October 14, 2025
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The Restorative Practices Pilot Sites Program is a 48-month funding opportunity seeking to support, strengthen, enhance, and expand existing restorative practice programs that prevent or address domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, or stalking, in accordance with the “restorative practices” definition at 34 U.S.C. § 12514(a)(3).
Program Goals
OVW grant program information: OVW Grants and Programs webpage.Data that recipients collect and report: VAWA Measuring Effectiveness Initiative webpage. What recipients have achieved and some of the evidence-based approaches they may haveused: OVW’s most recent report to Congress on the effectiveness of VAWA grant programs.
Purpose Areas
Funds under this program must be used to implement a program for restorative practices focused on preventing or addressing domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, or stalking.
Statutory Consideration
By statute (34 U.S.C. § 12514(c)), OVW must give priority to eligible entities that submit proposals that meaningfully address the needs of culturally specific or underserved populations. To receive consideration under this statutory priority area, an applicant must describe in the Proposal Narrative how its proposed restorative practices project will be tailored to address the needs of culturally specific or underserved populations in the proposed service area.
Priorities
Applications that fare well in merit review and substantively address one or more of the priorities listed below, to the extent consistent with the program’s authorizing statute, may receive priority consideration for funding:
1. Measures to combat human trafficking and transnational crime, particularly crimes linked toillegal immigration and cartel operations, that support safety and justice for trafficking victims who have also suffered domestic violence, sexual assault, dating violence, and/or stalking.
2. Projects to provide victim services, especially housing, and improve law enforcement response in rural and remote areas, Tribal nations, and small towns that often lack resources to effectively combat domestic violence and sexual assault.