OVW Fiscal Year 2025 Grants to Prevent and Respond to Domestic Violence, Dating Violence, Sexual Assault, Stalking, and Sex Trafficking Against Children and Youth Program | O OVW 2025 172291

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The OVW Fiscal Year 2025 Grants to Prevent and Respond to Domestic Violence, Dating Violence, Sexual Assault, Stalking, and Sex Trafficking Against Children and Youth Program (often called the Children and Youth Program) is a discretionary federal grant opportunity from the U.S. Department of Justice, Office on Violence Against Women (OVW). It is designed to help communities build or strengthen coordinated, community-based approaches that prevent violence and improve the systems that respond when violence occurs. The focus is specifically on children, teens, and young adults ages 0 to 24 who are impacted by domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, stalking, and sex trafficking, including those who experience these harms directly as victims and those who are affected through family or household violence.

The program’s core purpose is comprehensive capacity-building: supporting prevention efforts, improving early identification and intervention, expanding trauma-informed services, and strengthening treatment and response strategies that are developmentally appropriate for young people. OVW emphasizes approaches that are rooted in the community and coordinated across relevant partners, recognizing that effective responses for children and youth typically require collaboration among victim service providers, schools, local government and public agencies, and other organizations that interact with young people and families. In practical terms, proposed projects commonly center on expanding access to advocacy and supportive services, enhancing coordinated community responses, improving policies and procedures that affect child and youth victims, and ensuring that services reflect the realities of different ages and stages, from early childhood through young adulthood.

Eligible applicants include a wide range of local and community entities positioned to work directly with children and youth or to coordinate local systems. The opportunity lists eligibility for city or township governments and other units of local government (or agencies within them), independent school districts, federally recognized Native American tribal governments, Native American tribal organizations (including those other than federally recognized tribal governments), and nonprofit organizations with or without 501(c)(3) status (excluding institutions of higher education). The description also highlights key applicant types that often anchor these projects, such as schools, victim service providers, tribal nonprofit organizations, and faith-based organizations. This broad eligibility is intended to encourage partnerships that connect education, victim services, and community supports with justice and child-serving systems.

Administratively, this is a grant funding instrument within the Law, Justice and Legal Services category and is associated with CFDA number 16.888. The funding opportunity number is O-OVW-2025-172291. Applications were originally due June 30, 2025. OVW anticipates making approximately 19 awards under this solicitation, with an award ceiling of $500,000 per award. The opportunity record was created on May 6, 2025, indicating the solicitation’s release timeframe and planning horizon for applicants preparing coordinated proposals.

Overall, this grant opportunity is aimed at helping communities move beyond isolated services toward stronger, youth-centered prevention and response ecosystems. The intent is to reduce harm, increase safety and stability, and improve access to age-appropriate, trauma-informed support for children and young people affected by violence and exploitation, while strengthening the community partnerships and local systems that make those services effective and sustainable.

• The Office on Violence Against Women in the law, justice and legal services sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "OVW Fiscal Year 2025 Grants to Prevent and Respond to Domestic Violence, Dating Violence, Sexual Assault, Stalking, and Sex Trafficking Against Children and Youth Program" and is now available to receive applicants.
• Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 16.888.
• This funding opportunity was created on 2025-05-06.
• Applicants must submit their applications by 2025-06-30. (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 $500,000.00 in funding.
• The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 19 candidate(s).
• Eligible applicants include: City or township governments, Independent school districts, Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized), Native American tribal organizations (other than Federally recognized tribal governments), 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, Others.

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