OVW Fiscal Year 2021 Grants to Prevent and Respond to Domestic Violence, Dating Violence, Sexual Assault, and Stalking Against Children and Youth Program Solicitation | O OVW 2021 38007

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The Office on Violence Against Women (OVW), within the U.S. Department of Justice, offered the Fiscal Year 2021 Grants to Prevent and Respond to Domestic Violence, Dating Violence, Sexual Assault, and Stalking Against Children and Youth Program Solicitation under the Consolidated Youth and Engaging Men (CYEM) Program (CFDA 16.888). This opportunity was a discretionary grant program designed to strengthen how communities prevent and respond to violence affecting children and youth, particularly when that violence involves domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, or stalking. OVW framed the program as supporting comprehensive, community-based work, meaning applicants were expected to build coordinated strategies across local systems rather than rely on a single isolated service or activity.

A key point in the solicitation is that it is one of two related FY 2021 solicitations under CYEM. The other is the Grants to Engage Men and Boys as Allies in the Prevention of Violence Against Women and Girls Program (often referred to as the EM solicitation). OVW made a clear distinction between the two: proposals centered primarily on engaging men and boys as allies were expected to be submitted to the EM program, while the Children and Youth (CY) program focused on addressing the needs of children and youth impacted by the covered forms of violence. In practice, this CY solicitation emphasized developing or expanding prevention, intervention, treatment, and response strategies that are tailored to young people and that reflect the realities of violence exposure in homes, relationships, schools, and communities.

The purpose of the CY Program was broad but targeted: it supported efforts that help communities better identify and meet the needs of children and youth who have experienced violence directly or have been impacted by violence occurring in their families or relationships. The solicitation contemplated work spanning prevention (such as education and community awareness), intervention (early identification and supportive services), treatment (trauma-informed counseling and healing supports), and response (coordinated systems that improve safety, accountability, and access to services). OVW also pointed applicants to additional program resources, including OVW program pages describing goals and objectives, and to performance measurement guidance under the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) Measuring Effectiveness Initiative. The emphasis on performance measures signals that grantees were expected to track outputs and outcomes and to connect funded activities to OVW and VAWA program goals.

Eligible applicants included a wide range of local and community entities: county governments; city or township governments; federally recognized Native American tribal governments; Native American tribal organizations that are not federally recognized tribal governments; nonprofit organizations with 501(c)(3) status (excluding institutions of higher education); nonprofit organizations without 501(c)(3) status (also excluding institutions of higher education); and other entities as allowed under the solicitation’s additional eligibility guidance. This eligibility structure reflects OVW’s typical approach of funding both governmental and nonprofit partners, recognizing that effective youth-focused violence prevention and response often requires collaboration between public systems (like courts, child welfare, law enforcement, and schools) and community-based service providers.

Administratively, the opportunity was listed as a grant funding instrument in the Law, Justice and Legal Services activity category. The opportunity number was O-OVW-2021-38007. The solicitation was created on January 15, 2021, and the original application closing date was March 9, 2021. OVW anticipated making about 11 awards, with an award ceiling of $500,000 per award. OVW also referenced examples of successful projects in its 2018 Biennial Report to Congress on the effectiveness of VAWA grant programs, signaling that prospective applicants could look to documented prior outcomes and approaches as models when designing proposed projects.

Overall, this FY 2021 CY Program solicitation was intended to help communities put stronger, more coordinated supports in place for children and youth affected by domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking, while also reinforcing OVW’s expectations around community collaboration, comprehensive service strategies, and measurable results.

• The Department of Justice, Office on Violence Against Women in the law, justice and legal services sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "OVW Fiscal Year 2021 Grants to Prevent and Respond to Domestic Violence, Dating Violence, Sexual Assault, and Stalking Against Children and Youth Program Solicitation" and is now available to receive applicants.
• Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 16.888.
• This funding opportunity was created on Jan 15, 2021.
• Applicants must submit their applications by Mar 09, 2021. (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 $500,000.00 in funding.
• The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 11 candidate(s).
• Eligible applicants include: County governments, City or township governments, Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized), Native American tribal organizations (other than Federally recognized tribal governments), Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education, Nonprofits that do not have a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education, Others (see text field entitled Additional Information on Eligibility for clarification).

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