On September 30, 2024, the Office of Family Violence Prevention and Services (OFVPS) at the U. S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Administration for Children and Families (ACF), awarded $19.125 million in Family Violence Prevention and Services Act (FVPSA) funding to support 55 new competitive discretionary grants for the Specialized Services for Abused Parents and their Children (SSAPC) demonstration grant program. These SSAPC demonstration projects will focus on expanding their capacity (as family violence, domestic violence, and dating violence coalitions; local programs; tribal communities; and community-based programs) to prevent future domestic violence by addressing, in a developmentally appropriate manner, the needs of children exposed to family violence, domestic violence, or dating violence.
OFVPS Director Shawndell Dawson stated, “The expansion of the SSAPC program reflects our commitment to enhancing support for families affected by domestic violence. These grants will provide critical multi-generational, trauma-informed, culturally sensitive services that empower adults, children, and youth who have survived violence and abuse. OFVPS is proud to support specialized capacity building for 55 organizations across the nation to offer healing through culturally based and developmentally appropriate services.”
This significant expansion of the program, growing from 26 to 55 demonstration projects, will implement trauma-informed, developmentally appropriate, and culturally relevant services for survivors of domestic violence and their adolescent, youth, or teenage children. Each grant recipient will operate their projects over a two-year project period with a two-year renewal as authorized by the FVPSA statue, from September 30, 2024, through September 30, 2026.
The following organizations have been awarded funding under the SSAPC program:
| Organization | City and State | Information | Website |
Catholic Charities of Southern Colorado
| Pueblo, Colorado | The mission of Catholic Charities of Southern Colorado, an organization with a long tradition of strengthening families and individuals, is to empower people to live whole and healthy lives to reach their fullest potential by providing them with pathways to build skills, knowledge, and opportunities. Nearly 17% of people in southern Colorado live below the poverty line. Catholic Charities of Southern Colorado is on a mission to change that. The goal of this project is to Empower adult, youth and child victims impacted by FV/DV/DV to create positive futures through two generation healing & resiliency. Catholic Charities of Southern Colorado (CCSoCo) is a nonprofit organization providing a variety of stabilizing, family strengthening, and opportunity building programs.
| https://www.ccsoco.org/ |
Center for Holistic Development, Inc.
| Omaha, Nebraska | The vision of Center for Holistic Development, Inc. is to increase their reach to youth, adults, families, and community care providers through education, prevention, advocacy, and collaboration. Their goal is to help individuals relieve emotional and psychological pain, make behavioral changes that facilitate growth, and increase self-awareness and self-knowledge leading to healthy living. Center for Holistic Development, Inc. promotes balance and well-being with programs and services uniquely designed to culturally, linguistically, and developmentally meet the needs of all individuals that walk through their doors. The primary goal of this program will be to reduce children’s externalizing and internalizing behaviors and attitudes towards violence, enhance parenting competence by mitigating the effects of traumatic stress from exposure to intimate partner violence, educate parents about the harmful impact of secondary violence on children, and increase the capacity to service child-parent dyads. | https://chdomaha.org/ |
Center for the Pacific-Asian Family, Inc.
| Los Angeles, California | Center for the Pacific Asian Family (CPAF) was founded to help address domestic violence and sexual assault in the Asian and Pacific Islander communities. Their mission is to build healthy and safe communities by addressing the root causes and consequences of family violence and violence against women. They are committed to meeting the specific cultural and language needs of Asian and Pacific Islander women and their families. Their vision is of an Asian and Pacific Islander community that embraces healthy relationships and works in partnership with other communities to eradicate all forms of violence. Services provided include Multilingual 24-hour helpline, Emergency and transitional shelter and community engagement and prevention. | https://nurturingchange.org/ |
Centerstone of Tennessee, Inc.
| Nashville, Tennessee/ Florida | Centerstone’s Pathways and Treatment for Healing and Hope (PATH), to be implemented at the Steven A. Cohen Military Family Clinic at Centerstone in Jacksonville, Florida, will expand the capacity of family violence, domestic violence (DV), and dating violence service programs and community-based programs to serve adult/child/youth survivors of DV and prevent future DV. The project will address the needs of DV victims and contribute to the knowledge base for DV programs by successfully meeting ACF’s goals for the project. PATH will serve 120 unduplicated adults and their 200 related children, including active military and Veteran families, who have been abused or exposed to DV and reside in Baker, Clay, Duval, Flagler, Nassau, Putnam, and St. Johns counties, FL. Centerstone will partner will four (4) primary purpose DV service providers and will provide trauma-informed direct counseling, victim advocacy, and services to support the social, emotional, and developmental needs of the target population. Within the area, it is anticipated that 25,600 teens ages 13-17 experienced some form of dating violence, 410,165 residents ages 17+ have experienced stalking/harassment, 2,355 children have experienced maltreatment, and up to 90,465 children have been exposed to DV. | https://centerstone.org/ |
Cherokee Family Violence Center, Inc.
| Canton, Georgia | The mission of the Cherokee Family Violence Center enhances the safety of those impacted by intimate partner violence through services that empower victims while advocating for a community standard of zero violence for violence in the home. Under the program “Specialized Services for Transitional Housing,” CFVC will address survivor trauma in children exposed to domestic violence (DV) and their non-abusive parents residing in our three-year,72-unit transitional housing development, Hearthstone Landing. Services including child advocacy, survivor counseling/mental health services, childcare assistance, educational advocacy, transportation, mindfulness sessions, meditation sessions, yoga, equine therapy, horticultural therapy, play therapy, support groups, and parent support, topic-specific and Hispanic leadership workshops, with options in English and Spanish. | https://cfvc.org/ |
Chicanos Por La Causa, Inc.
