Explanation
BACKGROUND: The City of Columbus has been awarded an extension to FY2020 Improving Criminal Justice Responses Subgrant Award (Blueprint for Safety: An Inter-Agency Response to Domestic Violence) from the Department of Justice, Office on Violence Against Women (VAWA) and the Ohio Office of Criminal Justice Services via the Franklin County Board of Commissioners, Office of Justice Policy and Programs. The VAWA program provides funding to allow states and local governments to support a broad range of activities to reduce domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking by strengthening services to victims and holding offenders accountable. The total VAWA extension amount to the City of Columbus is $46,909.00. The total project costs will be $46,909.00.
CPD will collaborate with Franklin County Municipal Court, Department of Pretrial and Probation Services, Columbus City Attorney’s Office Domestic Violence Unit, Franklin County Sherriff’s Office and the Center for Family Safety and Healing to apply a collective impact approach to domestic violence. They will continue to build off local successes by linking best practice communication protocols, risk assessments and evidence collection tactics occurring at each justice phase. Through the Blueprint process, justice and victim advocacy practitioners work collaboratively to review and update current response protocols/practices and develop standard methods for proactive data sharing. This results in a single, written response policy with clearly outlined protocols for each practitioner’s role, responsibility, specific action and documentation duties. To this end, the extension funds will cover city CPD overtime costs for this grant cycle.
The City must act as subgrantee to the Franklin County Office of Justice Policy and Programs. Therefore, the Director of Public Safety is required to sign a subgrantee award on behalf of the City. The official City program contact authorized to act in...
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