Training and Services to End Violence and Abuse Against Individuals with Disabilities and Deaf People

For programmatic or technical questions:
202.307.6026
ovw.disabilities@usdoj.gov

Grants.gov contact center:
800.518.4726
support@grants.gov
Self-service knowledge base

System for Award Management (SAM):
866.606.8220
Federal service desk

JustGrants help desk:
866.655.4482
JustGrants.Support@usdoj.gov

This opportunity offers funding to increase organizational capacity to support multidisciplinary collaborative teams that offer services and support to individuals with disabilities and deaf individuals who have been victims of sexual assault, domestic violence, dating violence, and stalking.

The program purpose areas include:

• Provide personnel, training, technical assistance, advocacy, intervention, prevention, and risk reduction
• Conduct outreach activities to ensure that individuals with disabilities who are victims of domestic violence, dating violence, stalking, or sexual assault receive appropriate assistance
• Conduct cross-training for victim service organizations, governmental agencies, courts, law enforcement, and nonprofit, nongovernmental organizations
• Provide technical assistance to assist with modifications to existing policies, protocols, and procedures to ensure equal access to services
• Provide training and technical assistance on the requirements of shelters and victim service providers under federal anti-discrimination laws
• Modify facilities, purchase equipment, and provide personnel so that shelters and victim service organizations can accommodate the needs of individuals with disabilities
• Provide advocacy and intervention services for individuals with disabilities who are victims of domestic violence, dating violence, stalking, or sexual assault
• Develop model programs providing advocacy and intervention services within organizations serving individuals with disabilities who are victims of domestic violence, dating violence, stalking, or sexual assault

Priorities include:

• Combatting human trafficking and transnational crime, particularly crimes linked to illegal immigration, transnational criminal organizations, and cartel operations, including projects that strengthen law enforcement investigation and prosecution while supporting safety and justice for trafficking victims who have also suffered domestic/dating violence, sexual assault, and/or stalking
• Projects dedicated to direct victim services and/or criminal justice responses — including investigation, arrest, prosecution, and enforcement of protective orders — particularly in small towns and rural, remote, and tribal communities

Eligible applicants:

• States and territories
• Units of local government
• Tribal governments and tribal organizations
• Nonprofit, nongovernmental organizations serving individuals with disabilities and deaf people

All applications must include a partnership with both a victim service provider or tribal organization serving victims of domestic/dating violence, sexual assault, or stalking and a nonprofit, nongovernmental organization serving individuals with disabilities and/or deaf people.

Award ceiling: $600,000
Project period: 36 months
Estimated number of awards: 18
Estimated total program funding: $10,500,000

Links to the full announcement, application instructions, and the online application process are available through grants.gov.

Applications are submitted through a two-step process with the SF-424 and SF-LLL due in Grants.gov on September 25, 2026, and the full application including attachments in the Justice Grants System (JustGrants) due on September 29, 2026.