| Phoenix, Arizona | The mission of Chicanos Por La Causa is to drive economic and political empowerment. This project aims to improve the systems and responses to children and youth exposed to domestic violence and their abused parents, the proposed project will increase the target community’s understanding of the impact of domestic violence on children and ability to identify and respond to children impacted. Chicanos Por La Causa (CPLC) provides integrated programs and services that treat the whole person—from infants through seniors. While our services are offered to all people, we have a special competence in serving the Latino community, where our movement began. | https://cplc.org/ |
Clackamas Women's Services
| Oregon City, Oregon | The mission of Clackamas Women’s Services is breaking the isolation of domestic and sexual violence. They provide compassionate and expert support to survivors of all gender identifications, sexual orientations, ages, or immigration status who are currently experiencing or healing from these types of violence:
They work with survivors experiencing violence to plan for their safety, as well as heal from past trauma. All services offered to the community are free of charge and confidential. This project proposes a multi-pronged approach to services focused on bolstering protective factors within youth and families and utilizes a framework centered on HOPE Theory and Positive Childhood Experiences. | https://www.cwsor.org/ |
Coburn Place Safehaven II, Inc.
| Indianapolis, Illinois | Coburn Place offers compassionate support and safe housing choices to survivors of domestic violence and their children in the Greater Indianapolis area. Illuminating a path forward to restore hope and promote healing. Specializing in fresh starts. Coburn Place is constantly evolving to be a top-tier program and a leader in the field of domestic violence programs to support our clients in the best possible way. In 2011, Coburn Place became the first residential domestic violence program in Indiana to implement a voluntary, trauma-informed model of service delivery. Through this program, Coburn Place will implement Housing Choices & Whole-Family Supportive Services Program (HCWFSS) for survivors of domestic violence and their children in the Greater Indianapolis area. Its clients are experiencing poverty and homelessness due to fleeing abuse and require longer-term, affordable housing and comprehensive, individual and whole-family supportive services to heal, stabilize, and create a fresh start. | https://coburnplace.org/ |
Columbus Regional Shelter for Victims of Domestic Violence
| Columbus, Indiana | Columbus Regional Shelter for Victims of Domestic Violence, Inc. (d.b.a., Turning Point Domestic Violence Services) has been providing victim services since 1975. Raised in Columbus, Indiana, sisters Rickie and Barbara Steeb founded the Columbus Regional Women's Shelter, Indiana's second women's shelter. Services began as the Columbus Women's Center and provided shelter for victims of domestic violence in Columbus, Indiana at the local Woodlawn Motel. On August 6, 1980, the Columbus Regional Shelter for Victims of Domestic Violence, Inc. (d.b.a. Turning Point Domestic Violence Services) was incorporated. The 40-bed Emergency Shelter now serves a seven-county area including Bartholomew, Brown, Decatur, Jackson, Johnson, and Shelby counties. The main objective for this project is to expand TP’s ability to meet the increased needs of local survivors by working with community partners to provide comprehensive, community-based outreach, prevention and direct services that address the multiple, complex and far-reaching causes and consequences of IPV. | https://www.turningpointdv.org/ |
Contra Costa Family Justice Alliance
| Richmond, California | The Contra Costa Family Justice Alliance (CCFJA) operates four Family Justice Centers in California's Contra Costa and Solano Counties. Each Center is a warm and welcoming hub providing a full range of co-located, trauma-informed direct services for children, youth and adults affected by interpersonal violence (IPV), including domestic violence, sexual assault, child abuse, elder abuse, and human trafficking. Through this project, CCFJA will provide:
| https://www.cocofamilyjustice.org/ |
CORA (Community Overcoming Relationship Abuse)
| San Mateo, California | CORA provides safety, support and healing for individuals who experience abuse in an intimate relationship and educates the community to break the cycle of domestic violence. CORA envisions a society where intimate partners treat one another with respect, where domestic violence and other forms of relationship abuse are not tolerated, and where services are accessible to all who need them. Cora provides crisis intervention, safe housing, mental health services, LGBTQ+ support, legal services, prevention, and education. By addressing the intersectionality of domestic violence and immigration status, CORA’s Family Centered Mental Health Program for Immigrant Families will provide culturally sensitive family support and advocacy to ensure their safety, well-being, and overall health of the families. | https://www.corasupport.org/ |
Day One New York, Inc.
| New York, New York | Day One—New York City’s leading provider of clinical, legal, leadership development, and preventive education services to youth who are victims of intimate partner violence—in close partnership with Sanctuary for Families (Sanctuary), will adapt, implement, and evaluate the FamilySafe Project Adolescent and Young Adult Adaptation specifically for young abused parents and their children. This adaptation builds on the success of Sanctuary’s SSAPC-funded FamilySafe clinical model, while making strategic and developmentally responsive adaptations to better serve the unique and complex needs of young survivors and their children. The main objectives of this project are: ● To strengthen and secure the parent-child attachment between adolescent and young adult abused parents and their children. ● To reduce the shared and individual trauma symptoms of young, abused parents and their children. ● To expand and diversify the coping and safety strategies used by these young families. ● To improve the overall relational, social, and emotional well-being of these young families. | https://dayoneny.org/ |
DC Coalition Against Domestic Violence
| Washington, DC | The DC Coalition Against Domestic Violence (DCCADV) in partnership with Children’s National Medical Center’s Family Enrichment and Support Program, MedStar Georgetown University Hospital’s Early Childhood Intervention Network, and Dr. Lillianne Macias to provide developmentally, age, culturally, and linguistically appropriate mental health services and supports to abused parents and their children and advocacy on behalf of these survivors of domestic violence. The proposed MEND project will mitigate the impact of DV on children exposed, and the abused parent, by: 1) increasing access to trauma-specific mental health care, parenting supports, and healing workshops; and 2) advocating for trauma informed, survivor responsive resources and systems across victim services, child welfare and medical fields. This collaborative undertaking leverages the skills and knowledge of experts advancing the safety and well-being of families in DC. | https://dccadv.org/ |
EAC, Inc.
