Grants To Reduce Domestic Violence.

The Grants to Reduce Domestic Violence, Dating Violence, Sexual Assault, and Stalking on Campus Program popularly known as Campus Program is delineated with the motive to encourage and strengthen higher education institutions to endorse responses in a comprehensive and coordinated manner to reduce the said violence often faced by young girls.

Campuses in alliance with local civil, legal or criminal justice agencies and nonprofit victim advocacy organizations, which are community based, should espouse those policies and protocols that consider any act of violence against women as a grim misdemeanor.They should also establish victim service programs that assure safety of victim, offender’s accountability and the deterrence of such crimes.

No doubt, many campuses have initiated to develop campus-based responses such as campus law enforcement, campus victim services, campus administration, student organizations, housing authorities, health services and disciplinary boards to address violent crimes against women but the need is to address the latent causes of violence against women by establishing programs that delve to bring about change in attitudes and beliefs that allow and encourage such unaccepted behavior.

Colleges and universities need to exhibit through their protocols, policies and actions that any form of violence against women will not be tolerated and it constitutes crime with serious legal consequences.

Higher education institutions under the Higher Education Amendments of 1998 are eligible to apply for this grant program. The Office on Violence Against Women is responsible for administering this grant and particularly supports those projects which are submitted by Tribal Colleges and Universities, Historically Black Colleges and Universities, Universities and Colleges serving primarily populations of Latino or Hispanic and Universities and Colleges based in the territories of Puerto, Guam, Northern Mariana Islands, Virgin Islands and American Samoa.

The higher education institutions applying this grant should put forward proposal of the activities that should be at least implemented such as creation of a coordinated community response or multidisciplinary response to violence against women on campus involving entire campus and community where it is located.

Campuses seeking grant should also forge partnerships with minimum one local nonprofit and nongovernmental victim advocacy organization and one or more civil legal or criminal justice agencies.

There is a need to regularly review the policies, procedures and protocols of member organizations by coordinated campus and community response teams. These institutions should also constitute a mandatory prevention and education program for all incoming students on violence against women in teamwork with campus and community-based victim advocacy organizations.

Campus police should be trained to effectively deal with the above said cases and along with it programs to train members of disciplinary boards on campus should also be strengthened to effectively deal with the charges of violence against women.

Overall, all those programs, policies and strategies should be adopted and implemented that can efficaciously handle violence against women on campus.
For detailed information regarding this grant program and its set standards, Office on Violence Against Women (OVW) in Washington can be contacted at 202-307-6026.

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