(CLOSED) USDOJ - OVC-2020-18113 - Expanding SANE Services to Victims of Sexual Assault on Campus FY 2020

Sponsor Name: 
U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), Office of Justice Programs (OJP), Office for Victims of Crime (OVC)
Amount: 
$8,000,000
Description of the Award: 

Overview

OVC is seeking applications to establish or expand Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner (SANE) programs that will offer medical forensic care, advocacy, and other victim services to sexual assault survivors on college campuses. This program furthers the Department’s mission by increasing the quality and quantity of services available to victims of sexual assault.

Program-Specific Information

This program is intended to establish or expand SANE programs that will offer medical forensic care, advocacy, and other victim services to sexual assault survivors on college campuses.

Goals, Objectives, and Deliverables

The primary goals of this program are to—

  • establish or expand SANE programs that will improve the delivery of sexual assault medical forensic care, advocacy, and other victim services to sexual assault survivors on campuses using coordinated community response strategies; and
  • build the campuses’ capacity to train and retain SANEs.

The objective is to develop, expand, or strengthen SANE services on the campuses of the institutions involved for victims of sexual assault to improve delivery of post-assault medical and advocacy services on campus. To the extent possible, campuses should collaborate with victim service providers in the community in which the institution is located. If appropriate victim services programs are not available in the community or are not accessible to students, the institution should, to the extent possible, provide a victim services program on campus or create a victim services program in collaboration with a community-based organization.

Allowable activities may include—

  • establish or expand campus SANE/Sexual Assault Response Teams (SARTs) to align advocacy, medical, legal, and educational services for survivors and ensure trauma-informed practices across service sectors. This may include hiring a SANE/SART Coordinator to identify SANEs and other campus personnel offering victim services. Using the SANE/SART model will allow institutions to implement national best practices in sexual assault response.
  • develop, strengthen, and implement SANE/SART policies, protocols, and services that effectively improve the response to sexual assault on campus.
  • develop collaborative relationships between community-based organizations and campus-based victim service providers that improve the quality of assistance provided to survivors.
  • build campuses’ capacity to train, mentor, and retain SANEs and advocates. Operational costs (including salaries and fringe benefits for program staff), training and mentoring for aspiring and current SANEs and advocates, and equipment costs can be supported under this program.
  • increase campus awareness and outreach efforts about the SANE program and provision of SANE services for survivors.
  • provide trauma-informed care to survivors to prevent and minimize re-traumatization.
  • The main deliverable is the delivery of sexual assault medical forensic care, advocacy, and other victim services to sexual assault survivors on campus. Other potential deliverables are below:
  • Improved quality of sexual assault medical forensic exams and sexual assault victim services provided to survivors.
  • Survivor empowerment while holding more perpetrators accountable.
  • Increased perpetrator accountability while empowering survivors.

The Goals, Objectives, and Deliverables are directly related to the performance measures that demonstrate the results of the work completed, as discussed under What an Application Should Include.

OJP Priority Areas

In FY 2020, and in addition to executing any statutory prioritization that may be applicable, OJP will give priority consideration to applications as follows:

• Applications that address specific challenges that rural communities face.

• Applications that demonstrate that the individuals who are intended to benefit from the requested grant reside in high-poverty areas or persistent-poverty counties.

• Applications that offer enhancements to public safety in economically distressed communities (Qualified Opportunity Zones).

 

Cost Sharing or Matching Requirement
This solicitation does not require a match.

Pre-Application Webinar

OVC will conduct one pre-application webinar on Tuesday, March 24, 2020, from 1:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m., eastern time. Participation in the webinar is optional. OVC staff will review the solicitation requirements and conduct a question and answer session with interested potential applicants. You may register for the webinar at https://www.ovc.gov/grants/webinars.html.

Limit (Number of applicants permitted per institution): 
1
Sponsor Final Deadline: 
May 07, 2020
OSVPR Application or NOI Instructions: 

Interested applicants should send the following documents in sequence in one PDF file (File name: Last name_OVC-2020-18113_2020 no later than 4:00 p.m. on the internal submission deadline:

Cover Page:

  • Principal Investigator’s (PI's) names and departmental affiliation
  • Co-PI's names and departmental affiliation(s)
  • The mandatory external victim service provider partner collaborating on this project.
  • The mandatory external criminal justice agency or entity partner collaborating on this project.
  • Proposal Title

Project description (no more than two pages):

  • The project description must provide a short summary of the proposed project, including names of applicant and partners, primary activities, products and deliverables, the service area, and who will benefit. Applicants must not summarize past accomplishments in this section.

2-page current Bio-sketch for all PIs and Co-PIs.

Formatting Guidelines and Page Limit:

  • Font/size: Times New Roman (12 pt.)
  • Document margins: 1.0” (top, bottom, left and right)
  • Standard paper size (8 ½” x 11)

Questions concerning the limited submissions process may be submitted to limitedsubs@psu.edu.

To be considered as a Penn State institutional nominee, please submit a notice of intent by the date provided directly below.
This limited submission is in downselect: 
Penn State may only submit a specific number of proposals to this funding opportunity. The number of NOIs received require that an internal competition take place, thus, a downselect process has commenced. No Penn State researchers may apply to this opportunity outside of this downselect process. To apply for this limited submission, please use this link:
OSVPR Downselect Deadline: 
Wednesday, April 1, 2020 - 4:00pm
Notes: 
Sheridan Miyamoto (Nursing)