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| Technical Assistance on Supervised Visitation and Safe ExchangeWelcome Supervised Visitation grantees! Since 2002, Praxis has been providing training, technical assistance and networking opportunities to communities funded by the Office on Violence Against Women, Safe Havens: Supervised Visitation and Safe Exchange Grant Program.
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About Supervised Visitation Grantees
Grantees of the Supervised Visitation Program are located in communities in all regions of the country. Funded for project development or implementation, organizations are found in a range of settings - rural,urban, suburban, Tribal, statewide, etc. Grantees are funded to provide supervised visitation and safe exchange services that centralize safety and provide equal regard for adult and child victims of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, child abuse and/or stalking.
Training, Technical Assistance and Networking
Praxis provides grantees with access to training, technical assistance and networking opportunities focused on how to design and implement quality visitation center programming that addresses battering, dating violence, child abuse, sexual assault, or stalking. We encourage grantees to invite any community partner, such as battered women’s advocates, law enforcement officers, prosecutors, judges, child protection workers, custody evaluators, guardians ad l item, etc. to participate in our technical assistance events. Unless otherwise note dall events are free and all allowable costs to attend may be covered with your OVW “set-aside” training and technical assistance funds.
The Office on Violence Against Women (OVW)
Congress passed the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) with bipartisan support in1994. In 1995, the Office on Violence Against Women (OVW) was create dunder the Office of Justice Programs, United States Department of Justice, to implement the 1994 VAWA and to lead the national effort to stop domestic violence, sexual assault, and stalking. For the first eight years of OVW grant-making, funding was primarily provided for criminal justice reform programs. In 2000, Congress passed VAWA 2000reauthorizing critical programs and establishing the first federally-funded initiative to examine the policies and practice issues involved in creating safe visitation with and exchange of children in cases of domestic violence, child abuse, sexual assault, and stalking. OVW Website Links
Home page
The Violence Against Women Act of 2000
OVW Grants
Safe Havens: Supervised Visitation and Safe Exchange Grant Program Guiding Principles
Other Supervised Visitation Program TA Providers
Courts, Legal and Collaboration TA:
National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges
Cultural Accessibility of Visitation Centers:
Institute on Domestic Violence in the African American Community
Fathering After Violence:
Family Violence Prevention Fund
Safe Transitions Out of Visitation Services:
Duluth Family Visitation Center
Development Grantee Technical Assistance:
Alliance of Local Service Organizations
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