[Tribal-drug-courts] New Solicitation: Domestic Violence Mentor Courts

Tue Jul 15 12:30:46 CDT 2014

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OVW FY 2014 Justice for Families Program: Domestic Violence Mentor Court Initiative Solicitation Grant

Our friends at the National Drug Court Institute have shared this RFP.

The Office on Violence Against Women has a new solicitation OVW FY2014 Justice for Families Program: Domestic Violence Mentor Court Initiative Solicitation Grant.  The grant closes on August 22, 2014. The Justice for Families Program: Domestic Violence Mentor Court Initiative creates a unique opportunity to recognize well-established specialized courts and enable them to guide other courts and court-based programs that wish to significantly improve their court responses to domestic violence cases and ensure victim safety and offender accountability. For FY 2014, OVW is accepting applications for continuation and new Mentor Court projects. With funding under the Mentor Court Initiative, OVW will support projects that operate a full-time court system with a specialized process for handling domestic violence cases.

Below is information related to the grant.

Eligibility:   Applicants are limited to federal, state, tribal, territorial, or local courts that are current Mentor Court grantees or new applicants with an existing specialized court system for handling domestic violence
and sexual assault cases.

Domestic violence model courts can be an efficient structure for addressing the comprehensive issues that face families dealing with abuse. Yet as domestic violence courts continue to develop across the country, jurisdictions wishing to develop these courts often do not know where to turn for best practices. For this reason, OVW has been engaged in an effort to develop and spread best practices for domestic violence courts. OVW is expanding this initiative for the purpose of
identifying effective adaptations of domestic violence court models and linking them to other jurisdictions striving to improve their processes for handling domestic violence cases. In addition, the Mentor Court Initiative serves as a clearinghouse for sharing best practices and procedures and disseminating strategies and solutions for replication that will help build the capacity of court systems responding to domestic violence matters. The Mentor Court Initiative creates a unique opportunity to recognize well-established specialized courts and enable them to guide other courts and court-based programs that wish to significantly improve their court responses to domestic violence cases and ensure victim safety and offender accountability.  For FY 2014, OVW is accepting applications for continuation and new Mentor Court projects. With funding under the Mentor Court Initiative, OVW will support projects that operate a full-time court system with a specialized process for handling domestic violence cases.

Link to solicitation:  http://www.ovw.usdoj.gov/docs/fy2014-mentor-court-solicitation.pdf

Other Healing to Wellness Court Federal Funding RFP:

·         Enhancements to Juvenile Drug Courts FY 2014<http://www.wellnesscourts.org/files/FY14%20Enhancement%20to%20Juvenile%20Drug%20Courts.pdf> (Due: July 23, 2014)

·         OJJDP FY 2014 Tribal Healing to Wellness Court Responses to Underage Drinking Initiative<http://www.wellnesscourts.org/files/FY14%20OJJDP%20Juvenile%20Tribal%20Healing%20to%20Wellness%20Courts%20RFP.pdf> (Due: August 1, 2014)

·         See all available Healing to Wellness Court Federal Funding opportunities at www.wellnesscourts.org/federal-funding-agencies/<http://www.wellnesscourts.org/federal-funding-agencies/>
Upcoming Trainings:

·         Tribal Healing to Wellness Court Enhancement Training<enhtraining.tlpi.org> ~ September 8-10, 2014 ~ Albuquerque, NM

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