| Garden City, New York | EAC Network will further the development of its Nationally Accredited EAC Suffolk County Child Advocacy Center (CAC) which is locally funded by the Suffolk County Department of Social Services, and home to the Suffolk County Multidisciplinary Team (MDT) for investigations of cases involving child physical and sexual abuse. EAC Network will improve prevention of child abuse and provide trauma-informed care to children/youth and their parents who have experienced child abuse and/or domestic violence. The goals of the initiative are to (1) increase child, parent, and teacher knowledge about, prevention of, and reporting of child abuse and intimate partner violence; (2) improve children’s and parents’ ability to cope with the trauma they have experienced; and (3) improve the relationship between the child and the nonoffending caregiver. Through an MOU with The Retreat, 2 full time and 1 part time counselors will be funded to provide trauma-informed therapy and psychoeducation to children and parents who have experienced intimate partner violence. Over the funding period of two years, the counselors will provide 250 family sessions, 900 individual sessions with parents and 900 individual sessions with children. | https://eac-network.org/ |
Family Service of the Piedmont, Inc.
| Jamestown, North Carolina | Family Service of the Piedmont offers support services for victims of domestic violence, rape, sexual assault, human trafficking, and other violent crimes. In addition, Family Service of the Piedmont offers a range of services to assist children and families experiencing or at risk for child abuse or neglect, as well as educational programs to foster healthy parenting skills. The Empowering Families: Holistic Support Services for Abused Parents and Children program will provide supportive, holistic after-care services to abused adults and children. The program will address the multifaceted needs of families impacted by domestic violence, encompassing psychological, social, legal, and economic dimensions. Services will include mental health and substance use counseling, advocacy, case management, support groups, safe shelter and housing services and appropriate referrals to all clients who have experienced a form of victimization, regardless of their ability to pay. The Empowering Families program accepts referrals from community partners and collaborate closely with local law enforcement and the Department of Social Services. The program will offer an expansion and enhancement of the crisis services currently provided to victims at the Guilford County Family Justice Centers, with two Children’s Advocacy Centers, and in the community. The goal of the program is to expand the capacity of Family Service of the Piedmont and the Guilford County, NC community to serve adult and child survivors. Project objectives are to provide comprehensive support services for abused adults/caregivers and their children; empower those served to overcome adversity; break the cycle of violence; and address service barriers for underserved populations. Outcomes include (1) Reduced recidivism of domestic violence through early intervention and support; (2) Improved access to legal and financial resources, leading to greater autonomy and stability; (3) Enhanced coping skills and resilience among parents and children; and (4) Client satisfaction with services received as indicated by a semi-annual client satisfaction survey. | https://fspcares.org/ |
Houston Area Women's Center, Inc.
| Houston, Texas | Houston Area Women’s Center (HAWC) is the city’s largest and most comprehensive service provider and advocate for victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, and sex trafficking. As an agency, we envision the day when intimate partners, families, communities, and social norms foster safe, healthy, and empowering relationships. To help bring about that day, we provide immediate access to 24/7 crisis intervention services, ongoing trauma-informed support programs, and violence prevention initiatives to survivors, their support networks, and communities. To deliver our services, the agency leverages over 50 longstanding community partnerships in the public, private and non-profit sector. In 2023, our 150-member staff and 1200 volunteers directly reached 55,385 survivors and community members. | https://hawc.org/ |
Human Options, Inc.
| Irvine, California | Human Options, Inc. ignites social change by educating Orange County to recognize relationship violence as an issue that threatens everyone, advocating for those affected by abuse, extending a safe place for victims, and empowering survivors on their journey of healing. Through this SSAPC grant, Human Options will provide direct services to survivors with its in-house expertise in human-centered design. This project will build on the momentum they have gathered in recent years to place survivor voices front and center in designing future services and ensuring that existing services meet our client's needs (adults and minors), including a Survivor Advisory Council, a Teen Empowerment Group, and a Family Group to include the abusive parent. | https://humanoptions.org/ |
Illinois Coalition Against Domestic Violence
| Springfield, Illinois | Illinois Coalition Against Domestic Violence (ICADV) builds networks of support for and with survivors and advances statewide policies and practices that transform societal attitudes and institutions to eliminate and prevent domestic abuse. The Illinois Coalition Against Domestic Violence (ICADV) will expand the Domestic Violence Co-Location Program (DVCLP). Adapted from evidence-informed programs in other states, the DVCLP is an innovative and collaborative program aimed at meeting the needs of families experiencing both domestic violence and the Child Welfare (CW) system. Focusing on improving the effectiveness of Illinois Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS) interventions into the lives of families experiencing domestic violence and supported by local and statewide partners and stakeholders, the DVCLP places domestic violence advocates in DCFS offices to work with CW professionals and to support families experiencing domestic violence. | https://www.ilcadv.org/ |
Jewish Child Care Association of New York
| Brooklyn, New York | Jewish Child Care Association of New York (JCCA) helps abused, neglected and traumatized children heal physically and emotionally through compassionate, quality care. Their 37 programs include foster care, residential treatment facilities, mental health services, case management, education programs and special services for children who have been the victims of sexual abuse. We serve New York’s neediest and most vulnerable children and families to ensure that their safety, permanency, and well-being leads to a life of stability and promise. JCCA is pleased to submit a proposal to provide individual and group sessions to abused parents/caregivers and their children in Brooklyn, New York. JCCA proposes to serve between 100 to 120 families through this two-year project. JCCA will leverage its over 200 years of expertise as a service provider for youth who experienced trauma and live in marginalized communities to bring best practices to the special circumstances of families impacted by Domestic Violence/Intimate Partner Violence (DV/IPV). JCCA offers services in a structured, safe and trauma-informed environment that meets the specialized needs of families that are victims of domestic violence. | https://www.jccany.org/ |
Kodiak Area Native Association
