Family Violence Prevention and Services Discretionary Grants: Specialized Services to Abused Parents and their Children (Demonstration Projects) | HHS 2024 ACF OFVPS EV 0039

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The Family Violence Prevention and Services Discretionary Grants: Specialized Services to Abused Parents and their Children (Demonstration Projects) is a federal funding opportunity administered by the Administration for Children and Families (ACF) through the Office of Family Violence Prevention and Services (OFVPS). It is a discretionary cooperative agreement program (CFDA 93.592) designed to fund demonstration projects that strengthen and expand community capacity to prevent future family violence, domestic violence, and dating violence. The central emphasis is on improving how victim service systems respond to families where a parent has experienced abuse and where children have been exposed to domestic violence, including situations where child abuse and neglect may be happening at the same time or as a related impact of domestic violence. In practical terms, the grant is aimed at supporting more effective, better coordinated, and more specialized services that address both the safety and recovery needs of abused parents and the developmental, emotional, and trauma-related needs of their children.

OFVPS expects to make 50 awards under this announcement, with an award ceiling of $450,000 per project. Because these are described as demonstration projects, the intent is not just to maintain existing services, but to test, implement, and document approaches that meaningfully expand service capacity and can inform broader practice across the domestic violence field. The projects are meant to help coalitions, local programs, and community-based providers build stronger programming for children exposed to domestic violence and to better respond to the overlapping dynamics of domestic violence and child maltreatment. While the summary does not list specific required service models, the framing makes clear that priority is placed on specialized, child- and family-focused strategies that improve prevention outcomes and reduce future violence by addressing the needs of children as part of the family system.

Eligibility is grounded in FVPSA statutory language (42 U.S.C. 10412(b)). Eligible applicants include local agencies that serve a local jurisdiction, nonprofit private organizations (including faith-based and charitable organizations, community-based organizations, and voluntary associations) that provide services for a city, county, region, state, or territory, and tribal organizations serving tribal communities. The opportunity also lists eligible applicant types such as public and state-controlled institutions of higher education, private institutions of higher education, federally recognized Native American tribal governments, and nonprofits with or without 501(c)(3) status (as long as they meet the program requirements). A key threshold requirement is that applicants must have a demonstrated record of serving victims of family violence, domestic violence, and dating violence and their children. If an applicant is not a direct domestic violence victim services provider and is not an HHS-designated state domestic violence coalition, it must still show a history of meaningful, collaborative partnerships with local, state, and/or domestic violence service providers. This is an important point because it signals that applicants must be connected to the established domestic violence service ecosystem and able to coordinate effectively around safety, confidentiality, and survivor-centered practices rather than operating in isolation.

The announcement is also explicit about who cannot apply. Individuals, including sole proprietorships, are not eligible. Foreign entities are not eligible. Applications from these ineligible applicant types will be disqualified from merit review and funding consideration. At the same time, faith-based organizations are explicitly welcomed as eligible applicants if they meet the same requirements as any other organization. The notice states that ACF will not discriminate in the selection of recipients based on an organization’s religious character, affiliation, or exercise, and it references the applicable protections and requirements under 45 CFR Part 87 and 42 U.S.C. 2000bb et seq. The takeaway is that religiously affiliated organizations can compete for awards on equal footing, but they still must meet all programmatic eligibility and capacity expectations.

Administratively, the funding opportunity number is HHS-2024-ACF-OFVPS-EV-0039, and the original application closing date listed is June 12, 2024 (with a creation date of April 12, 2024). The activity category is Income Security and Social Services, reflecting its placement in the broader federal assistance landscape. Overall, this grant is structured to support organizations with proven domestic violence-related experience (or strong, established partnerships with those who do) to implement and demonstrate specialized service approaches that better protect and support abused parents and their children, especially children who have been exposed to domestic violence and may also be impacted by abuse or neglect.

• The Administration for Children and Families - OFVPS in the income security and social services sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Family Violence Prevention and Services Discretionary Grants: Specialized Services to Abused Parents and their Children (Demonstration Projects)" and is now available to receive applicants.
• Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 93.592.
• This funding opportunity was created on 2024-04-12.
• Applicants must submit their applications by 2024-06-12. (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 $450,000.00 in funding.
• The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 50 candidate(s).
• Eligible applicants include: Public and State controlled institutions of higher education, Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized), 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.

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