Funding Level: $6,976,652
Overview: The goal of VAWA STOP (Services, Training, Officers, Prosecutors) is to support a community-based approach to combating domestic violence, sexual violence and stalking. It is a formula grant to the state and a formula grant (prescribed by the grant) from the state to providers. Florida allocates 25% to law enforcement, 25% to prosecutors, 40% to victim services and 5% to the courts. To further the purposes of the Recovery Act, OVW encourages states to target Recovery Act funding to hiring and retaining criminal justice and victim services personnel who respond to violent crimes against women, as well as supporting other strategies that create and preserve jobs and promote economic growth while improving responses to domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking.
For More Information: http://flarecovery.com/about/state-and-local-projects/other-aid/violence-against-women
Federal Contact: Office on Violence Against Women (OVW), U.S. Department of Justice
State Contact: Florida Office of Economic Recovery