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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 […]
OVW Solicitations – for Tribal Governments Program and for Outreach Services to Underserved Populations
Over the past two days, I received the following solicitation announcements. I wanted to share them in case you did not see the notices: OVW Fiscal Year 2024 Grants to Indian Tribal Governments Program: Strengthening Tribal Advocacy Responses Track (START) – Solicitation https://www.justice.gov/ovw/media/1336746/dl?inline Important Dates and Information Application deadline for Grants.gov: April 24, 2024 – […]
Crime Data – Published by the Council of State Governments Justice Center
Good morning! I am sharing a link with you today related to data gathered and published by the Council of State Governments Justice Center through a BJA funded project. A special thanks to NCJA for sharing the data with me. Primarily the data relates to crime trends from 2021 and 2022. If I were still […]