Resources: VAWA 2005 Short Summary

Title I - Crimes and Courts

Reauthorizes:

• STOP Grants
• Grants to Encourage Arrest
• Legal Assistance for Victims
• Sex Offender Management
• Stalker Databases
• Federal Victim Assistance
• Child Abuse Advocate Training

Authorizes:

• Prisoner Re-entry and Mentoring
• VAWA Court Improvement Act
• Privacy Protections Programs for Victims

Expands

• Sexual Assault Victims Rights
• Full Faith and Credit

Title II-Services

Reauthorizes:

• Rural Domestic Violence, Dating Violence, Sexual Assault, Stalking and Child Abuse
• Enforcement Assistance Victims of Abuse in Later Life
• Training for Law Enforcement
• Women with Disabilities Program

Authorizes:

• Community Public Awareness Program
• Sexual Assault Services Act

Title III-Children & Youth

Reauthorizes:

• Rape Prevention & Education Program
• Campus Grants
• Safe Havens

Authorizes:

• Teen Victim Services
• Prevention and Education in Middle and High Schools
• Court Demonstration Grants for Addressing Domestic Violence, dating Violence, Sexual Assault, and Stalking in Youth.
• Grants for Training and Collaboration Among child Welfare Agencies, Domestic Violence Victim Service Providers, Courts. Law Enforcement, etc.
• Commission to Establish Mentoring Programs for youth in amateur sports

Amends:

• Juvenile Justice Assistance for Girls

Title IV-Prevention

Authorizes:

• Services for children and youth exposed to violence against women
• Home Visitation Training and Screening
• Engaging Men and Youth in Preventing Violence Against Women
• Research by CDC on prevention and Intervention and violence reduction

Title V-Health Care Response

Authorizes:

• Training of Health Professionals
• State and Local Public Health Initiatives
• Screening, Identification, Treatment and Referral in Maternal and Child Health and Federal Health Center responses
• Research on Effective Interventions in the Health Setting to Address Domestic Violence.

Title VI-Housing

Reauthorizes:

• Transitional Housing Assistance for Victims of Domestic Violence, Dating Violence, Sexual Assault, or Stalking.

Authorizes:

• Grants to Develop Long-Term Housing for Victims.
• Combating Violence Against Women in Public and Assisted Housing
• Training and Collaboration Between Victim and Homeless Service Providers
• Discrimination Protection for Victims in the Sale or Rental of Housing, in Residential Real Estate Transactions and Other Prohibited Practices.

Amends:

• Consolidated Plan and Public and Indian Housing Authority Reporting to include Domestic Violence, Sexual Assault, and Stalking.
• McKinney-Vento Homelessness Assistance Act to Protect victim confidentiality
• Low Income Housing Assistance and Public Housing Programs to protect victims.

Title VII-Economic Security

Provides:

• Entitlement to unpaid emergency leave
• Entitlement to unemployment insurance where violence causes the need to leave the job
• Proscribes insurance discrimination against victims of domestic violence
• Creates a clearing house on for employers on intimate partner violence and its effect on the workplace, and best practices and polices for employers

Title VIII-Immigrant Issues

Contains:

• Technical improvements to existing VAWA and DHS protections for victims of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, stalking, and trafficking
  WISH Act

Title IX-Tribal Programs

Contains:

• Creation of Tribal Division in OVW to Administer Tribal Programs
• Increases tribal set asides to 10%
• New research programs on services and protection for Indian women
• Creates a Tribal Advisory Commission

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