Project Connect 2.0
Futures Without Violence is selecting new sites for Phase 2 of Project Connect: A Coordinated Public Health Initiative to Prevent and Respond to Violence Against Women (Project Connect 2.0), supported by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Office on Women’s Health (OWH). Since 2010, Futures Without Violence and OWH have worked in partnership with ten State and Tribal pilot sites to develop policy and public heath responses to domestic and/or sexual violence in women’s health programs.
Futures Without Violence has developed comprehensive training curricula, health care provider resources, and patient education materials to be used in family planning, adolescent health, home visitation and other maternal and child health settings. To date we have trained over 2,000 providers, have distributed a quarter of a million safety cards in 30 pilot sites, and have several States that worked in partnership with domestic and/or sexual violence advocates to institutionalize policies to assess for reproductive coercion and intimate partner violence in public health programs. In addition, domestic and sexual violence advocates have received training on integrating basic health assessments into their programs, and several local programs have begun offering medical services on-site.
As a participant in Project Connect 2.0, you will be part of a coalition of leaders dedicated to this issue and will have the opportunity to share your experiences and strategies with other states, territories or tribes participating in the program.
Futures Without Violence will convene regular meetings between participating State/Territory leaders and national experts, I/T/U health setting leaders, to provide technical assistance and materials, and will work with you to implement new strategies to strengthen the public health response to domestic violence.
States/Territories
We are inviting proposals to select six new States and/or Territories to work with us on this exciting initiative. Futures Without Violence will work with the OWH and a selection committee to select six States or Territories and five Tribal health sites that demonstrate a strong history of collaboration between domestic and sexual violence, health care and public health systems, as well as a capacity and interest in the proposed program. The period of funding is January 1, 2013 through December 31, 2015. Selected grantees will receive $375,000 for the funding period. In each participating State/Territory, Futures Without Violence will work closely with new or existing leadership teams made up of domestic and sexual violence experts, and members of the public health community to develop sustainable State or Territory-wide responses to domestic and sexual violence.
Click Here for the Project Connect 2.0 State/Territories application. Applications are due October 15, 2012, 11:59 PM PDT.
Download the recording of the State/Territories Webinar by following this link: http://bwjp.ilinc.com/join/cmbmcbf.
Tribal Health Sites
Based on the lessons learned with previous sites, Project Connect 2.0 is being expanded to include a larger number of Tribal grantees, with a focus on IHS/Tribal/Urban (I/T/U) health settings. We are inviting proposals to select five I/T/U health settings to work with us on this exciting initiative. Futures Without Violence will work with the OWH and a selection committee to select sites that demonstrate a strong history of collaboration between domestic and sexual violence, health care and public health systems, as well as a capacity and interest in the proposed program. The period of funding is January 1, 2013 through December 31, 2015. Selected grantees will receive $150,000 for the funding period. In each participating I/T/U, Futures Without Violence will work closely with new or existing leadership teams made up of domestic and sexual violence experts, and members of the public health community to develop sustainable responses to domestic and sexual violence.
Click Here for the Project Connect 2.0 Tribal Health application. Applications are due October 29, 2012, 11:59 PM PDT.
Download the recording of the August 28th & 29th overview of the Tribal Health Webinar by following this link: http://bwjp.ilinc.com/join/jxpfjtx.
If you have any questions about the initiative or the application, please contact:
Virginia Duplessis
Project Connect Program Manager
415 678-5610
vduplessis@futureswithoutviolence.org
