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2006 Measuring Effectiveness Report to Congress Available

The U.S. Department of Justice's Office on Violence Against Women (OVW) provides federal grants to help communities across America develop innovative strategies to address violence against women.

OVW's implementation of key provisions of the Violence Against Women Act is making a significant difference in the lives of women who suffer sexual, domestic, and other forms of violence. According to the just-released 2006 Biennial Report to Congress on the Effectiveness of Grant Programs Under the Violence Against Women Act, OVW grantees:

• Reported serving 99,834 to 115,351 victims during each reporting period between January 2004 and June 2005. This represents 95.4 to 95.6 percent of all victims who requested services.
• Trained 416,649 professionals on a wide range of issues dealing with domestic violence, sexual assault, dating violence, and stalking and also helped victims obtain 216,516 protection orders (from July 2003 to June 2005).
• Reported making 86,060 arrests between July 2003 and June 2005, and reported referring 80,067 cases to prosecution (OVW Arrest Program grantees).
• Promoted an innovative, multidisciplinary, coordinated community response to sexual assault and domestic violence—involving judges, police, advocates, social services, and private nonprofit organizations—in communities throughout the nation.
• Supported innovations and advances in assisting historically underserved populations, including victims who are Indian, older, disabled, attending colleges or universities, and living in rural areas, and children who need safe places for visitation and exchange in cases of domestic violence, child abuse, sexual assault, or stalking.

The impact of this work, however, goes beyond the specific number of victims served each year or the number of arrests and prosecutions. Download the report now: PDF.

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