OVW Fiscal Year 2024 Expanding Sexual Assault Victim Services on Campus Pilot Program | O OVW 2024 171958

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The OVW Fiscal Year 2024 Expanding Sexual Assault Victim Services on Campus Pilot Program is a discretionary federal funding opportunity from the U.S. Department of Justice, Office on Violence Against Women (OVW), authorized under the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023 (Pub. L. No. 117-328). It is designed to help colleges and universities strengthen and expand on-campus services for survivors of sexual assault, with a strong emphasis on building models that can be replicated elsewhere. A central goal is not only to improve services at the funded institutions, but also to produce a promising practice guide that other institutions of higher education can use to expand or improve their own sexual assault services and survivor advocacy.

At its core, the program is about expanding access to holistic sexual assault victim services on campus. OVW signals that these services should be survivor-centered and comprehensive, meaning they should prioritize survivor choice, privacy, autonomy, and safety while offering coordinated, practical supports that meet a range of needs. The opportunity also stresses that services must be culturally relevant, flexible, and accessible for all survivors, which points to reducing barriers for diverse communities and ensuring services are responsive to different backgrounds, identities, and circumstances. A key theme is that campuses cannot do this work in isolation: OVW highlights the importance of strong, collaborative relationships between campus-based services and community-based victim service providers so that survivors can access specialized expertise, broader resources, and continuity of care beyond the campus setting.

Eligibility is focused on institutions of higher education, including public and state-controlled universities and colleges, private institutions of higher education, and certain other qualifying entities as listed by the opportunity. OVW describes two primary eligible applicant profiles. The first includes institutions in the Gulf Coast Region (Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida) that already have significant expertise providing holistic sexual assault services on campus. Examples of the type of capacity OVW is looking for include campus-based sexual assault nurse examiner (SANE) programs, campus-based multidisciplinary sexual assault response teams, formal affiliation agreements with acute care hospital-based sexual assault programs, and active partnerships with community-based sexual assault victim service providers. OVW also emphasizes evidence-based and simulation-based training and education for multidisciplinary responders, reflecting an interest in high-quality, practice-informed training that improves coordinated response. The second eligible profile includes other institutions of higher education outside the Gulf Coast Region that can demonstrate a history of providing victim services and advocacy and that coordinate with relevant agencies to support criminal justice investigation and response, indicating that experience working alongside law enforcement, prosecutors, and related partners can be a significant strength.

The award mechanism for this opportunity is a cooperative agreement, which typically means OVW expects a more hands-on federal role than a standard grant, often involving ongoing collaboration, technical guidance, and shared responsibility for certain deliverables. The program falls under the Law, Justice and Legal Services funding activity category and is associated with CFDA number 16.029. The funding opportunity number is O-OVW-2024-171958. OVW anticipated making 2 awards, with an award ceiling of $750,000 per award, signaling a small, competitive pilot intended to support a limited number of sites with sufficient resources to implement and document robust service expansion and to contribute to field-wide learning through the promising practice guide.

Key dates and administrative details included in the listing show the opportunity was created on April 24, 2024, and the original application closing date was June 4, 2024. Overall, the program is structured as a pilot investment in campus-based sexual assault victim services that are comprehensive and accessible, grounded in survivor-centered principles, and strengthened through formal collaboration with community and criminal justice partners, with the added expectation that funded institutions will help translate their work into guidance that can benefit higher education institutions nationwide.

• The Office on Violence Against Women in the law, justice and legal services sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "OVW Fiscal Year 2024 Expanding Sexual Assault Victim Services on Campus Pilot Program" and is now available to receive applicants.
• Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 16.029.
• This funding opportunity was created on 2024-04-24.
• Applicants must submit their applications by 2024-06-04. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
• Each selected applicant is eligible to receive up to $750,000.00 in funding.
• The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 2 candidate(s).
• Eligible applicants include: Public and State controlled institutions of higher education, Private institutions of higher education, Others.

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