# Safe Access for Victims’ Economic Security (SAVES) Center

Source: https://welltoldgrants.com/grants/hhs-2022-acf-ocse-fd-0018-safe-access-for-victims-economic-security-saves-center/  
Official notice: https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/335445

> Administration for Children and Families - OCSE offered grants of up to $5.9 million (at least $5.0 million) to state and local governments and tribes. It expected to make one award worth $5.9 million in total. Applications closed on June 1, 2022.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Opportunity number | HHS-2022-ACF-OCSE-FD-0018 |
| Agency | Administration for Children and Families - OCSE |
| Status | Forecast |
| Deadline | June 1, 2022 |
| Award ceiling | $5.9 million |
| Award floor | $5.0 million |
| Expected awards | 1 |
| Total funding | $5.9 million |
| Cost sharing | not required |
| Assistance Listings | 93.564 |

## Who can apply

- State governments
- Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized)
- Native American tribal organizations (other than Federally recognized tribal governments)

State Title IV-D agencies, or the umbrella agency and Tribal Title IV-D agencies operating comprehensive programs. Applications from individuals (including sole proprietorships) and foreign entities are not eligible and will be disqualified from competitive review and from funding under this funding opportunity announcement.

## What the grant funds

The Office of Child Support Enforcement (OCSE) issues this Forecast to announce available funding for eligible applicants to submit applications for the Safe Access for Victims’ Economic Security (SAVES) Center grant. The grant recipient will be responsible for establishing a national technical assistance, training, and research center to increase safe access to child support, paternity, and parenting time services for victims of domestic violence. The SAVES Center will conduct research to establish baseline data on victims’ needs and barriers to accessing child support services, gather information on promising practices for safe access to child support and parenting time, and build the capacity of state and tribal child support agencies to integrate comprehensive domestic violence safety procedures into child support program services. Additionally, it will develop and refine training materials and practice guides for child support case managers and legal staff, test and evaluate impacts of domestic violence safety procedures on victim access to child support and parenting time services, and develop and disseminate model domestic violence policies for child support agencies. It will accomplish this by leading cross-system collaborations with assistance agencies, the courts, legal services providers, and domestic violence service providers and coalitions. The grant project should identify national, regional, state, and tribal domestic violence experts who will partner with the applicant in developing and disseminating technical assistance and training resources to child support agency staff, court staff, and community based domestic violence program staff. Grantees are expected to engage a research partner or partners to: conduct primary data collection on incidence of domestic violence with child support program participants, identify barriers to safe access to child support and parenting time services for victims, and assess model domestic violence procedures implemented by state and tribal child support agencies. The SAVES Center will provide training, technical assistance, and research services to OCSE-funded SAVES implementation grantee sites (see companion Forecast), to additional State and Tribal Title IV-D child support agencies, to Title IV-D Judicial officers, and to national, state, tribal, and local domestic violence service providers.

## Questions people ask

### Is HHS-2022-ACF-OCSE-FD-0018 still open?

No. It closed on June 1, 2022.

### Who can apply for Safe Access for Victims’ Economic Security (SAVES) Center?

Administration for Children and Families - OCSE accepted applications from state and local governments and tribes. The notice adds further conditions, so read its eligibility section.

### What is the deadline for Safe Access for Victims’ Economic Security (SAVES) Center?

Closed June 1, 2022. Applications are no longer accepted; the program's newer notices are on this page when there are any.

### How much funding is available?

Awards of up to $5.9 million each. About $5.9 million in total for one award.

### Who has won Child Support Enforcement Research grants before?

The largest recipients over five fiscal years were Department of Human Services Colorado, Minnesota Department of Human Services, Michigan Department of Health and Human Services. The program made 36 awards worth $38.9 million in that time.