Violence Against Women: Office on Violence Against Women

• In Event: DWC NIJ VAWA Panel: Violence Against Women Act - Federal Investment in Prevention, Intervention, Research, and Evaluation

Abstract

The Office on Violence Against Women (OVW) provides federal leadership in developing the national capacity to reduce violence against women and administer justice for and strengthen services to victims of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking. Created in 1995, OVW administers financial and technical assistance to communities across the country that are developing programs, policies, and practices aimed at ending domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking. Funding is awarded to local, state and tribal governments, courts, non-profit organizations, community-based organizations, secondary schools, institutions of higher education, and state and tribal coalitions. Grants are used to develop effective responses to violence against women through activities that include direct services, crisis intervention, transitional housing, legal assistance to victims, court improvement, and training for law enforcement and courts. The recipients of funding work with specific populations such as elders, persons with disabilities, college students, teens, and culturally and linguistically specific populations.

Author

• Virginia (Ginger) Baran, U.S. Department of Justice, Office on Violence Against Women