Deadline: November 8, 2017
Amount: $2.3 million total available. Award amounts and project periods will vary according to applicant type, as follows:
  • New applicants: awards of up to $400,000 for a project period of 36 months
  • Continuation applicants: awards of up to $300,000 for a project period of 24 months
Eligibility:
  • States
  • Units of local government
  • Tribal governments or tribal organizations, including those representing a consortium of tribal governments
  • Population-specific organizations with demonstrated experience in assisting individuals over 50 years of age
  • Victim service providers with demonstrated experience in addressing domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking
  • State, tribal, or territorial domestic violence or sexual assault coalitions
The purpose of this program is to address elder abuse in communities through a comprehensive approach that provides training to criminal justice professionals, provides cross-training opportunities to professionals working with older victims, establishes or supports a coordinated community response to elder abuse, and provides or enhances service for victims who are 50 years of age or older. Funding is intended to supplement the funding agency’s Abuse in Later Life Program, known in eCivis Grants Network as US6270, and will be available to both new and continuation applicants of that program.
Funding issued through this program must be used for the following purposes:
  • Providing training programs to assist law enforcement agencies, prosecutors, agencies of states or units of local government, population-specific organizations, victim service providers, victim advocates, and relevant officers in federal, tribal, state, territorial, and local courts in recognizing and addressing instances of elder abuse
  • Providing or enhancing services for victims of abuse in later life
  • Establishing or supporting multidisciplinary collaborative community responses to victims of abuse in later life
  • Conducting cross-training for law enforcement agencies, prosecutors, agencies of states or units of local government, attorneys, health care providers, population-specific organizations, faith-based advocates, victim service providers, and courts to better serve victims of abuse in later life
Applicants may request that the funding agency waive one or more of the above mandatory purpose area activities; however, in doing so, such applicants must clearly demonstrate that the purpose areas were sufficiently addressed during their initial award through the funding agency’s Abuse in Later Life Program, or that using program funding for the specified activities would duplicate existing services available in the community.
Funding issued through this program may also be used for the following purposes:
  • Providing training programs to assist attorneys, health care providers, faith-based leaders, or other community-based organizations in recognizing and addressing instances of abuse in later life
  • Conducting outreach activities and awareness campaigns to ensure that victims of abuse in later life receive appropriate assistance
New applicants that receive funding through this program will be required to engage in the following activities:
  • Award recipient orientation
  • Law enforcement “training of trainers” (TOT) training
  • Law enforcement training
  • Advanced law enforcement training
  • Prosecutors’ institute
  • Judicial institute
  • Direct services TOT training
  • Direct services cross-training
  • Kickoff/coordinated community response events
  • Collaborative community responses (CCR)
  • Providing or enhancing services for older victims
  • Evaluation
Continuation applicants that receive funding through this program will be required to engage in the following activities:
  • Award recipient orientation
  • CCR
  • Providing or enhancing services for older victims
  • Critical assessment
  • Evaluation
Continuation applicants that receive funding through this program may also engage in the training activities detailed on pages 12-14 of the NOFA file.
Applicants that propose activities that meaningfully increase access to the funding agency’s programming for underserved populations will be given special consideration during the application evaluation process.
Eligible costs may include reasonable steps to provide access to language assistance services for individuals with limited English proficiency.
Optional pre-application information sessions are scheduled for this program. Refer to the Application section for details.