Grant Resources for Sexual Assault Victims.

Table of Contents

Grant Resources for Sexual Assault Victims. 3

Sexual Assault. 3

The office on Violence Against Women (OVW) 4

Financial Grant Budget Trend. 4

The burden of violence and the Scope 5

Victims and families services 6

Prosecution 7

Grants Funding Opportunities On Sexual Assault 8

i. STOP – Grants to combat Violence Against Women 8

ii. Tribal Sexual Assault Services Program (SASP) 9

iii. Grant on Rural Sexual Assault, Domestic Violence, Dating Violence and Stalking Assistance Program 11

iv. Victims Grant Program Legal Assistance 12

v. Transitional Housing Assistance Grants 13

vi. The Rape Prevention and Education Grant Program 14

Grant Solicitation 15

OVW Fiscal Year 2021: Justice for Families Program 15

Deadline 16

Budget and Project Timeline 16

Grant Requirements 16

Eligibility 16

THE UNMET NEEDS 17

1. Sexual Assault Services Program- Grants to Cultural Specific Programs 17

Domestic Violence, Rural Sexual Assault, Stalking Assistance and Dating Violence Program 19

Conclusion 21

Grant Resources for Sexual Assault Victims.

Sexual Assault.

The rape Violent Against Women Act (VAWA), which was revised by the VAWA 2013, alludes to rape as a superfluous sexual act recommended by the government, state law, ancestral where the casualty can't assent act. Rape may incorporate assault or endeavored sexual viciousness that denies the survivor of their privileges to freedom of sex acts. As indicated by the United States populace, past exploration shows that one woman in three women and six men goes through sexual savagery at any rate.

In a large portion of the past recent years, there have been more instances of the epidemic of rapes across the world. For example, in the U.S., assault cases happen every 6.2 minutes, which brings about 1 out of 5 ladies and 1 out of every 71 men being explicitly attacked or being assaulted in the course of their life. For a long time, it is a problem that has affected the lives of the victims for their lifetime. Sexual Assault is a phenomenon that covers a wide range of unwanted sexual behaviors that the offenders always use when asserting power and control over other people. Due to the violence and damages that such assaults leave with the victims, the government through the federal states, tribal organizations, and other non-governmental organizations have come up with a means to offer direct interventions and additional related assistance for those who suffered Sexual Assault in the form of grants ( Muehlenhard, 2017). The research paper discusses the current grant programs that are available for sexual victims. It centers around awards offered through the United States Department of Justice in the Office on Violence against Women.

The study by the national crime victimization survey (NCVS) discovered that during the last ten years, completed rape cases comprise 28 percent of the sexual victimization cases recorded, attempted rape was 21 percent, while 27 percent were due to sexual Assault. Similarly, threats to rape or sexual Assault contributed 17 percent, as 6 percent were due to unwanted sexual contact without force ( Sigurvinsdottir, 2016). The research also noted that most of the perpetrators of the crimes were known assailants to the victims. NCVS data also shows that their close partners of the total victimization cases committed 34 percent of the female victims of rape or sexual violence. In comparison, friends and acquaintances contributed 38 percent, as strangers contributed 22 percent. According to NISVS studies, 47.1 percent of the women who suffered sexual Assault between the years 2010 and 2012 either through completed or attempted rape was through their former partners, while 44.9 percent were through their acquaintances ( Sigurvinsdottir, 2016).

The office on Violence Against Women (OVW)

This depicts the office responsible for grants under the Violence Acts against Women Act (VAWA). OVW assists technically, and necessary training skills to the grantees for the funds they are issued can successfully combat the community's crimes. By the year 2018, OVW had already acquired the authority to offer 15 decretory and four programs of formula that provided grants that supported agencies of criminal justice agencies, organizations of victim services, and finally, non-governmental bodies championing the reduction of domestic and sexual violence.

Financial Grant Budget Trend.