| Kodiak, Alaska | The Kodiak Area Native Association (KANA) was formed in 1966 as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit corporation providing health and social services to the Kodiak Archipelago, Alaska. KANA’s service area spans 12,024 square miles of sea and land. KANA has provided support services for victims of family violence and those at-risk of family violence. The target population consists of all families within the Kodiak Archipelago who have self-reported experiencing family violence or intimate partner violence, or who have been identified as at-risk due to one or more risk factors. Kana’s programing will deliver evidence-based support services, community-centered and culturally relevant programming, and strengthen regional partnerships as well as the systems they support. In cooperation with the Family Advocate and Child and Family Services Manager age-appropriate victim support services will be extended to the target population in order to address gaps in service delivery as expressed by community stakeholders. Staff expertise and decades of organizational experience will be leveraged to plan ongoing performance measurement and data-driven, continuous quality improvement to project efforts as well as potential insights into rural family violence prevention and services. By increasing our capacity and enhancing our programs, KANA seeks to address the pervasive issue of family violence and support the overall wellbeing of the Kodiak community. | https://kodiakhealthcare.org/ |
License to Freedom
| El Cajon, California | License to Freedom believes immigrants and refugees regardless of gender, country of origin, age, sexual orientation, ability, or religious belief have freedom to thrive and live happy, healthy and fulfilling lives. They acknowledge and amplify the voice and stories of survivors of domestic violence and advocate for social and economic justice. They respect and honor culture through tolerance, understanding and empathy and create safe and inclusive spaces for growth, development, and discourse. They empower refugees and immigrants to overcome barriers that limit their success by encouraging their personal and professional growth. They promote and encourage healthy relationships, community building, and community development through social engagement and positive community support systems. Services under this project will include Case management, parenting support, trauma-informed counseling, early childhood development, youth development, peer support group, outreach and education, and training and technical assistance. | https://licensetofreedom.org/ |
Maine Coalition to End Domestic Violence
| Augusta, Maine | The Maine Coalition to End Domestic Violence (MCEDV) serves their network of nine members throughout the state, helping them do the very best work they can for survivors of abuse. They also provide support for state level partners as they respond to abuse, create frameworks to inform the public's understanding of the issue, and advocate for policies that will hold abusive people to account and keep survivors safe. MCEDV will develop and launch Maine's first pre- petition legal representation program, contracting with a small pool of private attorneys with expertise in advocating on behalf of survivors of domestic abuse and violence to represent victim/survivor parents with their legal needs during the early stages of Maine's child welfare system being involved with the family. MCEDV's Program Coordinator will screen referrals and make arrangements for representation. Eligible parents will live in either Androscoggin or Aroostook County, two counties with significantly higher than average child removal rates. MCEDV offers training, consultation, and technical assistance to statewide and multi-regional entities, seeking to improve their responses to domestic abuse. MCEDV strives to bring the voices of survivors to discussions of public policy, and to center our solutions on those most impacted by abuse. MCEDV engages in collaborative initiatives that further our mission and address the root causes of abuse. | https://www.mcedv.org/ |
Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital
| Lebanon, New Hampshire | Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital, DBA Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, One Medical Center Drive, Department of Psychiatry, Dartmouth Trauma (Colburn Hill), Lebanon, NH. Project Align will target caregiver survivors of family, domestic, dating, and interpersonal violence (referred to as DV) and their children ages 0-18 in Sullivan and Grafton County NH and Windsor County VT, making up the community known as the Connecticut River “Upper Valley.” Survivors of domestic violence (DV) and their children currently have no access to DV in-house mental health (MH) support and have many barriers to these supports in the community. Currently, the DV agencies do not receive mental health (MH) or trauma-informed care (TIC) consultation, and there is little guidance for cross-sector professionals to help align trauma-informed, DV-survivor centric practices, especially between MH, child welfare, and DV sectors. | https://www.dartmouth-hitchcock.org/ |
Mission Righteous Roots
| Gatesville, Texas | Mission Righteous Roots provides non-residential client services to help individuals and families in crisis and those that are victims of domestic violence, assault, and anyone suffering from past or present trauma-related abuse. The project will build organizational and community capacity to reduce the pervasive and harmful impact of violence and trauma. This project will span five counties in Central Texas, including Bell, Bosque, Coryell, Hamilton, Lampasas, and McLennan. Within this service area, challenges include a gap in trauma and evidence-informed supportive services, a lack of data regarding the impact of crimes against victims, and silos in communication between service providers and community resources. Mission Righteous Roots provides confidential support services and information for domestic violence and sexual assault survivors and their friends and family through their crisis call line that is currently accessible during office hours Monday-Thursday 9AM-5PM they are closed between the hours of 12pm-1pm for lunch. If you call our crisis line here are the services, you can expect:
| https://righteousroots.org/ |
Nassau Coalition Against Domestic Violence (The Safe Center LI, Inc.)
| Bethpage, New York | The Safe Center is a direct service agency responding to the needs of individuals and families that have been impacted by domestic violence/intimate partner violence, rape & sexual assault, child abuse and human trafficking. The Safe Center programs and services are multilingual, confidential, and available to all persons regardless of race, creed, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, military status, marital status, disability, or age. the Parent-Child DV Project is to strengthen relationships between children and their non-abusive parents, which increases resiliency and accelerates the healing process. Secondary outcomes of the Parent-Child DV project are the prevention of the intergenerational transmission of domestic violence and adding to the data set around effective services for DV victims and their children. | https://thesafecenterli.org/ |
| National Center for Economics | Crest Hill, Illinois | The Illinois Youth and Family Services is headquartered in Joliet, Illinois, and the project will primarily serve the Joliet area. The project aims to address several interrelated problems faced by abused parents and their children in Joliet, Illinois. These problems are multi-faceted, encompassing physical, economic, and Joliet Illinois has experienced significant domestic violence issues. Data from local law enforcement indicates a pressing need for targeted interventions to support victims and prevent further occurrences. The program will offer individual and group counseling sessions for at least 100 abused parents and their children within the first year, including bilingual services to accommodate the significant Hispanic/Latino population in Joliet. We will provide resources and training to non-abusing parents to help them support their children's social, emotional, and developmental needs and facilitate peer support groups for these parents. Community awareness and engagement will be enhanced through at least ten workshops and outreach events annually, partnering with local schools, healthcare providers, and community organizations. Our target audience includes abused parents and their children, particularly marginalized and underserved communities in Joliet. | www.ncfeco.org |
Nevada Urban Indians, Inc.
