Family Violence Prevention and Services Culturally Specific Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault Discretionary Grants

For programmatic or technical questions:
Deleon Barnett-Smalls
202.260.0397
deleon.barnett-smalls@acf.hhs.gov

For grants management or budget questions:
Katrina Morgan
202.401.5127
Katrina.Morgan@acf.hhs.gov

The Administration for Children and Families will provide funding to implement culturally relevant sexual assault and domestic violence services for individuals and families impacted by domestic violence, sexual assault, dating violence, and family violence. The program is designed to reduce the pervasive and harmful impact of violence and trauma by implementing culturally relevant, trauma-informed, and evidence-informed interventions for individuals and families who are from diverse, underserved, and historically marginalized communities.

Program goals:

• Supporting innovative, culturally specific, community-based, non-residential services that enhance intervention and prevention for all survivors of sexual assault, domestic violence, dating violence, and family violence from racial and ethnic specific populations
• Strengthen the capacity and further the leadership development of racial and ethnic organizations to address sexual violence and domestic violence in their communities
• Promote strategic partnership development and collaboration, including with health systems, early childhood programs, economic support programs, schools, child welfare, workforce development, domestic violence, dating violence, and family violence programs, other community-based programs, community-based organizations serving individuals with disabilities, faith-based programs, and youth programs, in order to further a public health response to supporting survivors of sexual violence, domestic violence, dating violence, and family violence from racial and ethnic specific underserved populations
• Increase access to and implementation of culturally specific, trauma-informed, and evidence-informed interventions for children, individuals, and families impacted by sexual assault and domestic violence who are from racial and ethnic specific populations, underserved, and historically marginalized communities
• Enhance culturally specific, trauma-informed, and evidenced-informed programming to reduce traumatic stress reactions for survivors and their children
• Identify factors and strategies associated with successful implementation and sustainability of culturally specific and trauma-informed programming
• Implement interventions, policies, practices, and collaborative models to improve services for individuals, children, and families who have experienced trauma and are exhibiting trauma symptoms while accessing sexual assault programs, domestic violence programs; Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Questioning, Two-Spirited (LGBTQ2S) programs, and culturally specific community-based programs
• Evaluate how well the organization's approaches work of trauma-informed and evidence- informed interventions for survivors and their children thus contributing to the evidence base for culturally relevant services
• Disseminate research findings, protocols, and approaches to experts and service providers providing sexual assault, domestic violence, dating violence, and family violence services

Detailed lists of activities and expectations are provided in the application instructions.

Populations of focus include:

• Native Americans
• Native Hawaiians
• African Americans
• Asian Americans
• Pacific Islanders
• Hispanic/Latino/Latina

Eligibility requirements:

• Have a board of directors and staffing that is reflective of the targeted minority group being served
• Be a private nonprofit, faith-based charitable organization, or nongovernmental organization that fits one of the descriptions below:
  • A community-based organization whose primary purpose is providing culturally specific services to victims of domestic violence and dating violence from racial and ethnic minority populations
  • A community-based organization whose primary purpose is providing culturally specific services to individuals from racial and ethnic minority populations that can partner with an organization having demonstrated expertise in serving victims of domestic violence and dating violence
  • Institution of higher education (private, public, or state controlled)
  • Tribal government or tribal organization with a demonstrated record of serving victims of domestic violence, dating violence or sexual assault and their children

Award ceiling: $250,000 per year
Award floor: $200,000 per year
Project period: 4 years
Estimated number of awards: 30
Estimated total program funding: $7,500,000

Links to the full announcement and online application process are available through grants.gov. The application instructions will be found on the related documents tab.