Fiscal Year	Discretionary Awards	Total Grant amount Award
F.Y. 2019
FY 2018	535	$269 Million
FY 2017	534	$257 Million
FY 2016	550	$257 Million
FY 2015	472	$225 Million

Data Source

The burden of violence and the Scope 

Sexual and Domestic violence victims undergo several physicals, emotional, and even financial barriers as they look for ways to be a people who are free from violence. The research demonstrated that offering services reduces trauma and recognizes that trauma patients can improve their outcomes. The programs from the VAWA offer essential services like the intervention of crisis and advocacy while also supporting large organizations that further provide the necessary prevention, education, and culturally specific services. In conjunction with the advocates, the community has diligently worked to create and develop responsive program services that have successfully addressed the victims' compelling need. The VAWA deals with the umbrella of the fight against Domestic and Sexual Assaults. However, these programs have given priority to some crucial regions that significantly affect the victims regarding the assaults ( Ellis, 2020). These areas have received continuous funding and support to meet the goals through grants. They include; 

Provision of core services such as hotline call services, referrals to community agencies, and transport.

Safety planning to the victims fleeing their homes for rescue

Emergency assistance like clothing, housing, food, and medical care

Advocacy of Victim, support, and counseling. 

Advocacy of Criminal justice 

Criminal Justice Response

From their findings, efforts from the VAWA have led to a tremendous transformation in the peoples' response to criminal justice systems concerning domestic Violence and Sexual Violence. The bodies funded by VAWA use evidence-based lethality assessment to reduce any domestic violence and improve the medical forensic examination for sexual assault survivors. They have also aided successful prosecution and investigation policies and other offender focus practices while considering the trauma caused to the victims. In response to Reduce Sexual Assault's need, criminal justice response is one sub-area that the grants have increased their focus on since many victims find it difficult to report and even follow up on their legal rights ( Buzawa, 2017) .

A two-year report on the grant coverage for criminal justice reported curbing violence against women cases (Potter, 2018). For instance; 

Law enforcement recorded forty-eight thousand four hundred and thirteen successful arrests, including protection order violations of 5,445.

The prosecutors were able to dispose of 90,734 court cases where 49 percent of the cases led to convictions

Through their grounded programs, the courts occupied with legal checking of the semiannual normal of 960 guilty parties for consenting to the court orders.

Victims and families services 

VAWA grant holds have held an essential capacity in organizations provided for overcomers of Sexual Assault and their families while adjusting to the quick and long haul impact of sexual viciousness. These administrations improve the casualties to reclaim their lost nobility as they recuperate and build up their free life in another climate (Messing, 2017). Such services are crucial to the victims as they help connect these victims to supportive resources that allow them to recover to choose to pursue justice. For instance;

Crisis intervention helps them with their immediate needs after victimization.

Legal advocacy and representation support them in navigating the legal system so that they can be able to obtain favorable outcomes for their justice and protection.

VAWA, through their awards, upheld administrations of 1 million to the casualties in a two-year time frame. This is an average of 112,302 after every six months, where 103,881 were primary sexual Assaults. In summary, 1,260,316 were bed nights, 575,162 hot calls, advocacy victims of 268,763, criminal justice advocacy 70,683 and crisis intervention 156,541 (Messing, 2017).

Prosecution 

Since the Violence Against Women Act was enacted, there have been significant innovations and changes in domestic violence's persecution processes. There has also been extensive investigation procedures and policy development and the expansion and establishment of specialized units. However, there is a need for additional systematic improvements to the better response of prosecution to domestic violence, which is not consistent across jurisdictions. A previous report recorded instances of casualties being hesitant to take an interest in a preliminary, which is the most convincing explanation behind the decrease in arraignment cases involving rape. Such reluctance is attributed to the information that prosecution would make them lose their financial security if the abuser is prosecuted, especially if the culprit is intimate (Meddie, 2019). Similarly, victim intimidation and tampering with their witnesses are equally why they are relaxed to participate and corporate with the prosecution.

