to domestic violence, date violence, and child abuse. In rural states, eligible applicants are State, local, and Indian tribal governments, as well as public and private entities. Nonrural States may apply on behalf of rural jurisdictions in their States. At least 5 percent of the funding for this program must be available for grants to Indian tribal governments.

Safe Havens: Supervised Visitation and Safe Exchange Grant Program
The 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 State, local, and Indian tribal governments that propose to enter into contracts with public and private nonprofit entities to provide supervised visitation and safe visitation exchange of children. At least 5 percent of the funding for this program must be available for grants to Indian tribal governments.

STOP Violence Against Women Formula Grants Program
The S.T.O.P (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.

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