OVW Fiscal Year 2024 Healing and Response Teams Special Initiative | O OVW 2024 172095

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The OVW Fiscal Year 2024 Healing and Response Teams Special Initiative (Assistance Listing 16.029) is a discretionary funding opportunity from the U.S. Department of Justice, Office on Violence Against Women, offered as a cooperative agreement. It was developed in direct response to recommendations from the Not Invisible Act Commission and is designed to strengthen how communities respond to Missing or Murdered Indigenous People (MMIP) cases when those cases are connected to domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, stalking, or sex trafficking. The core purpose is to help build and sustain Healing and Response Teams (HRTs) that use a Tribal-based model of care, meaning the approach is intended to be rooted in Tribal communities, culturally grounded practices, and survivor-centered methods that reflect the needs and realities of Indigenous people and Tribal nations.

A key feature of this initiative is that the primary award recipient is expected to function as a national organizer and capacity-builder rather than simply operating a single local program. Within the first nine months of the project period, and in coordination with OVW, the selected recipient must identify three subrecipients, issue subawards to them, and actively collaborate with them as pilot sites. These pilot sites are intended to serve as early implementers of the HRT concept, helping test and demonstrate how the model can work on the ground, while the lead recipient provides guidance, training, coordination, and ongoing support. The emphasis on subawards and pilot sites signals that OVW wants this initiative to generate practical, replicable lessons and infrastructure that can inform broader national efforts to respond to MMIP cases tied to gender-based violence.

Eligible applicants are primarily national, Tribal, statewide, or other nonprofit organizations, with the expectation that applicants already have the capacity to deliver Tribal-specific training and technical assistance at a national level. In other words, OVW is looking for an organization that can train and support multiple communities across the country with expertise that is specifically relevant to Tribal contexts, including the intersection of violence against women, community response systems, victim services, and the unique jurisdictional and cultural considerations present in Tribal communities. While the opportunity lists a wide range of potentially eligible applicant types (including state, county, and city governments; Tribal governments and Tribal organizations; public and private institutions of higher education; and nonprofits with or without 501(c)(3) status), the solicitation makes clear that non-governmental nonprofit entities with national Tribal-specific TTA capacity are the typical fit. Government agencies, colleges and universities, or local nonprofits may be considered only in rare circumstances, and only if they can clearly justify a demonstrated history of providing Tribal-specific TTA to a national audience and explain why they are positioned to lead this work.

The program’s administrative details reflect a single, high-investment national award. OVW expects to make one award, with a ceiling of $2,000,000. The funding opportunity number is O-OVW-2024-172095, it was posted on May 7, 2024, and the original application closing date was June 25, 2024. Because the award is structured as a cooperative agreement, applicants should expect substantial involvement from OVW in shaping implementation, including coordination around the selection and support of the three pilot subrecipients, performance expectations, and alignment with OVW priorities for addressing gender-based violence and enhancing victim-centered, trauma-informed, and culturally relevant responses in MMIP-related cases.

• The Office on Violence Against Women in the law, justice and legal services sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "OVW Fiscal Year 2024 Healing and Response Teams Special Initiative" and is now available to receive applicants.
• Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 16.029.
• This funding opportunity was created on 2024-05-07.
• Applicants must submit their applications by 2024-06-25. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
• Each selected applicant is eligible to receive up to $2,000,000.00 in funding.
• The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 1 candidate(s).
• Eligible applicants include: State governments, County governments, City or township governments, Public and State controlled institutions of higher education, Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized), Native American tribal organizations (other than Federally recognized tribal governments), Nonprofits having a 501 (c) (3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education, Nonprofits that do not have a 501 (c) (3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education, Private institutions of higher education, Others.

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