However, from a two-year survey on the impact of early interventions, victim outreach after the defenders are arraigned in court increases the victim participation in prosecution. Therefore, it is an opportunity that VAWA utilizes in promoting the improvement and development of efficient prosecution strategies. They fund grantees who intern, train and support specialized prosecution units to work with the victims to encourage and keep them in seeking justice. For the years that it has been in implementations, 62 ICJR, Rural, and Tribunal governments could find prosecution activities through the victims. They supported an average of 37 full-time prosecutors, and VAWA was able to fund grantees trained prosecutors of about 15,936 prosecutors (Meddie, 2019). The positive feedback shows that prosecution is a funding opportunity for grants and grantees to seek funds.

Grants Funding Opportunities On Sexual Assault

The workplace on viciousness against women is a program with 19 projects that have the command of the Violence against Women Act (VAWA) of 1994 and its resulting enactment. Out of the 19 projects, four are alluded to as recipes, which implies they are intended to authorize enactment that determines how assets should be appropriated. The other programs are discretionary, meaning they hold the responsibility to develop program parameters, eligibility and qualification, and the guiding legislation. The campaign aid in funding programs that help end domestic violence and sexual Assault through organizations representing millions of victims, professionals, and advocates. The funding champions in meeting the violence against women act. The grant opportunities related to sexual assault victim includes;

STOP – Grants to combat Violence Against Women

The rise in Sexual Assault results in gross violence against women, making them vulnerable people in society. Society, despite the willingness and need to do away with the act, may not have the capability to handle the cases. Along these lines, it permits the STOP awards to control the network and reinforces them to a level that they can sanction successful law requirements and secure indictment techniques to battle savagery against women. STOP grants are awarded to states and territories where each condition is required to at least allocate 25 percent of the funding to law enforcement, 25 percent to law prosecutors, 30 percent or victim services where 10 percent of this must be distributed to culturally specific community-based organizations. 5 percent of the grant should go to state and the local courts as discretionary distribution receives 15 percent allocation ("OVW grants and programs," 2019). 

STOP helps coordinate the community approach to establish a useful protocol and select domestic violence units in the law enforcement departments. Once funded by the grant provider, it remains the sole responsibility of the service providers to create and company with programs that help sexual assault victims and their respective families safe. Feedback data shows that STOP has undergone successful implementation. All the victims around the nation whose lives have been touched by the idea and the criminal justice systems have experienced the positive impact of the Violent Against Women Act (VAWA).

Research conducted in 2018 shows that STOP was already making impacted the lives of the thousand victims in finding safety while helping thousands of perpetrators accountable for their actions, which resulted from funding from the year 2017. With the determination to provide steady funding to the states supporting community response to Violence, VAWA has always helped the request and proposals to support the unmet areas of sex assaults.

Tribal Sexual Assault Services Program (SASP)

Sexually assaulted women need support to run their daily lives and the persecution of the perpetrators. From the research study, 1 in 6 women experiences an attempted or completed rape. However, only 42 percent of the victims successfully report the crimes to the relevant authorities and police. Rape is regarded as the cost of all the crimes to the victims, with an estimated $127 billion a year. The crime dramatically impacts children and affects their education, where if not properly monitored, they may drop out of school or perform dismally. Even as they grow up, it may still influence their performance some earnings as they may not deliver successfully ("Sexual assault services program (SASP)," 2020). To some extent, the victims may end up being victimized at their job places through salary reduction. It interferes with the ability of women to work.

Therefore, victims of sex abuse must receive advocate assistance, helpful information, and services that may help them experience less trauma in their secondary life. The need for advocates is also useful during the presentation of legal and medical proceedings from rape as it makes them feel better in both the short term and long term, which is key to their progress. It also helps them feel better and less psychological stress while undergoing physical health struggles and preventing them from any other life-risking behaviors and self-blame.

When advocates are incorporated, at least 59 percent of cases are likely to be reported, unlike when the survivors are let without advocates. It is also unfortunate that rape reporting and crisis centers and other organizations that help victims' sexual Assault needs usually lack the necessary resources required to meet the victims' requirements. For instance, a survey at rape crisis centers in 2007 shows that 70 percent of the programs underwent a reduction in funding over the past years, which has led to a decrease in the provision of advocacy services ("Sexual assault services program (SASP)," 2020).

