Description
The Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health (OASH) Office on Women's Health (OWH) is soliciting applications for initiatives that provide safe homes for sexually exploited and/or abused women or girls. These safe homes must provide longer-term housing and comprehensive multidisciplinary care that addresses the physical, psychological, emotional, social, and educational needs of the girls and/or women they serve. The goal of this funding opportunity is to improve healthcare providers' ability to help victims of violence and prevent further violence and re-traumatization by providing female victims of sexual exploitation and/or abuse with the comprehensive, therapeutic, and around-the-clock staffed care that they need.
• The application must propose the operation or expansion of a residential program that prioritizes longer-term, supportive residential care for months or years.
• The proposed program must include access to multidisciplinary, comprehensive services, addressing at minimum physical health, psychological and emotional well-being, social support, and educational or vocational development.
• Applicants must demonstrate the ability to maintain adequate, consistent, and qualified staff, including access to licensed counselors, with minimal employee turnover.
• The application must describe a program model that provides trauma-informed, therapeutic care designed to support recovery from severe and repeated trauma.