Office on Violence Against Women Grant: Empowering Children, Youth, Men, and Boys Against Domestic and Sexual Assault

The Consolidated Youth Program creates a unique opportunity for communities to increase collaboration among non-profit victim service providers, violence prevention and children (0-10), youth (11-18), young adult (19-24) and men-serving organizations, tribes and tribal governments, local government agencies, schools, and programs that support men’s role in combating violence against women and girls. This Grant Program will make awards to different type of projects: Comprehensive and Engaging Men.

First, the Consolidated Youth Program supports “Comprehensive” Projects that fund child- and youth-centered prevention and intervention activities that maximize community-based efforts and evidence-informed practices to address domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, or stalking. “Comprehensive” Projects must focus on a full spectrum of strategies; specifically, prevention, intervention, treatment and response. These strategies include victim services to children and youth exposed to violence, training for professionals to improve interventions and responses, coordinated school-based strategies, supportive services for non-offending parents, and coordinated community responses to violence targeting children and youth. Second, the Consolidated Youth Program supports “Engaging Men” Projects which fund multi-faceted prevention strategies that involve community organizing, outreach, public education and mobilization that utilize men as influencers of other men and boys to encourage them to work as allies with women and girls to prevent domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, or stalking.