To bring the change to the lives of the victims, the SASP, a program established for federal funding stream that is entirely meant to provide direct services for the victims of sexual violence. The grant helps champion advocacy on behalf of the victims and facilitate their accompaniment via social support systems, medical and criminal justice. SASP funds are also used to provide training and other technical assistance in the various departments and serve the victims of sexual violence. To guarantee that the award reserves are adequately utilized to help casualties experiencing rape, the SASP reserves are dispersed to Through a grant formula, states, and territories aid efforts to provide essential services to the adults and other minor sexual assault victims and their families to undergo crime problems. 

State territories and tribal sexual assault organizations' participation are invaluable to the nationwide providers.

Culturally specific bodies can provide intervention and other related support to the sex assault victims within the communities of color.

Therefore, the grant's successful funding ensures the successful address to the critical needs of sexual assault nationwide.

Grant on Rural Sexual Assault, Domestic Violence, Dating Violence and Stalking Assistance Program

The country program awards are intended to empower the security of survivors of Sexual Assault from provincial zones, dating, and abusive behavior at home and following. Its main aim is to offer support to the unique projects that can prevent or reduce rural activities that support these crimes in rural areas. Therefore, its primary goal is to provide services to victims who live in these challenging environments. The grant is available to territories, states, Indian tribes who are the most affected, local governments, and other non-profit making organizations.

According to a study conducted by the VAWA in 2007, it was noted that victims of sexual Assault leaving the rural areas undergo severe violence and fear than their counterparts in urban centers. Other than increased sexual Assault in rural areas, the victims from this environment usually find it difficult to escape such abusive relationships and dangerous situations that make them vulnerable (McKool, 2020). Such obstacles are from: 

Existing large geographic areas and challenging topography. Some rural areas always have harsh weather conditions that make it hard for the victims to make it to the nearest emergency shelters, some of which are as far as 100 miles away.

Existing gaps in the 911 emergency systems are also underfunded with appropriate law enforcement, thereby interfering with victims' criminal justice response.

Lack of transport means and other child care legal services 

The grant, therefore, helps in enabling a comprehensive community response in the rural areas. It allows the communities to develop outreach services, create domestic violence and sexual assault task forces who are motivated, and have the support to help such victims access justice and other support. Through the grant, the responsible service providers coordinate between law enforcement, prosecutors, and victims while championing laws that can help reduce and eliminate domestic violence cases from the rural regions.

Hence, the grants are designed to offer support, counseling, and any other assistance to the victims. They also fund corporative efforts that exist between law enforcement, prosecutors, and victims. Finally, the grant coordinates with the communities in developing education and preventive strategies for Sexual Assault and Domestic Violence cases.

Victims Grant Program Legal Assistance

Victims of rape need access to civil legal remedies. Due to environmental nature, fear, and other financial constraints, victims may not be in a position to report and seek legal support from the relevant authorities. Yet, they need to overcome the damages that are caused by the assailants to their lives. Most of them cannot, though they need civil legal remedies, including civil protection, child support and custody, housing, and public benefits assistance. Even though it Is evident in need of help, 70 percent of the sexual assault victims still make it to the courts themselves. This is because fees needed to hire the scarcely available private legal representation are beyond their capabilities; most of the victims in most cases may opt to let go of reporting and seeking legal rights ( VAWA MEI , n.d.). Therefore, for domestic violence victims and sexual Assault to access these remedies, they need access to knowledgeable legal support to help them navigate and handle issues in the legal system.

