The Department of Criminal Justice Services (DCJS) is the administering agency for the Virginia Services,Training, Officers, Prosecution (V-STOP) Violence Against Women grant program. V-STOP offers grant funds to successful applicants for activities that increase the apprehension, prosecution and adjudication of persons committing violent crimes against women.

The funding period begins January 1, 2017 and continues through December 31, 2018.  Copies of the V-STOP guidelines, including the necessary grant application forms and instructions, may be downloaded below.

To aid applicants in their grant preparation, DCJS is sponsoring a grant application training for new VSTOP grant applicants.

The training for new applicants will be held on Wednesday, July 27, 2016, from 2:00p.m. – 4:30 p.m. at the Varina Branch of the Henrico County Public Library located at 1875 New Market Road  Henrico, VA  23231.  We encourage all new applicants to attend the training.  Pre-registration is required to attend.  There is no registration fee.

Wednesday, July 27, 2016                                Register

All applications must be received via email to grantsmgmt@dcjs.virginia.gov by DCJS by 11:59 p.m. on Friday, September 2, 2016.  Late applications will not be accepted.  Faxed applications copies will notbe accepted.  

DCJS staff and subject matter experts will review all applications and make programmatic and budgetary recommendations for consideration by a committee of the Criminal Justice Services Board (CJSB). The committee will meet in early December to review the recommendations and will make final recommendations for consideration by the full CJSB on December 15, 2016. 

I urge you to carefully review the information and if you have any questions, please contact Julia Fuller-Wilson at (804) 371-0386 or Julia.fuller-wilson@dcjs.virginia.gov.