SUMMARY: The Improving Criminal Justice Responses to Sexual Assault, Domestic Violence, Dating Violence, and Stalking Grant Program (Improving Criminal Justice Responses Program) is designed to encourage partnerships between state, local, and tribal governments, courts, victim service providers, coalitions and rape crisis centers, to ensure that sexual assault, domestic violence, dating violence, and stalking are treated as serious violations of criminal law requiring the coordinated involvement of the entire criminal justice system and community-based victim service organizations. The Improving Criminal Justice Responses Program challenges the community to work collaboratively to identify problems and share ideas that will result in new responses to ensure victim safety and offender accountability.
Examples of eligible program activities include but are not limited to:
- To implement offender accountability and homicide reduction programs and policies in police departments, including policies for protection order violations and enforcement of protection orders across State and tribal lines.
- To develop policies, educational programs, protection order registries, data collection systems, and training in police departments to improve tracking of cases and classification of complaints involving domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking.
- To coordinate computer tracking systems and provide the appropriate training and education about domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking to ensure communication between police, prosecutors, parole and probation officers, and both criminal and family courts.
A total of $23,000,000 is available in funding for an anticipated 35 awards. Award amounts will vary and will be based on size and scope of the project.
DEADLINE: Applications are due June 18, 2025
ELIGIBILITY: Eligible applicants include states and territories; units of local government; Indian tribal governments; state, tribal and local courts; state, tribal, or territorial domestic violence or sexual assault coalitions; or victim service providers that partner with a State, Indian tribal government, or unit of local government. Faith-Based and community organizations, including culturally specific organizations, tribal organizations, and population-specific organizations, that meet the eligibility requirements are eligible to receive awards under this solicitation
FOR MORE INFORMATION: https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/358842
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