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This section profiles collaborations from across the United States that are working to improve services for women with disabilities and Deaf women who have experienced domestic violence, sexual assault and/or stalking. The collaborations profiled in this section receive funding through the U.S. Department of Justice, Office on Violence Against Women's Education, Training and Enhanced Services to End Violence Against and Abuse of Women with Disabilities Grant Program to support their work. This grant program provides funding to local collaborations made up of organizations that serve people with disabilities and those that serve survivors of domestic and sexual violence, as well as state-level collaborations comprised of coalitions and advocacy organizations that are working to foster change within multiple communities across their state.

The collaborations engage in an intensive planning and development phase to identify opportunities to create lasting change in their service delivery system.  As a first step, they work to strengthen and formalize their collaboration by determining their mission and vision, developing a common understanding and language, and determining how they can best work together. They document these agreements in a Collaboration Charter.  Each collaboration then gathers vital information about the strengths and gaps in their organizations' services delivery system, documenting their approach to gathering this information in a Needs Assessment Plan and documenting their findings in a formal Needs Assessment Report. In response to the findings from their needs assessment, the collaborations undertake a strategic planning process to identify a set of initiatives to address the gaps in their service delivery system.

After the planning and development period, these collaborations carry out their initiatives to increase each of their partner organization's capacities to serve survivors with disabilities and Deaf survivors. These collaborations also focus on enhancing the ways their partner organizations work together to better serve these survivors.

This section contains information on currently funded OVW Disability Grant Program collaborations, as well as information on past grantees, and the important and promising practices they are creating. As their work evolves, so will the information contained in this section. Please check back periodically for new information.

An asterisk (*) indicates that the collaboration is a Continuation Grantee.

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