Assistance program
Grants to Encourage Arrest Policies and Enforcement of Protection Orders Program
$217.6 Million committed in FY2018–FY2026
- Agency
- Office on Violence Against Women, Justice, Department of
- Assistance
- Project Grants
- CFDA number
- 16.590
- What it does
- To assist States, Indian Tribal governments, State and local courts (including juvenile courts), Tribal courts, and units of local government to improve the criminal justice response to domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking as serious violations of criminal law, and to seek safety and autonomy for victims.
- Who benefits
- Beneficiaries include criminal and tribal justice practitioners, domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault and stalking victim advocates, and other service providers who respond to victims of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking.
- Who applies
- Grants are available to States, Indian tribal governments, units of local government, and State, tribal, territorial, and local courts. State, tribal, and territorial domestic violence and sexual assault coalitions and victim service providers are also eligible if they partner with a state, tribal government, or unit of local government.
- Authorized by
- Violence Against Women and Department of Justice Reauthorization Act of 2013, Title II, Section 202, Public Law 113-4, 42 U.S.C. § 3976hh.
- 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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- Committed through this program
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- How it's paid
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- Awards, counted once
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- The colored bars
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Direct payments