SASP

Priority will be given to programs that can and will promote civil rights (including by meeting the needs of underserved and marginalized survivors), improve access to justice for survivors, and enhance survivor safety.

For the purposes of this solicitation, underserved communities are communities consisting of “populations who face barriers in accessing and using victim services, and include populations that are underserved because of geographic location, religion, sexual orientation, or gender identity; underserved racial and ethnic populations; and populations that are underserved because of special needs (such as language barriers, disabilities, alienage status, or age).

Out-of-scope Activities

The activities listed below are out of the program scope, and they will not be supported by this program’s funding.

• Research projects. Funds under this program may not be used to conduct research, defined in 28 C.F.R. § 46.102(d) as a systematic investigation designed to develop or contribute to generalizable knowledge. Surveys and focus groups, depending on their design and purpose, may constitute research and therefore be out-of-scope.
• Activities focused on prevention efforts and public education (e.g., bystander intervention, social norms campaigns, presentations on healthy relationships, etc.).
• Criminal justice-related projects, including law enforcement, prosecution, courts, and forensic interviews.
• Sexual Assault Forensic Medical Examiner programs.
• Sexual Assault Response Team coordination.
• Providing training to allied professionals and the community (e.g., law enforcement, child protection services, prosecution, other community-based organizations, etc.).
• Domestic violence services unrelated to sexual violence.

Unallowable Activities

This grant program does not fund activities that jeopardize victim safety, deter, or prevent physical or emotional healing for victims, or allow offenders to escape responsibility for their actions. The following activities have been found to jeopardize victim safety, deter, or prevent physical or emotional healing for victims, or allow offenders to escape responsibility for their actions. In planning a SASP proposal, please ensure that these activities are not included:

• Procedures or policies that exclude victims from receiving safe shelter, advocacy services, counseling, and other assistance based on their actual or perceived sex, age, immigration status, race, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, mental health condition, physical health condition, criminal record, work in the sex industry, income or lack of income, or the age and/or sex of their children.
• Procedures or policies that compromise the confidentiality of information and/or privacy of persons receiving services.
• Procedures or policies that require victims to take certain actions (e.g., seek an order of protection, receive counseling, participate in couples counseling or mediation, report to law enforcement, seek civil or criminal remedies) in order to receive services.
• Procedures or policies that fail to include conducting safety planning with victims.
• Project designs, products, services, and/or budgets that fail to account for the unique needs of individuals with disabilities, with limited English proficiency, or who are Deaf or hard of hearing, including accessibility for such individuals.
• Using technology without addressing implications for victim confidentiality, safety planning, and the need for informed consent.
• Partnering with individuals or organizations that support/promote practices that compromise victim safety and recovery or undermine offender accountability.
• Materials that are not tailored to the dynamics of sexual assault or to the specific population(s) to be addressed by the project.
• Policies that deny individuals access to services based on their relationship to the perpetrator.

The following budget items listed below are ineligible and will not be supported by this program’s funding:

• Food and beverages except emergency food and beverages for victims.
• Lobbying.
• Fundraising (including financial campaigns, endowment drives, solicitation of gifts and bequests, and similar expenses incurred solely to raise capital or obtain contributions) and time spent procuring funding including completing federal and state funding applications.
• Purchase of real estate or vehicles.
• Construction and physical modification to buildings, including minor renovations (such as painting or carpeting).
• Overtime is allowed, but to claim the overtime rate, there must be a separate line item in the budget that includes the overtime rate of pay.

Administrative costs are an allowable expense but are limited to 10% of the total grant funded budget.  Administrative costs include time to complete SASP required time and attendance sheets and programmatic documentation, reports, and required statistics; administrative time to collect and maintain satisfaction surveys; and needs assessments used to improve services delivery within the SASP funded project.

• Preventing Sexual Assault in Disasters
• Working with Teen Survivors of Sexual Assault
• Unspoken Crimes: Sexual Assault in Rural America
• Holistic Healing for Survivors
• Holistic Healing Research Addendum
• SASP Sample Reporting Form