Assistance program
OVW Technical Assistance Initiative
$278.6 Million committed in FY2018–FY2026
- Agency
- Office on Violence Against Women, Justice, Department of
- Assistance
- Project Grants
- CFDA number
- 16.526
- What it does
- To provide communities with critical resources that help them forge partnerships across agencies and disciplines to respond effectively to violent crimes against women. OVW's Technical Assistance Program was created to provide grantees with the expertise and support they need to develop and implement successful local projects, increase victim safety, and bolster offender accountability. Grantees participate in educational initiatives, conferences, peer-to- peer consultations, and targeted assistance that allow them to learn from experts and one another about how to overcome obstacles and incorporate promising practices in their efforts to address violence against women. In addition, the Technical Assistance Program focuses on building the capacity of national criminal justice and victim advocacy organizations to effectively address violent crimes against women and examine issues of special interest to OVW and its constituents.
- Who benefits
- Beneficiaries are organizations or individuals partnered with organizations.
- Who applies
- Eligible applicants are nonprofit national, tribal and statewide organizations and institutions of higher education. In rare circumstances, state/local government agencies or local nonprofits may be eligible.
- Authorized by
- Violence Against Women and Department of Justice Reauthorization Act of 2005, Public Law 109-162, Section 3(a), 42 U.S.C. §13925(b)(11).
- Program site
- https://www.justice.gov/ovw ↗
Committed by fiscal year
* FY2026 is year-to-date — the fiscal year is still in progress, so its total is still filling in. The striped band and dashed line mark that provisional stretch.
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