| Reno, Nevada | The Nevada Urban Indians, Inc. (NUI) Victim Services Program assists survivors of crime in recovering and thriving after a victimization. Their advocates are prepared to walk with you through the recovery process to achieve stability, autonomy, and confidence. They provide direct services, guidance, and support while working closely with other NUI and community programs to ensure vital needs are met and individuals and families are safe. NUI strives to break the cycle of violence. The Specialized Services for Abused Parents and their Children - Northern Nevada Program specific activities and services provided through this funding will be:
| https://www.nevadaurbanindians.org/ |
New York Asian Women's Center, Inc. dba Womankind
| New York, New York | Womankind specializes in serving Asian survivors of gender-based violence (GBV), including domestic violence, human trafficking, and sexual violence, but what they offer is valuable to all. Womankind offers survivors of gender-based violence in a holistic way—from supportive counseling and legal assistance to emergency housing (shelter) and wellness groups. No two healing journeys look the same, and the combination of services are endless. Free and confidential help is available in 18+ Asian languages and dialects, English and Spanish. | https://www.iamwomankind.org/ |
Northern Virginia Family Service, Inc.
| Falls Church, Virginia | Northern Virginia Family Service’s (NVFS) breadth, depth and scope of services offer the resources and support to ensure that everyone in need, at every stage of life, maximizes their potential and fully contributes to a thriving community. They provide the essential building blocks for financial, emotional and physical well-being, serving as leaders and innovators for the Northern Virginia community. Every year, NVFS empowers more than 30,000 individuals to achieve self-sufficiency. With these essential resources, our community is better equipped for future success and engagement among all of our neighbors. The Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault Prevention in Immigrant Communities program will address the needs of immigrant DV and SA victims/survivors. The proposed DV prevention services are 1) age-specific workshops for children and youth who have experienced or been exposed to DV and 2) psychoeducational workshops for non-abusing parents in immigrant communities. | https://www.nvfs.org/ |
Oklahoma City Family Justice Center, Inc.
| Oklahoma City, Oklahoma | Oklahoma City Family Justice Center, Inc. envisions an Oklahoma City that is free from violence, where everyone feels safe and secure. This is done by working together to interrupt the cycle of violence and abuse. By acting as a catalyst to create a community and culture that is free from violence. Providing long-term support for victims and their children to heal from trauma. Holding offenders accountable and empowering survivors to thrive. | https://palomarokc.org/ |
One LoveLife Center, Inc.
| Temple Hills, Maryland | In Prince George's County, Maryland, there exists a critical need for culturally and trauma informed support services tailored to low-income adults of color, teens, LGBTQIA+ individuals, and senior communities. Despite the county's diverse population, there are significant gaps in violence survivor support services specifically designed to address the unique needs of these marginalized groups. Many individuals within these communities face systemic barriers to accessing adequate support, including language barriers, lack of culturally competent care, and stigma surrounding mental health and trauma. As a result, survivors often suffer in silence and struggle to access the resources they need to heal and rebuild their lives. By implementing a comprehensive program that prioritizes cultural responsiveness and trauma-informed care, we aim to bridge these gaps and provide inclusive support services that empower survivors to heal and thrive. | https://onelovelifecenter.org/new/ |
One Place Metro Alabama Family Justice Center
| Birmingham, Alabama | One Place Metro Alabama Family Justice Center (One Place) seeks to improve outcomes for adult victims of family violence and their children, by addressing the immediate and generational effects of abuse, trauma, and adverse childhood experiences. One Place’s project proposal will 1) enhance existing trauma-informed counseling, advocacy, and social support services to households impacted by family violence; 2) create a new, unique Family Victim Service Coordinator professional position within Jefferson County, Alabama to maintain a long-term, service and referral relationship with adult victims of family violence and their children; 3) coordinate and increase advocacy of adult victims of family violence and their children; and, 4) utilize an evidence-based, trauma-informed curriculum to provide year-round, continual support for children of victims of violence.: | https://oneplacebirmingham.com/ |
Our House, Inc.
| Atlanta, Georgia | Our House’s Safe and Healthy Families program empowers and supports children and families impacted by domestic violence through a comprehensive approach that is trauma-informed, culturally specific, and linguistically appropriate. The program will offer shelter for families with young children. Rapid Rehousing: Aims to quickly move families experiencing homelessness due to domestic violence to permanent housing through various assistance programs. Physical and Mental Health: Offers nursing practitioner-led community health interventions including preventive, reproductive, pediatric, and mental healthcare services. Early Childhood Education (ECE): Free, year-round, nationally accredited program addressing the effects of domestic violence and homelessness on children's learning and wellbeing. Workforce Development Training: Provides opportunities for personal and economic growth, including financial literacy workshops, employment training referrals, and a Child Development Associate (CDA) Certification program. Advocacy: Family Advocates provide individualized case management, connecting families with needed resources and support services. | https://ourhousega.org/ |
Progressive Life Center, Inc.
| Washington, DC | Progressive Life Center (PLC) Project Title: Family Strength: Empowering Families and Protecting Futures will address the urgent needs of Black and LGBTQ+ residents in Prince George’s County, Maryland, who are victims of family violence, domestic violence, or dating violence. Our comprehensive program will provide culturally sensitive support and interventions to enhance the safety, well-being, and empowerment of these vulnerable populations while seeking to develop an evidence-based model for duplication. Year one of programming will focus on expanding partnerships, conducting community engagement activities and starting service provision to 24 families and training for 15 educators, providers and/or first responders. Year two will solidify partnerships, continue service to 48 families, and education efforts training 30 educators, providers and/or first responders. | https://plccommunity.org/ |
Puertas Abiertas Inc.