Legal matters' role is to assist the sex assault victims with practical issues in child support, protective orders, and legal support. These provide the victims with both long-term and short-term alternatives to their alternatives. Civil services are crucial factors considered while discussing the decline of domestic Violence and Sexual Assault. According to the 2010 research study, any increases in victims' legal support decrease sexual assaults associated with intimate partner homicide. The funds from this grant help meet the legal needs of victims of sexual assaults ( VAWA MEI , n.d.). It also enables traditional representations for victims who suffer from domestic violence, sexual assault, and stalking. They also assist in training purposes to enlighten the victims on the legal rights and improve the existing civil legal services. The grant funds help initiate and support collaboration between the victims and the program of legal aid services. Furthermore, the grants help educates law students on how to serve victims of sexual assaults and to navigate through the criminal justice system. The demand for these services is always high, pushing for the grant's continuous funding through the Office of Violence Against Women.

Transitional Housing Assistance Grants

Sexual Assault Victims usually find it challenging to relocate themselves after fleeing their dangerous situation. Finding permanent housing has been a problem for many of them, especially those who run in the middle of the night with nothing except their clothing at their back. Finding long-term housing has become scares leading to an extended stay at the domestic emergency camps, which are always full, ending up turning them away with time. For instance, in 2010, emergency domestic violence hosted 5,275 adults and 8,501 children just in one day. More 2,087 cases were denied access and use of space since it was already full. An average stay time at the emergency homeless center is 60 days, while it takes the victims at least between 6 to 10 months to secure new homes ( VAWA MEI , n.d.). Due to the lack of these interim housing, victims are left in a dilemma to choose between homelessness and further violence.

The VAWA Transitional Housing assistance Grant helps solve the housing crisis by providing the essential continuum between emergency shelters and victims' independent living. The grants' beneficiaries' testimonies are evidence that they would have been forced back to their abusers without the support through transitional housing. As a grant, it majors on: 

It ensures that they offer transitional assistance related to costs such as rent, security deposits, and other utilities.

Payment of operational expenses for the management of transitional programs

Supporting services, such as childcare, counseling, and transportation.

The grant ensures that transitional housing is effectively implemented to meet the victims' ongoing needs of affordable and safe housing after they leave their emergency centers. 

The Rape Prevention and Education Grant Program

Rape and Sexual Assault are common community crimes that damage the productivity and lives of victims and society. Communities with such cases need support t address and control such crimes. For instance,

1 in 6 women and 1 in 33 men in the United States have either undergone completed or attempted rape. It is additionally clear from the past exploration that assault survivors are multiple times bound to participate in self-destruction endeavors than non-casualties and multiple times almost certain than individuals influenced by different wrongdoings. Annual Rape costs on its victims are estimated to be $127 billion, while Assault costs $93 billion per year. It has been the wish for the parents and students to acquire school-based prevention programs that can enlighten them on the best ways to avoid sexually violent behaviors and give them information on what measures to take in case of sexual assault to them or their friends ( VAWA MEI , n.d.). With the 2010 survey report by the National Alliance to end Sexual Violence, 66 percent of the rape crisis centers would reduce their preventing education and public awareness due to funding reduction.

Due to the reasons stated above and the fact that AVAW is dedicated to reducing rape cases, the grants on rape prevention and education program will avail crucial funding to states to help prevent rape and conduct education on the same. The program, as it is designed, prepares everybody to become their heroes as they can participate in the fight against rape and sexual assaults, which they can actively do through; supporting the existing and new multidisciplinary research collaborations, promoting heal and other non-violent community social norms, attitudes and beliefs; fostering cross-cultural approaches that aid in prevention funding of national sexual research centers ( VAWA MEI , n.d.). They also provide information, resources, and other data that are key to sexual violence policymaking.

Grant Solicitation

OVW Fiscal Year 2021: Justice for Families Program

This is a program that has been authorized by the 34 USC § 12464 for Supporting Families belonging to Justice System. The projects' essential target is to guarantee an improved lawbreaker and common equity framework's improved reaction to the families with abusive behavior at home casualties, dating, and rape. Their target s to ensure that they achieve an enhanced capacity of courts and communities to respond to challenges affecting sexual Assault and related crimes in the long run ( VAWA MEI , n.d.).

