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Crime Victims Fund Stabilization Act of 2024
Good afternoon. I hope you are well and almost ready to start a relaxing weekend. Earlier this week, I participated in an NCJA webinar that in part focused on the Crime Victims Fund. Because so many of you or co-workers within your agency also administer VOCA, I wanted to give you a summary of some of […]
OVW Solicitation – Strengthening Culturally Specific Campuses Approach………
In case you missed this solicitation announcement from OVW, please see the below link to the FY 2024 Strengthening Culturally Specific Campuses’ Approaches to Address Domestic Violence, Dating Violence, Sexual Assault, and Stalking Initiative Solicitation: https://www.justice.gov/ovw/media/1349471/dl?inline Take care, Barry
Save the Date !! – AVA Annual Meeting, June 20, 2024
Good morning VAWA Administrators! Please find attached a “Save the Date” announcement for June 20, 2024. AVA will hold our annual meeting that afternoon from 2:00-3:30pm EST and we hope that you will be able to join us. It’s an opportunity to learn more about AVA, the services that we offered to administrators last year, […]
Stalking Program Solicitation
Good afternoon. Please refer to the following link if you would like more information about the FY 2024 Grants to Enhance Culturally Specific Services for Victims of Domestic Violence, Dating Violence, Sexual Assault and Stalking Program Solicitation https://www.justice.gov/ovw/media/1343286/dl?inline Take care, Barry
President Biden’s FY25 Budget re VAWA
Good morning/afternoon. President Biden’s FY25 Budget was released today and posted on the OMB’s website. I am sharing two links that provide more specific detail about this budget. The following link is a 44 page document that is the DOJ Appendix for the FY25 Budget. You can find VAWA specific information starting at the bottom of page […]
Y 24 OVW Solicitation Announcements
Good morning VAWA Administrators!! Please refer to the below links for FY 2024 OVW Solicitation Announcements: Fiscal Year 2024 Sexual Assault Services Culturally Specific Program Solicitation https://www.justice.gov/ovw/media/1339426/dl?inline – Deadline to submit SF-424 and SF-LLL in Grants.gov: 11:59 PM Eastern Time (ET) on April 4, 2024 – Deadline to submit full application in JustGrants: 8:59 PM […]
OVW Solicitations – Rural Programs, Cybercrime and Transitional Housing
Please refer to the below links for FY 2024 OVW Program Announcements: – OVW Fiscal Year 2024 Rural Domestic Violence, Dating Violence, Sexual Assault, and Stalking Program – Solicitation https://www.justice.gov/ovw/media/1338391/dl?inline – OVW Fiscal Year 2024 National Resource Center on Cybercrimes Against Individuals Program – Solicitation https://www.justice.gov/ovw/media/1338491/dl?inline – OVW Fiscal Year 2024 Transitional Housing Assistance Grants […]
AVA Peer to Peer – June 2024
Good afternoon! As many of you know, AVA held two Peer-to-Peer (P2P) meetings in 2023. Our current plan is to hold just one meeting in 2024. Last year’s meetings were held on the east coast and in the western part of the US, so this year we chose the central US, specifically, Madison, Wisconsin. The Madison airport […]
AVA Executive Director Position
The AVA Board of Directors is excited to announce that we are searching for our next Executive Director. Our current ED, Barry Bryant has expressed his desire to retire by August of this year. The AVA ED position is a part-time position that requires about 25-30 hours each week and allows interested individuals to work […]
Important Changes to STOP and SASP Subrecipient Performance Reporting
Happy Monday everyone! I am sharing/re-sharing an email from Melissa Schmisek with OVW. Her reminder is below. Barry Subject: Reminder RE: Important Changes to STOP and SASP Subrecipient Performance Reporting Hello SASP and STOP Administrators, As you know, in 2024, MEI (Measuring Effectiveness Initiative) and OVW will launch a web-based tool for […]