National Tribal Clearinghouse on Sexual Assault Solicitation (DOJ)

• Published date: 18 June 2020
• Date: 18 June 2020
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.1002/fgc.31136

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Grants alert (cont.)

promising ideas in DMD into clinical applications.

Deadline: Pre-applications, Aug. 12, 2020; proposals,

Dec. 7, 2020.

Funds: Approximately $3.84 million for approximately two

Translational Research Partnership Award applications.

Eligibility: Unrestricted.

Areas: DOD said the award supports the development

of translational research collaborations between two

independent investigators to address a critical problem or

question in DMD in a manner that would be less readily

achievable through separate efforts. Partnerships where

one partner in the collaboration is a research scientist

and the other a clinician are strongly encouraged. See the

announcement for a complete list of potential areas.

➜ www.grants.gov; FON# W81XWH-20-DMDRP-TRPA

Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy, Idea

Development Award (DOD)

Scope: The Defense Department’s U.S. Army Medical

Research Acquisition Activity seeks applications

for the Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD), Idea

Development Award announcement to support the

development of innovative, high-risk/high-reward

research that could lead to critical discoveries or major

advancements that will accelerate progress in improving

outcomes for individuals with DMD.

Deadline: Pre-applications, Aug. 12, 2020; proposals,

Dec. 7, 2020.

Funds: Approximately $4.48 million for approximately

eight Idea Development Award applications.

Eligibility: Unrestricted.

Areas: DOD said studies proposed under this award may

include: delivery to skeletal muscle and heart (e.g., ligand

assisted, nanoparticles, identication of biological barriers

to delivery and alternative vectors) immunosuppression,

vector modication and other strategies to facilitate repeat

administration of biologic therapies; targeting muscle

stem cells; and cell-based therapies, including but not

limited to: selection of novel cell types, expansion, cell

delivery and homing, differentiation and integration.

➜ www.grants.gov; FON# W81XWH-20-DMDRP-IDA

National Tribal Clearinghouse on Sexual Assault

Solicitation (DOJ)

Scope: The Justice Department’s Office on Violence

Against Women seeks applications for the FY2020

National Tribal Clearinghouse on Sexual Assault

Solicitation announcement to provide training and technical

assistance designed to improve victim services for and

criminal and civil justice response to American Indian and

Alaskan Native (AI/AN) sexual assault victims as well as

increase offender accountability for such crimes.

Deadline: July 23, 2020.

Funds: $500,000 total for up to two awards ranging from

$250,000 to $500,000.

Eligibility: Colleges and universities, nonprot

organizations and Native American tribal organizations.

Areas: DOJ said funding may be used to establish,

sustain and/or expand training, educational programs

and technical assistance on issues relating to sexual

assault of AI/AN women. Funding priority will be given

to applicants proposing innovative ways of reaching

a national audience of entities addressing the sexual

assault of AI/AN women, including tribal and nontribal

organizations within urban areas.

➜ www.grants.gov; FON# OVW-2020-18533

Sta trauma and organizational stress

in community supervision agencies (DOJ)

Scope: The Justice Department’s National Institute of

Corrections seeks applications for the Responding to

Staff Trauma and Organizational Stress in Community

Supervision Agencies announcement to develop a reliable

list of effective approaches to staff and organizational stress

and trauma in community corrections supervision agencies.

Deadline: July 28, 2020.

Funds: $75,000 for one award for a one-year project period.

Eligibility: Colleges and universities, for-prot

organizations, nonprot organizations and Native

American tribal organizations.

Areas: DOJ said successful applicants will work at

accessing and reviewing available and emerging

research and information on the subject of vicarious

trauma, secondary trauma, compassion fatigue and

job-related stress in the eld of community supervision

and related disciplines to provide the background for

determining the current understanding of this issue and

provide the foundation for interviews, focus groups,

surveys, polling and other information-gathering

activities. Through these activities, it is assumed that

successful strategies currently utilized by community

supervision agencies will emerge and will be the

foundation for recommendations regarding effective

approaches that could be replicated in other agencies.

➜ www.grants.gov; FON# 20CS15

Video Production: Community Supervision

Leadership Symposium (DOJ)

Scope: The Justice Department’s National Institute

of Corrections (NIC) seeks applications for the Video

Production: Community Supervision Leadership

Symposium announcement to produce three to

four 90-minute videos capturing formal lectures on

community supervision–specic topics, several short

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