OVW Fiscal Year 2025 Training and Services to End Abuse in Later Life Program | O OVW 2025 172275

Opportunity Information: Apply for O OVW 2025 172275

The OVW Fiscal Year 2025 Training and Services to End Abuse in Later Life Program is a discretionary federal grant opportunity from the U.S. Department of Justice, Office on Violence Against Women (OVW), offered as a cooperative agreement under Assistance Listing (CFDA) 16.528. The program is built to strengthen how communities prevent and respond to abuse affecting people age 50 and older, taking a broad view of what "abuse in later life" can look like. It is intended to support coordinated, practical approaches that improve safety, access to services, and system responses for older victims, especially in situations where older adults face unique barriers like isolation, dependency on a caregiver, health or mobility limitations, or financial exploitation.

The scope of abuse covered by the program is intentionally comprehensive. It includes domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking, but it also explicitly includes neglect, abandonment, economic abuse, and other forms of willful harm committed against victims who are 50 years of age or older. In other words, the program is not limited to one type of crime or relationship dynamic; it recognizes that older victims may experience harm from intimate partners, family members, caregivers, or others in positions of trust, and that the impacts often span physical safety, housing stability, health, and financial security.

Eligible applicants include a wide range of government and community-based entities that are positioned to deliver services or improve systems for older survivors. This includes state governments, units of local government (such as counties, cities, or townships), federally recognized tribal governments, tribal organizations, population-specific organizations, victim service providers, and state, tribal, or territorial domestic violence or sexual assault coalitions. The eligibility list emphasizes that both governmental bodies and specialized nonprofit organizations can apply, including 501(c)(3) nonprofits (other than institutions of higher education), along with other qualifying entities identified by OVW.

From a funding and competition standpoint, OVW expects to make about 25 awards under this opportunity. The maximum award amount (award ceiling) is $750,000 per award. The opportunity was created on January 2, 2025, and the original application deadline is March 4, 2025. The funding opportunity number is OVW 2025 172275, and the funding activity category is Law, Justice and Legal Services, which reflects the program's focus on improving both direct victim services and the larger justice and community response systems that interact with older victims.

Overall, this grant is designed for applicants that can show they will use federal support to build or enhance a coordinated response to abuse in later life. In practice, that typically means efforts that connect victim services, justice partners, and community-based supports so older victims can more easily access safety planning, advocacy, and resources, while systems become better equipped to identify abuse, reduce harm, and respond in ways that account for the realities of later-life victimization.

• 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 Training and Services to End Abuse in Later Life Program" and is now available to receive applicants.
• Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 16.528.
• This funding opportunity was created on 2025-01-02.
• Applicants must submit their applications by 2025-03-04. (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 $750,000.00 in funding.
• The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 25 candidate(s).
• Eligible applicants include: State governments, County governments, City or township governments, 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, Others.

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