Disability Grant Program: Training and Services to End Violence against Women with Disabilities

Deadline: 10 March 2016

Office of Violence against Women (OVW) component of United States Department of Justice is seeking applications for its Training and Services to End Violence against Women with Disabilities grant program (Disability Grant Program).

The program will recognize the pressing need to focus on sexual assault, domestic violence, dating violence, and stalking against individuals with disabilities and Deaf individuals due to the proliferation of such crimes.

The Disability Grant Program was statutorily created in the Violence Against Women Act of 2000 and reauthorized by subsequent legislation with a goal to create sustainable change within and between organizations that results in increased capacity to respond to individuals with disabilities and Deaf individuals who are victims of sexual assault, domestic violence, dating violence, and stalking and to hold perpetrators of such crimes accountable.

Funding Information

Funding levels under the Disability Grant Program for FY 2016 are as follows:

• New, local-focused project $425,000
• Continuation, local-focused $300,000
• Continuation, state-focused $325,000

Eligibility Criteria

Eligible entities for this program are:

• States;
• Units of local government;
• Indian tribal governments or tribal organizations; and
• Victim services providers, such as state or tribal domestic violence or sexual assault coalitions, and nonprofit, nongovernmental organizations serving individuals with disabilities.

How to Apply

Interested applicants can submit their letter of registration at the address given on the website.

For more information, please visit Training and Services to End Violence against Women.