| Grand Rapids, Michigan | Puertas Abiertas is a nonprofit organization that has served over a thousand five hundred Latinx women, men, and children/adolescents who are survivors of domestic and intimate partner violence, sexual assault, trafficking, and work discrimination. Puertas Abiertas specializes in aiding the Latinx community, particularly women, to live violence-free and make healthy relationship choices. It provides free, culturally sensitive mental health, advocacy, and victim services. The organization seeks to address the rising need for affordable housing due to market tightness, leading to evictions and increased domestic abuse. Puertas Abiertas offers emergency shelter, including rented apartments and hotel accommodations, ensuring that 98% of clients have children and safe housing. Their approach includes bilingual advocacy, legal support, counseling, and wraparound services tailored to the Latinx community's unique needs. The organization empowers survivors through trauma-informed care, involving them in their recovery process and providing group support to enhance healing. the rising need for shelter and comprehensive support due to financial and housing instability, Puertas Abiertas is committed to breaking the cycle of violence. | https://puertasabiertasgr.org/en |
Raksha, Inc.
| Atlanta, Georgia | Raksha, meaning protection, is a local GA non-profit serving the South Asian community since 1995. Raksha’s mission is to promote a stronger and healthier South Asian community through confidential support services, education, and advocacy. Raksha, Inc. 24-month pilot program, Shakti (Strength)-Helping Abused South Asian Parents Strengthen Their Relationship with Their Children, seeks to enhance the parenting skills, emotional well-being, and resilience of South Asian survivors of domestic violence and their children in Georgia. This program will provide trauma-informed parenting education, personalized support, family activities, peer support, and opportunities for rest. | https://www.raksha.org/ |
Rhode Island Coalition Against Domestic Violence
| Warwick, Rhode Island | Safety and Resilience for Survivors and Their Children in Rhode Island Project will improve Rhode Island’s domestic violence prevention and response systems and equip Rhode Island’s domestic violence agencies to more fully and effectively respond to the wide range of needs of victims of domestic violence and their children. This project will focus on three primary objectives: 1) training domestic violence service providers at the RICADV’s four full member agencies to strengthen and increase the capacity of the RICADV and its member agencies to apply an evidence-based, comprehensive, systems approach to domestic violence service provision and prevention; 2) providing evidence-informed training to Rhode Island’s Department of Children, Youth and Families to improve its response to and involvement with families experiencing domestic violence, with a focus on the non-abusing parent and their children; and 3) expanding services provided to victims of domestic violence and their children throughout the state of Rhode Island to provide a greater level of support, advocacy, safety, and healing options. These expanded services will include counseling services to survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault; creative expression workshops for trauma survivors; a creative arts therapy program; advocacy for children staying in residential programs; outreach to abused parents that speak Spanish and Portuguese; and referrals to and from our Safe Exchange and Supervised Visitation Center. The target population for this project is non-abusing adult victims of domestic violence and their children and youth living in Rhode Island, with a focus in Providence and northern RI on victims speaking Spanish and Portuguese. | https://ricadv.org/ |
Safe Futures, Inc.
| New London, Connecticut | Safe Futures saves lives, restores hope, and changes the future for those impacted by domestic violence, sexual assault, stalking, and trafficking in southeastern Connecticut. Their hotline is available for anyone who feels unsafe 365 days a year, 24 hours a day. All services are free and confidential. The mission of Safe Futures is stopping abuse, restoring hope, and saving lives of those impacted by domestic violence, sexual assault, stalking, trafficking, child abuse, and elder abuse in southeastern Connecticut. Safe Futures strives to eliminate violence in our community so that southeastern Connecticut becomes a place:
| https://safefuturesct.org/ |
Safe Harbor, Inc.
| Greenville, South Carolina | Safe Harbor offers a continuum of services for survivors of domestic abuse and their children in Greenville, Anderson, Pickens and Oconee Counties. Their services include a 24/7 help line, safe emergency shelters, counseling for survivors and their children, case management, assistance with filing for an Order of Protection, transitional housing, domestic abuse education and parenting classes, and group support. Safe Harbor will address this need across our 4-county service area in Upstate South Carolina by implementing a new Child and Family Therapy program to provide therapy to children and parents exposed to domestic abuse. Safe Harbor will implement Accelerated Resolution Therapy (ART) and other age-appropriate therapeutic interventions to provide trauma-informed, clinical therapy services to children ages 6-17 exposed to domestic abuse and family therapy sessions with children and the non-abusive parent. | https://www.safeharborsc.org/ |
Safehouse Progressive Alliance for Nonviolence, Inc.
| Boulder, Colorado | Safehouse Progressive Alliance for Nonviolence (SPAN) is for funding from the Family Violence Prevention & Services Discretionary Grants: Specialized Services for Abused Parents and Their Children (Demonstration Projects) program to support a comprehensive continuum of services for at-risk children and youth who have been exposed to domestic violence and their non-abusing parent. The goal of SPAN’s Child & Youth Resiliency Program (CYRP) is to increase and enhance evidence-based, culturally relevant, trauma responsive strategies, advocacy, and systems responses to families experiencing domestic violence. The CYRP is an ideal demonstration project, with intensive parenting support and evidence-based interventions as survivors and their children are first emerging from crisis and trauma and then sustains these innovative services as families rebuild their lives after violence and instability. The CYRP will implement Let’s Connect® as its primary parenting support program, beginning while children/youth and their non-abusing parents are staying at SPAN’s Emergency Shelter for survivors and their children. Let’s Connect® (LC; letsconnect.org), developed by partners at the University of Colorado’s Institute of Behavioral Science/Center on Resilience & Well-Being (CRW), is a trauma-responsive, dyadic intervention for children and their caregivers. | https://www.safehousealliance.org/ |
Southern Arizona Children's Advocacy Center, Inc.
