OVW program to hire and train clinicians providing sexual assault forensic exams and expand access to trauma-informed forensic exam services. Primarily targets SANE/SAFE program capacity.
Apply directly on grants.gov, no state intermediary. For hiring and training, the applicant is a state, tribe, or city or county government; police departments and prosecutors' offices can't apply on their own. The separate research round is open only to nonprofits and universities.
Official program pageState, local, and tribal governments and other OVW-eligible entities. Sexual assault nurse examiner programs, hospitals with SANE units, and forensic nursing programs are primary applicants.
1 award on record from the last three fiscal years.
Source: USAspending.gov.
General advice for this program, not taken from the notice. The notice’s own review criteria are what reviewers actually score, so check these against it.
Explicitly outline how grant funds will support SANE-A or SANE-P certification timelines for each hired examiner, including specific training hours, clinical supervision requirements, and target completion dates.
Include signed MOUs or letters of support from local law enforcement, prosecutors, and victim advocacy organizations to show a coordinated, multi-agency response infrastructure that sustains examiners beyond the grant period.
Do not submit proposals that simply state a need for more examiners without quantifying current exam wait times, geographic service gaps, or caseload data that substantiate the specific number of positions requested.
Reviewers will penalize applications that rely entirely on grant funding with no concrete plan for maintaining hired staff and training infrastructure after the award period ends.
A starting list, not the official one. Each notice ends with its own application checklist, and that is the list to work from once a round opens.