Deadline

The speculative meeting date is set to be accessible by December 11, 2020, on the OVW site https://www.justice.gov/ovw/assets candidates. The meeting will be subtitled in both English and Spanish. Any other person who might wish to get any language help is encouraged to contact the program on OVW.JFF@usdoj.gov

Budget and Project Timeline

The task is specified to cover thirty-six months or three years starting October 1, 2021, and end on September 30, 2024

Grant Requirements

The applicants that will receive the funding will be expected to engage in the activities as follows: 

Office of Violence sponsored Technical and training assistance.

OVW to do a system assessment and evaluation to necessitate the grantee involvement. The recipients are, therefore, required to create time to participate in the assessment and evaluation.

One must undergo a new grantee orientation not unless the OVW exempts them.

Eligibility 

According to 34 USC sec 12464(a), the following are the entities who have the eligibility to apply for the grant on justice for families of Sexual Assault.

States, meaning any states and districts of Columbia, Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Guam. 

Units of Local Government – the city, towns, or parish villages

Courts including Juvenile Courts

Indian Tribal governments

Non-profit organizations having 501(c)(3) status with the IRS

Victim Service Providers- Non-profit, non-governmental, and tribal organizations or rape centers.

THE UNMET NEEDS

VAWA, through their grantees, had a recommendation that they should make observations on areas that need attention during their duty while implementing their respective projects. Their reports were critical to the Office on Violent against Women as it helped them identify some of the sub-areas within their project scope that were affecting the victims. For every individual grant, some issues and areas needed attention. The coverage provided did not fully cover them, and they needed a redesign of the programs to ensure that they are fully covered, for instance; 

Sexual Assault Services Program- Grants to Cultural Specific Programs

This award was intended to set up, keep up, and extend practical administrations of rape by explicit associations of various societies. However, despite achieving its purpose, there were some remaining needs that in one-way acted as an obstacle to the full completing of the targeted goal. First, most of the grantees noted that most of the victims were reluctant in accessing the services offered and reporting of crimes, which was attributed to cultural taboos around sexual violence discussions, excessive pressure from families that demanded that victims must refrain from reporting, infidelity of the fear of deportation and law enforcement and financially dependent on the abusers which left the victims vulnerable (Short, 2019). The victims also showed knowledge of legal rights. 

In this way, grantees prescribed a need to underscore the network schooling and effort to know about their lawful rights and show them what rape is and the requirement for a solid relationship. Further, it will help diminish casualty accusing and negative generalizations that avoid detailing any rape or aggressive behavior at home. A similar requirement for instruction was said among the cops. The grantees suggested that specialists on call and other specialist co-ops be taken through socially injury, touchy, and educated network rehearses.

Legal advocacy & services Grant Program

Lawful promotion and lawful administration awards are intended to encourage the portrayal of rape casualties in the general set of laws to guarantee responsiveness from the comprehensive set of rules to their fundamental requirements to end these types of savagery. Although the projects made considerable advances in serving the low-pay casualties battling with rape cases, there is a requirement for additional lawyers, casualty supporters, and paralegals who can deal with the high number of deaths and offer them far-reaching administrations for their customers. The grantees explicitly referred to that there is a requirement for family law lawyers who can be capable and have the ability to speak to customers who are in care and have separate from cases, lawyers who can chip away at migration cases, and lawful administrations that are identified with the insurance results of aggressive behavior at home, for example, property and youngster uphold. There are also gaps in meeting the immigrant victims' challenging needs and those victims with limited English proficiency in legal advocacy. It calls for more interpreters who are qualified and bilingual attorneys and advocates. There is also a need for a corporation with law enforcement to pursue U visa applications and address U visa applications' backlog. Those victims with low-income status undergo significant financial burdens, which in the long run jeopardize their safety and ability to access housing, transportation, food, and child care. It also makes it challenging to secure a stable job with a living wage. Other than finances, casualties need consideration regarding give minimal effort emotional wellness administrations for casualties and families, particularly those with limited English capability ( VAWA MEI, n.d.).The grants should also consider the outreach and services' improvement to the chronically underserved communities such as the immigrants, refugees, and those living in the remote areas.

