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The Administration on Children and Families (ACYF) and the Office of Family Violence Prevention and Services (OFVPS) are very pleased to announce the availability of funding through the Family Violence Prevention Services Act (FVPSA Program). The Standing Announcement for Family Violence Prevention and Services/Domestic Violence Shelter and Supportive Services/Grants to States. 

The Domestic Violence Resource Network (DVRN) informs and strengthens domestic violence intervention and prevention efforts at the individual, community, and societal levels. DVRN member organizations are funded by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to work collaboratively to promote practices and strategies to improve our nation’s response to domestic violence and make safety and justice a priority.

The Family Violence Prevention and Services Act (FVPSA) program will award $550 million to grantees to support COVID-19 testing, vaccines, and mobile health units for millions of domestic violence survivors nationwide.

The Family Violence Prevention and Services Act (FVPSA) program will award $198 million in supplemental American Rescue Plan funding to states, territories, and tribal grantees to provide additional supports survivors and victims of sexual assault during COVID-19 public health emergency. With these supplemental funds, FVPSA grant programs will be able to provide critical supports to even more families all across the country.

The Family Violence Prevention and Services Act (FVPSA) program will award $550 million to grantees to support COVID-19 testing, vaccines, and mobile health units for millions of domestic violence survivors nationwide. These funds will reduce the barriers to health services that help mitigate the spread of the virus for domestic violence survivors, including in rural communities and in the geographically isolated Alaskan Native villages, and will promote the health and well-being of adults and children exposed to domestic violence. This historic investment will provide 296 supplemental grant awards that will reach states, territories, tribes. This funding will research thousands of programs across the country including 1,500 local domestic violence shelters, as well as 252 tribal domestic violence programs. 

The FY2020 Family Violence Prevention and Services State and Territory grants total more than $110 million. 

State Domestic Violence Coalitions received a total of $15,850,000 for FY2020.

States and territories have received almost $35 million in supplemental funding under the CARES Act to support FVPSA grantees during the COVID-19 public health emergency. 

The CARES Act provided $4.5 million to FVPSA-funded state domestic violence coalitions to help with their expenses related to the COVID-19 public health emergency.

New guidance from FYSB on allowable use of funds and reporting instructions related to the FY2020 CARES Act.