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SASP Solicitation

Happy Thursday VAWA Administrators! You probably just received the below email from Amy Loder/OVW but just in case you did not receive it, we wanted to make sure that you were aware of this upcoming solicitation deadline.     “Good morning. The SASP solicitation has posted to the OVW website. It may be accessed at: https://www.justice.gov/ovw/page/file/1492451/download […]

White House Fact Sheet on Reauthorization

Please refer to the below link for an informative Fact Sheet about the VAWA Reauthorization that the White House published and released last week.   https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2022/03/16/fact-sheet-reauthorization-of-the-violence-against-women-act-vawa/ Take care,   Barry

SAVE the DATE – May 10th, 2022

Good morning VAWA Administrators. Please find attached a “save the date” announcement for May 10th, 2022.   AVA will hold our annual meeting that afternoon from 1:30-3:00pm 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, […]

AVA/OVW Conference Call – Request for Info

Good morning and Happy Tuesday! AVA will be meeting with OVW in early April and we wanted to reach out to you to see if there are outstanding questions or concerns that you have that you would like for us to ask them about when we meet. Please send me any questions that you have […]

VAWA Reauthorization

Good afternoon.  Please find attached, an important press release from the Department of Justice this afternoon regarding the Reauthorization of VAWA.   I do not have any additional details at this point but I will keep you posted if I learn anything new.   https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-applauds-reauthorization-violence-against-women-act   Take care,   Barry

Rape Survivor Child Custody Act (RSCCA)

You may have seen this earlier today but in case you did not, please read the below announcement from Amy Loder/OVW:   Good afternoon. Applications and certification letters for the Rape Survivor Child Custody Act (RSCCA) funds are due by 11:59 pm ET April 29, 2022. Documents must be submitted to OVW at OVW.RSCCA@usdoj.gov. OVW will not be able […]

OVW Solicitations

Good morning!   Although you have probably already received (from OVW) each of the six solicitations listed below, I wanted to share them with you just to make sure that you were aware of each one. If you click on the links, you can learn more about each program and the Grants.gov due dates and JustGrants […]

OVW Special Condition re Workplace Violence

Happy Friday! This email is being sent out as a reminder of an upcoming OVW Special Condition due date. As you may recall, the FY2020 OVW award contained the following Special Condition: Policy for response to workplace-related incidents of sexual misconduct, domestic violence, and dating violence. The recipient, and any subrecipient at any tier, must […]

IMPORTANT – Come join the AVA Board!

  Come join the AVA Board!     The Association of VAWA Administrators (AVA) is seeking new board members to be voted in during our spring meeting! AVA leadership should be reflective of our VAWA membership across the country through representation from various geographic regions, VAWA staff who are new to the field, those that have […]