| Tucson, Arizona | The Children’s Advocacy Center of Southern Arizona (CACSOAZ), a nonprofit organization based in and serving Pima County, Arizona with a demonstrated record of serving Hispanic and low-income victims of family violence and their children, will expand its capacity to serve adult, child, and youth victims/survivors and prevent future domestic violence. Through expanded services for abused parents and their children that includes co-located services for counseling, legal services, shelter, financial support, and assistance through the criminal justice process, CACSOAZ will double the number of families it currently serves and provide substantive data to build the knowledge base for domestic violence programs, supporting the purpose of the funding and including all required activities. Leveraging its 28-year history, the Family Justice Center best practice program model, and many successful partnerships, CACSOAZ will provide:
| https://www.cacsoaz.org/ |
Southern Indian Health Council, Inc.
| Alpine, California | Southern Indian Health Council is a Native American organization committed to protecting and improving the physical, mental, and spiritual health of the American Indian community. They provide a comprehensive range of wellness, professional health care, dental, and social services. The Prevention and Early Intervention program provides services to community members in a trust-worthy, culturally sensitive, and customer service oriented. Our program offers a trauma informed care approach to individuals (ages five and older), couples, and families. This Project will support the needed counseling, legal services, and case management for abused parents and their children to become self-sufficient and financially independent. Project Safe (PS) and Indian Child Social Services (ICSS) both work with victimized families with PS focus on domestic violence, dating violence, stalking, and sexual assault with ICSS works closely with CWS for families facing child abuse and neglect concerns. Services include:
| https://sihc.org/ |
Southwest Georgia Children's Alliance, Inc.
| Americus, Georgia | The Southwest Georgia Children’s Alliance, Inc. (the Alliance) headquartered in Americus, Georgia, serves 17 counties within one of the nation’s poorest congressional districts. The Alliance has a long history of providing intervention for victims of violence, with caseloads increasing by around 10% annually. Despite ongoing efforts, there is a critical gap in addressing the root causes of generational victimization, necessitating comprehensive assessments and preventive education. The project seeks to expand and enhance the Alliance’s comprehensive services in Sumter County. As the region’s primary resource for children and families, the Alliance operates the only Child Advocacy Center, non-shelter Domestic Violence program, and Children in Need of Services (CHINS) programming across six counties and runs the sole CASA program in these six counties plus an additional 11 counties all while collaborating with numerous local agencies and schools. | https://sowegachildren.org/ |
Tennessee Coalition to End Domestic and Sexual Violence
| Nashville, Tennessee | Tennessee Coalition to End Domestic and Sexual Violence has grown from the 5 programs that began in 1983 to more than 60 programs today. Their mission is to end domestic and sexual violence in the lives of Tennesseans and to change societal attitudes and institutions that promote and condone violence, through public policy advocacy, education and activities that increase the capacity of programs and communities to address such violence. TCEDSV will work with the demonstration site at Mary Parrish Center (MPC) to develop & enhance community-based interventions for children & youth exposed to domestic violence. | https://tncoalition.org/ |
The Chickasaw Nation
| Ada, Oklahoma | Violence Prevention Services offers a variety of services to assist victims of domestic violence, sexual assault and stalking who are residing or relocating within the Chickasaw Nation boundaries. These services are voluntary and available to First American victims and their dependents, and others who meet eligibility criteria. Services: Emergency shelter Group/individual counseling Career development Transportation Advocacy/emotional support Tribal/community resources Relocation assistance Safety planning Protection orders Case management Follow-up and home visits Sexual assault exams Domestic violence and intimate partner violence exams Strangulation exams | https://www.chickasaw.net/Services/Family/Domestic-Violence-Services |
The Children's Cabinet, Inc.
| Reno, Nevada | At The Children’s Cabinet, their mission is to keep children safe and families together. They provide programs and services at no charge to youth and their families in our community. they support young children to young adults, so that they can thrive within their schools, their families, and their neighborhoods. There is no wrong door, and they will ensure those who need us are provided the proper resources regardless of their circumstances. They are dedicated to supporting parents through every step of the parent-child relationship. Whether your little one is learning their first steps, or you are looking to better connect with your teenager using family counseling, they are here for you and the programs are free. The initiatives of The Children’s Cabinet evolve to fit the needs of the families, individuals, and businesses that reside in Nevada. This project will improve and expand response systems to families that have been affected by domestic violence. Including, expanding the community’s capacity to serve abused parents and their children by providing evidence-based trauma-informed counseling interventions, as well as to provide comprehensive support to resources to bridge the gap between a domestic violence crisis and longer-term counseling support. | https://www.childrenscabinet.org/ |
The Regents of the Univ. of Calif., U.C. San Diego
| La Jolla, California | The University of California, San Diego (UCSD) is partnering with SBCS, an organization dedicated to serving domestic violence (DV) survivors and their families. Specifically, this project will partner with SBCS’s Mi Escuelita Therapeutic Preschool program to advance the field of DV prevention through a multigenerational frame in the proposed project, Multigenerational DV Prevention: Behavior, Attachment, & Co-Created Curriculum. UCSD will lead a community engaged research and evaluation effort with the goals of: (1) collaborating with adult DV survivors/lived experience experts to co-create DV prevention curricula for children across developmental stages; and (2) serving as external evaluators to rigorously assess the Mi Escuelita program, thereby building practice-based evidence and showcasing Mi Escuelita as an evidence informed program with outcomes linked to disrupting the cycle of violence. SBCS’ Mi Escuelita Therapeutic Preschool supports children aged 2-5 who have experienced early childhood trauma resulting from exposure to DV. Mi Escuelita aims to provide a safe, nurturing environment for children to heal and thrive. The program serves children and families in San Diego’s South Region, a predominantly Hispanic and bilingual community characterized by high DV rates and economic disadvantage. | ocga.ucsd.edu |
