The attached funding opportunity can be viewed online at
www.womenshealth.gov/fund/Prevention%20of%20Violence%20Against%20Women.p
df .

Up to two projects in Virginia's Region III will be funded up to $5,000.


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Rebecca K. Odor
of: 804-864-7740
email: Becky.Odor@...

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Please see attached funding opportunity through the Department of Health
and Human Services (HHS) Regional Offices on Women's Health (OWH).

If you would like to submit an application for the Prevention of
Violence Against Women and Girls Project, please complete the forms in
the attached Request for Application (RFA) and e-mail to John Snow, Inc.
(JSI) at owhapplication@... by February 23, 2009 at 5:00 p.m.
Mountain Time.

Please note, applications will be not be accepted by the Regional
Offices on Women's Health.

For help with this RFA, please e-mail: owhapplication@... or call
toll-free: 1-866-224-3815.

Thank you.

John Snow, Inc.


John Snow, Inc.
owhapplication@...
866-224-3815


Violence against women and girls is perpetrated in all types of personal
and family relationships and crosses economic, educational, cultural,
racial, age, and religious lines. The United States Justice Department's
Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) estimated that nearly one-third of
women murdered each year in the United States are killed by their
current or former intimate partners.1 BJS also reported that
approximately one million women are stalked each year2, and three
percent of college women are victims of an attempted or completed rape
in each academic year. 3
Funding is available for specific events or activities intended to
prevent, raise awareness of, or respond to the epidemic of violence
against women and girls in the United States. Violence against women and
girls encompasses intimate partner violence, domestic violence, sexual
assault, sexual abuse, stalking, emotional and verbal abuse; as well as
bullying, human-trafficking, and other forms of trauma or abuse.
This funding opportunity addresses the physical, mental, and emotional
impact of violence against women across the life cycle (e.g. girls,
adolescent girls, women of reproductive age, pregnant women, mature
women, and older women.) Applications for the Prevention of Violence
Against Women and Girls project may include education and prevention
activities such as: VAW awareness walks, VAW specific health fairs, VAW
prevention workshops for women and girls, VAW training sessions for
community providers, and local public health awareness projects on VAW.
Multiple federal websites are available that provide information, fact
sheets, materials, templates and programming ideas as well as links to
policies and legislation. You can access these many websites by visiting
http://www.womenshealth.gov/violence/
Examples of activities that will not be funded include: research, direct
clinical services, screening services and testing kits.