Applications are due by September 17, 2010 no later than 11:00 p.m., Mountain Standard Time (MST). The deadline is anticipated to be similar annually.
The STOP (Services, Training, Officers, Prosecutors) Violence Against Women Formula Grant Program promotes a coordinated, multidisciplinary approach to improving the criminal justice system's response to violent crimes against women. The STOP Program encourages the development and strengthening of effective law enforcement and prosecution strategies to address violent crimes against women and the development and strengthening of victim services in cases involving violent crimes against women. Grants and subgrants supported through this program must meet one or more of the following statutory program purpose areas: (1) Training law enforcement officers, judges, other court personnel, and prosecutors to more effectively identify and respond to violent crimes against women; (2) Developing, training, or expanding units of law enforcement officers, judges, other court personnel, and prosecutors specifically targeting violent crimes against women; (3) Developing and implementing more effective police, court, and prosecution policies, protocols, orders, and services specifically devoted to preventing, identifying, and responding to violent crimes against women, including the crimes of sexual assault and domestic violence; (4) Developing, installing, or expanding data collection and communication systems, including computerized systems, linking police, prosecutors, and courts or for the purpose of identifying and tracking arrests, protection orders, violations of protection orders, prosecutions, and convictions for violent crimes against women, including the crimes of sexual assault and domestic violence; (5) Developing, enlarging, or strengthening victim services programs; (6) Developing, enlarging, or strengthening programs addressing stalking; (7) Developing, enlarging, or strengthening programs addressing the needs and circumstances of Indian tribes in dealing with violent crimes against women; (8) Supporting formal and informal statewide, multidisciplinary efforts to coordinate the response of state law enforcement agencies, prosecutors, courts, victim services agencies, and other state agencies and departments, to violent crimes against women; (9) Training of sexual assault forensic medical personnel examiners in the collection and preservation of evidence, analysis, prevention, and providing expert testimony and treatment of trauma related to sexual assault; (10) Developing, enlarging, or strengthening programs to assist law enforcement, prosecutors, courts, and others to address the needs and circumstances of older and disabled women who are victims of domestic violence or sexual assault; (11) Providing assistance to victims of domestic violence and sexual assault in immigration matters; (12) Maintaining core victim services and criminal justice initiatives, while supporting complementary new initiatives and emergency services for victims and their families; (13) Supporting the placement of special victim assistants in local law enforcement agencies to serve as liaisons between victims of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking and personnel in local law enforcement agencies in order to improve the enforcement of protection orders; and (14) To provide funding to law enforcement agencies, nonprofit nongovernmental victim services providers, and State, tribal, territorial, and local governments, to promote: (a) development and implementation of training for local victim domestic violence service providers and to fund victim services personnel to provide supportive services and advocacy for victims of domestic violence committed by law enforcement personnel; (b) implementation of protocols within law enforcement agencies to ensure consistent and effective responses to the commission of domestic violence by personnel within such agencies; and (c) development of such protocols in collaboration with State, tribal, territorial and local victim services providers and domestic violence coalitions. The emphasis of the STOP Program continues to be on the implementation of comprehensive strategies addressing violence against women that are sensitive to the needs and safety of victims and hold offenders accountable for their crimes. In shaping their strategies for Federal Fiscal Year 2010, States and Territories are encouraged to develop and support projects that: (1) Support core services for victims of sexual and domestic violence, particularly support for rape crisis centers and shelters; (2) Expand the options available to battered women by increasing and expanding the utilization of civil legal services, particularly for battered women who are in danger of losing custody to perpetrators of sexual and domestic violence; (3) Provide comprehensive culturally specific services beyond bilingual advocacy; (4) Provide basic and advanced training to Tribal law enforcement and Tribal courts; (5) Provide basic and advanced training to target elder abuse violence against women programs; and (6) Provide basic and advanced training and services that address the intersection of domestic violence and prisoner re-entry, providing advocacy services to battered women convicted of crimes, victims of prison rape, and women whose batterers are returning from prison. Applicants may choose to focus their projects on either the federally recognized priorities or the
state level priorities found at http://www.isp.idaho.gov/pgr/Grant_Programs/STOP%202010/documents/2010STOPRFP_000.pdf; however, they must continue to emphasize the importance of implementing comprehensive strategies to end violence against women that are sensitive to the needs and safety of victims and that hold offenders accountable for their crimes. Idaho STOP subgrantees will continue to make it a priority to forge lasting partnerships between criminal justice agencies
and victim advocacy and service groups.
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Name: Mary Burke
Department: ISP Planning, Grants, and Research
Street: Idaho State Police Headquarters
700 S. Stratford Dr.
City: Meridian
Zip: 83642
Email: mary.burke@isp.idaho.gov
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