| The Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital | Columbus, Ohio | Nationwide Children’s mission is to make a difference in the lives o children in Columbus, Ohio as well as across the country and around the world by using research to provide remarkable advances that will improve the outcomes for children everywhere. Nationwide Children’s Hospital acknowledges the significant role that research has in improving child health with a focus on translating discoveries into best outcomes to all kids. | Seeking Answers to Reach Best Outcomes |
| The Salvation Army | Syracuse, New York | The Salvation Army Syracuse Area Services (SAS), a community-based organization with a long history of providing domestic violence services, currently has only one full-time staff member managing both visitation and clinical clients, leading to waitlists. This Program is a comprehensive application led by SAS in partnership with Onondaga County Department of Children and Family Services (OCDCFS), with the assistance of sub grantee Syracuse University. This program will accomplish three objectives. Objective 1 aims to improve systems and responses through collaborative referral pathways with the child welfare system, specifically OCDCFS. | www.sasyr.org |
Umbrella
| St. Johnsbury, Vermont | Umbrella’s mission is to cultivate a Northeast Kingdom where all people thrive free from abuse and oppression. They believe that oppression and the systemic abuse of power is at the root of domestic and sexual violence, stalking, teen dating violence, human trafficking, as well as violence related to gender or sexual orientation — which in total is characterized as gender-based violence. They seek to embody a world where those who have been disempowered by poverty, discrimination and other obstacles are able to live peaceful, self-directed lives. Umbrella will implement an expansion of its effective Healing Together project, a FVPSA Specialized Services for Abused Parents and Their Children Discretionary Grants program, to develop specialized, trauma-informed, developmentally and age-appropriate, culturally relevant, and linguistically accessible services for non-abusing parents, children, and youth who are exposed to family violence, domestic violence, or dating violence (FV/DV) in Vermont’s rural Caledonia, Essex, Orleans, Franklin, and Grand Isle Counties and Chittenden Regional Correctional Facility. Activities will address critical systemic gaps in child- and family-focused FV/DV services, supporting parents and children together. Healing Together objectives and sub objectives are to: (1) partner with the Vermont Network Against Domestic and Sexual Violence, Vermont’s DV/SV Coalition; Voices Against Violence, a local DV advocacy and supervised visitation provider; DIVAS and LUND/Kids-A-Part programs for incarcerated women; and state level partners, to improve systems to support abused parents and their children and youth who have been exposed to FV/DV. | https://www.umbrellanek.org/ |
Women Shelter of Long Beach
| Long Beach, California | The Women Shelter Long Beach (WSLB) Youth Expansion Initiative aims to provide stability, guidance, encouragement, and positive role models for at-risk young people in Greater Long Beach who have been exposed to violence. WSLB will expand and strengthen services to the youth in Long Beach by building on our successful youth program. Our aim is to impact underserved communities and populations, specifically Cambodian youth. The proposed initiative will widen our reach to include new partners and establish a coalition of youth-serving organizations and entities. Objectives and activities include the following:
| https://www.womenshelterlb.org/ |
Working Against Violence for Everyone
| Petersburg, Alaska | Working Against Violence for Everyone (WAVE), a beacon of hope and support for survivors of domestic violence, sexual assault, and stalking. WAVE is a compassionate advocate for survivors of domestic violence, sexual assault, and stalking, providing confidential support and empowerment. Grounded in core values of compassion, respect, and safety, WAVE works tirelessly to create safer, healthier communities through survivor-centered advocacy and prevention programs. WAVE proposes to expand its services to include Child and Family Services. WAVE's primary partner on this project will be WISH, who will build WAVE's capacity and supplement the emerging WAVE program by providing stopgap services to Petersburg as well as other outlying communities in WISH's service delivery area. This partnership will expand existing counseling, parenting education, family advocacy, and victim services to non-abusing parents/caregivers and their children in Southern Southeast Alaska to include Petersburg, Alaska. | https://www.petersburgwave.org/ |
Young Women's Christian Association Kalamazoo, Michigan
| Kalamazoo, Michigan | YWCA Kalamazoo (YWCA)will implement evidence-based programs, Moms Empowerment Program and Kids Club. This project will provide 70 moms and 70 children per year access to supportive programming to improve relationships, reduce violence, and provide information and education on family violence. The Moms’ Empowerment Program supports mothers by fostering an environment where they can discuss the impact of violence on their lives and on their child’s development; build parenting competence; discuss parenting fears and worries; and build social support in the context of a supportive group, share resources and develop social capital. This intervention is aimed at improving mothers’ parenting skills, social support, and social capital, and reducing stress, thereby reducing the children’s behavioral and adjustment difficulties. The Kids’ Club targets children's attitudes and beliefs about families and family violence, their emotional adjustment, and their social behavior. Groups are age-graded (6-12 years) and Gender mixed. This program was designed to provide a supportive environment for children to share their experiences, to learn that they are not alone in their exposure to violence, and to identify sources of worry and concern. | https://www.ywcakalamazoo.org/ |
Youth & Family Services, Inc.
| Rapid City, South Dakota | Youth & Family Services (YFS) is a nonprofit organization that has been serving children and their families since 1965. YFS has grown to become one of the largest, most comprehensive youth development programs in western South Dakota. What began as Girls Club of Rapid City has grown to encompass nine cohesive programs that offer education, meals and snacks, health advocacy and support, counseling services, fatherhood and parent enrichment education, and prevention programs. | https://www.youthandfamilyservices.org/ |
| YWCA Northeast Indiana | Fort Wayne, Indiana | YWCA Northeast Indiana is dedicated to eliminating racism, empowering women, and promoting peace, justice, freedom, and dignity for all. Their 24/7 crisis line provides help and support for anyone who in crisis because of domestic violence or sexual assault. The project plans to implement a two-generation approach to domestic violence prevention and response. Two-generation approach (2Gen) is an evidence-based service model where the needs of vulnerable children and their parent are addressed both together and individually through services. YWCA’s 2Gen approach will also include training and prevention targeted to populations vulnerable to domestic violence, such as students, and adult responders to domestic violence, such as law enforcement. | https://ywcanein.org/ |
For more information about SSAPC programs please visit: 2020 - 2024 Family Violence Prevention and Services Discretionary Grant: Specialized Services to Abused Parents and Their Children (SSAPC) | The Administration for Children and Families