Office on Violence Against Womens Education and Technical Assistance Grants to End Violence Against

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Office on Violence Against Womens Education and
Technical Assistance Grants to End Violence
Against Women with Disabilities 2006 Grantees
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Where are the grantees?
WA
MT
OR
VT
ID
WI
NY
IL
WV
KS
MO
MS
TX
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Types of Agencies Involved
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Idaho

• Project Team
• State Independent Living Council
• Idaho Coalition Against Sexual and Domestic
  Violence
• Boise State University Gender Studies Program
• Extensive experience working together
• Some experience addressing VAWD
• Proposed Service Area State-wide
• Site visit location Boise

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Illinois

• Project Team
• Illinois Department of Human Services
• Illinois Coalition Against Sexual Assault
• Illinois Network of Centers for Independent
  Living
• Blue Tower Training Center
• Illinois Voices
• Illinois Family Violence Coordinating Council
• Team includes state agency
• Some experience working together
• Addressing VAWD is new
• Proposed Service Area State-wide
• Site visit location Chicago

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Kansas

• Project Team
• Kansas Coalition Against Sexual and Domestic
  Violence
• Kansas Association of Centers for Independent
  Living
• Kansas Department of Health and Environment
• Some experience working together
• 2002 OVW Disability Grant recipient
• Proposed Service Area State-wide
• Site visit location Topeka

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Mississippi

• Project Team
• Department of Public Safety/Division of Public
  Safety Planning
• University of Mississippi Medical Center School
  of Nursing
• Mississippi Coalition Against Sexual Assault
• Mississippi Coalition Against Domestic Violence
• Institute for Disability Studies at The
  University of Southern Mississippi
• Experience working together
• OVW Disability Grant recipient
• 2004 OVW Elder Abuse Grant recipient
• Proposed Service Area State-wide
• Site visit location Jackson

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Missouri

• Project Team
• Metropolitan Organization to Counter Sexual
  Assault
• Rose Brooks Center
• University of Missouri Kansas City Institute for
  Human Development
• Experience working together
• Some experience addressing VAWD
• Proposed Service Area Kansas City

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Montana

• Project Team
• Montana Coalition Against Domestic and Sexual
  Violence
• Montana Center on Disabilities
• Montana Mental Health Association
• Developmental Disabilities Program of the Montana
  Department of Public Health and Human Services
• Some experience working together
• 2004 OVW Disability Grant recipient
• Proposed Service Area State-wide
• Site visit location Billings

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New York

• Project Team
• Vera House, Inc.
• Arise Child and Family Services, Inc.
• Extensive experience working together
• Experience addressing VAWD
• 2002 OVW Elder Abuse Grant recipient
• Proposed Service Area Syracuse

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New York

• Project Team
• Taconic Resources for Independence, Inc.
• Family Services Incs Battered Womens Services
• Crime Victims Assistance Programs
• Some experience working together
• Addressing VAWD is new
• Proposed Service Area Poughkeepsie

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Oregon

• Project Team
• Lane County Department of Children Families
• Direction Service
• Womenspace
• Siuslaw Outreach Services
• Sexual Assault Support Services
• Lane Independent Living Alliance
• ShelterCare
• Mobility International USA
• Cottage Grove Community Sharing
• Lane Country Domestic Violence Council
• Extensive experience with collaboration through
  the OVW Greenbook Initiative
• Addressing VAWD is new
• Proposed Service Area Lane
• Site visit location Eugene

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Rhode Island

• Project Team
• Day One Center
• Rhode Island Coalition Against Domestic Violence
• PAL
• Extensive experience working together
• 2004 OVW Disability Grant recipient
• Proposed Service Area State-wide
• Site visit location Providence

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Texas

• Project team
• Advocacy, Inc.
• Deaf Abused Women Children Advocacy Services
• SafePlace
• Extensive experience working together
• 2002 2004 OVW Disability Grant recipient
• Proposed Service Area State-wide
• Site visit location Austin

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Vermont

• Project Team
• VT Network Against Domestic Sexual Violence
• Vermont Center for Independent Living
• Deaf Victims Advocacy Services
• Green Mountain Self Advocates
• Vermont Psychiatric Survivors
• VT Protection Advocacy
• Extensive experience working together
• 2004 OVW Disability Grant recipient (planning)
• Proposed Service Area State-wide
• Site visit location Montpelier

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Washington

• Project Team
• Washington State Coalition Against Domestic
  Violence
• Abused Deaf Womens Advocacy Services
• Washington Coalition of Sexual Assault Programs
• Washington Protection Advocacy System
• Extensive experience addressing VAWD
• Extensive experience addressing VADW
• 2002 2004 OVW Disability Grant recipient
• Proposed Service Area State-wide
• Site visit location Seattle

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Wisconsin

• Project Team
• Disability Rights Wisconsin
• Wisconsin Coalition Against Domestic Violence
• Wisconsin Coalition Against Sexual Assault
• Extensive experience working together
• 2002 2004 OVW Disability Grant recipient
• Proposed Service Area State-wide
• Site visit location Madison

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West Virginia

• Project Team
• Foundation for Rape and Information Services
• Center for Excellence in the Disabilities at the
  West Virginia University
• West Virginia Department of Health and Human
  Services
• Northern West Virginia Center for Independent
  Living
• Some experience working together
• Addressing VAWD is new
• Proposed Service Area State-wide
• Site visit location Morgantown

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Challenges in our work

• How do we
• provide TA to grantees who have different levels
  of experiences and expertise in the fields of
  VAWD/DW?
• provide TA to different types of communities
  rural and urban?
• share lessons learned from grantees and
  associates with other communities?