Services Provided to Victims of Domestic Violence, Sexual Assault, Dating Violence, and Stalking

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DIANE Publishing, 2007
 

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Page 15 - Chairman Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions United States Senate The Honorable John A. Boehner Chairman Committee on Education and the Workforce House of Representatives The Honorable Howard P. "Buck...
Page 13 - Agency Comments and Our Evaluation We provided a draft of this report to the Secretary of Defense for review and comment.
Page 16 - States for grants to local public agencies and nonprofit private organizations to prevent incidents of family violence and to provide immediate shelter and related assistance to victims of family violence.
Page 16 - Columbia, and territories to develop and strengthen their criminal justice system's response to violence against women and to support and enhance services for victims.
Page 1 - ICWA, the Department of Health and Human Services' (HHS) Administration for Children and Families (ACF) monitors state compliance with federal child welfare laws.
Page 18 - Program (which helps create safe places for visitation with and exchange of children in cases of domestic violence , child abuse, sexual assault, or stalking) requested $24,028,420 over the 2002 appropriation of $l5,000,000.
Page 18 - Approximately 5,600 grants are made to domestic violence shelters, rape crisis centers, child abuse programs, and victim service units in law enforcement agencies, prosecutors' offices, hospitals, and social service agencies.
Page 18 - Eligible applicants include States, units of local government, and Indian tribal governments that propose to enter into contracts with public and private nonprofit entities to provide supervised visitation and safe visitation exchanges. At least five percent of the funding for this program must be available for grants to Indian tribal governments.
Page 23 - ... the Grants to Encourage Arrest Policies and Enforcement of Protection Orders Program (Arrest Program) form collects information on law enforcement activities like calls for assistance and arrests made.
Page 21 - Thank you for the opportunity to review the Government Accountability Office (GAO) draft report entitled "GUN CONTROL AND TERRORISM: FBI Could Better Manage Firearm-Related Background Checks Involving Terrorist Watch List Records.

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