Attorney General Masto Announces Grant Awards for Services to Victims of Sexual and Domestic Violence


February 14, 2014

Over $1.5 million in funding granted

    Las Vegas, NV – Nevada Attorney General Catherine Cortez Masto announces the awarding of $1,265,124 in Services Training Officers Prosecution (STOP) Violence Against Women Formula Grant funding and $247,954 in Sexual Assault Service Provider Formula Grant funding (SASP) for Calendar Year 2014.

      “We are excited to financially back the agencies that do so much for our community and provide services to victims of sexual and domestic violence,” said Masto.

        Forty-seven agencies received grant awards to fund services provided to victims of sexual and domestic violence, as well as law enforcement and prosecution efforts to combat domestic violence and court compliance projects throughout Nev. A list of the STOP and SASP grantees is available on our website, ag.nv.gov.

          STOP supports communities in their efforts to develop and strengthen effective victim services, law enforcement and prosecution strategies to combat the crimes of intimate partner or domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault and stalking. This program further encourages partnerships among police, prosecutors, the judiciary, victim advocates and service providers, health care providers, faith leaders, and other community agencies that provide protection and services to victims and their families; it also helps to keep offenders accountable for their crimes.

            SASP funds similar work but is limited to nonprofit, nongovernmental providers of direct services specific to all victims of sexual violence.

              The STOP and SASP Formula Grant Programs are authorized and funded under the federal Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) are awarded annually.

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