Domestic Violence, Rural Sexual Assault, Stalking Assistance and Dating Violence Program

This program's significant purpose was to address the unique challenges that the sexually assaulted face in receiving assistance towards their victimization. Such challenges have been highlighted as the geographical isolation, low economic structures, and lack of available services. However, the grantees raised issues that need attention from the granters as gaps that are yet to be filled yet impact the victims' lives. For example, tremendous distances, testing financial conditions, and actual seclusion are essential critical boundaries to casualties while getting away from brutality and the accomplishment of independence. Other than the states of being, the regions need appropriate law authorization and low accessibility of rational administrations. The purview gives additionally introduced barricades in accomplishing equity to those on the ancestral terrains and fringe networks.

Because of the administrations' uncommonness in the rustic, the grantees had trouble in aiding the casualties in addressing their issues. The absence of a reasonable long haul lodging and crisis covers transportation issues, psychological wellness care, substance misuse, schooling, and work. Additionally, there are holes, particularly administration to American Indians or the Alaska Natives, Immigrant and evacuee casualties, and those casualties with limited English capability. Further, there is a need to think about social and etymological obstructions, topographical and actual disconnection, and extradition dread. The specialist organizations, law authorization, and court frameworks were battling to serve the local zones' populaces.  

Sexual Assault of state and Domestic Violence Coalitions systems 

This is an area where states collaborate with the relevant federals, states, and other local entities to stop sexual assault and other domestic violence behaviors ( VAWA MEI , n.d.). However, it has been noted that there are gaps that are underfunded, and some are not recognized—first, the need to upgrade cooperation and coordination between the specialist co-ops in light of aggressive behavior at home. For example, the association between the standard specialist co-ops and DV/SA associations, criminal equity experts, casualty specialist organizations, states, ancestral, and other nearby law authorization and courts. There is additionally the need to give socially educated and phonetically to fit abusive behavior at home and rape administrations.

For instance, the Maine Coalition against Sexual Assault admits that they would wish to expand their current client base. They say there are still unique needs that are not yet addressed, for instance, the elderly, disabled people, and Native women of America. There are gaps between the homeless, rural populations, and street-involved survivors. The area needs resources and funding to handle it. Handling issues and services in the under deserved people call for a good idea and more effort than the other typical traditional clients. Serving the incarcerated survivors is an idea that needs consideration ( VAWA MEI , n.d.). However, it demands a high-level relationship building and developing organization protocols and more traveling commitment to specific locations in managing additional paperwork. The populations need service, and supporting the grantees enhances the expansion of sexual intervention, and awareness availability helps that has not happened due to funding.

Despite the grants addressing the broader sexual Assault, the gifts in some areas array the grants' needs attention. For instance, in Missouri, an alliance against homegrown and sexual savagery vows addresses the minor varieties of rape, particularly the assault pack accumulations, law authorization preparing, and a preparation standard for a rape examination. The specialist co-ops in the rustic zones report the absence of adequate staff numbers to meet the expanding support from sexual vital offices. Because of the diminished state and government subsidizing for offering assistance to overcomers of rape, there is a need to consider boosting the help to get to the promotion, guiding, and the critical support they need.

Conclusion

Since the World Health Organization declared that violence is public health is rather than justice, the united states, through its organs, have been able to allocate funds to address the phenomenon as much from the justice paradigm. Sexual Assault is one of the issues affecting most families. The country has established ways to help reduce its impact through grants to related matters such as justice, service support, homes, and other advisory skills that ensure that culprits are held accountable. The paper research has discussed the grant opportunities, their availability, and eligibility. The grants have been designed to cover different sub-area or section of sexual Assault. For instance, rape prevention and education to victims, Transitional Housing, legal assistance, tribal sex assault program, and STOP-Combating Violence against Women. Finally, the paper has analyzed the key areas that need attention from the VAWA so that the dream to drive away. Sexual Assault can be combated.

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