Activating Change
A technical assistance provider on issues related to people with disabilities and Deaf individuals, including how to plan for an accessible event, materials, and services.
UTAP Partners, Collaborators & Extended Network
UTAP collaborates with subject matter experts as consultants on our technical assistance events such as peer-to-peer meetings, online training opportunities, institutes, written products, and individualized consultation services.
Given the diverse pool of OVW Underserved Grantees and the diversity of the populations they serve, collaborating with an extended network of consultants and other national TA providers ensures that UTAP remains responsive to the needs of Grantees and the communities they serve.
Explore Our Network
Extended Network of National Technical Assistance Providers
As the Comprehensive Technical Assistance Provider for OVW’s Grants for Outreach and Services to Underserved Populations (Underserved Program), ALSO provides direct technical assistance (TA) to Underserved Grantees, as well as help connect Grantees to other OVW-funded technical assistance providers for specific assistance outside the ALSO’s and partners’ expertise. The following is a list of these national technical assistance providers.
The Army of Survivors
The Army of Survivors’ mission is to bring awareness, accountability, and transparency to sexual violence against athletes at all levels. Awareness of sexual violence at all levels of sport. Accountability for perpetrators and the institutions that enable them. Transparency so athletes do not fear retaliation when reporting abuse, and institutions do not cover it up.
Asian Pacific Institute on Gender-Based Violence (API-GBV)
A national resource center on domestic violence, sexual violence, trafficking, and other forms of gender-based violence in Asian and Pacific Islander communities.
Battered Women Justice Project
BWJP is the national legal resource for gender-based violence. Their work addresses the many facets of gender-based violence, such as complex family dynamics, the importance of protection orders, the risk of firearms, and how to prevent the violence in the first place.
Caminar Latino
Caminar Latino creates opportunities for Latino families to transform their lives and communities and works to change the social conditions that give rise to violence.
Elevate | Uplift
A technical assistance provider supported by a collective of national organizations leading anti-sexual violence work, is built on the foundation of lessons learned from the Sexual Assault Demonstration Initiative, a multi-year national project that helped community-based organizations strengthen services for survivors of sexual violence.
Esperanza United (Casa de Esperanza)
A national resource center for organizations working with Latin@s experiencing domestic violence in the United States.
Futures Without Violence
For more than 30 years, FUTURES has been providing groundbreaking programs, policies, and campaigns that empower individuals and organizations working to end violence against women and children around the world.
National Clearinghouse on Abuse in Later Life (NCALL)
A technical assistance provider on issues related to elder abuse and abuse in later life.
National Immigrant Women’s Advocacy Project (NIWAP)
The National Immigrant Women’s Advocacy Project (NIWAP, pronounced new-app) addresses the needs of immigrant women, immigrant children and immigrant victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, and other crimes by advocating for reforms in law, policy and practice.
National Indigenous Women’s Resource Center (NIWRC)
A Native nonprofit organization that was created specifically to serve as the National Indian Resource Center (NIRC) Addressing Domestic Violence and Safety for Indian Women.
The National Network to End Domestic Violence (NNEDV)
The National Network to End Domestic Violence (NNEDV), a social change organization, is dedicated to creating a social, political, and economic environment in which violence against women no longer exists.
National Organization of Asians and Pacific Islanders Ending Sexual Violence (NAPIESV)
NAPIESV provides technical assistance and support to local/community-based programs and governmental organizations in enhancing their services to victims of sexual violence from the Asian and Pacific Islander communities nationally and in the U.S. territories.
National Sexual Violence Resource Center (NSVRC)
The National Sexual Violence Resource Center (NSVRC) is the leading nonprofit in providing information and tools to prevent and respond to sexual violence. NSVRC translates research and trends into best practices that help individuals, communities and service providers achieve real and lasting change.
Praxis International
Praxis International, Inc. is a nonprofit corporation, working toward the elimination of violence in the lives of women and their children. It is the mission of Praxis International to join with other progressive social change organizations and programs to work toward the elimination of oppression in our society. Specifically, Praxis focuses on the many ways that violence is used to subjugate women.
Safe Havens
Safe Havens empowers diverse faith communities and their local service providers to work together to end domestic and sexual violence and elder abuse and to speak out with moral authority against abuse and the systemic oppressions and inequities that are used to justify abuse and create additional barriers to safety.
The Stalking Prevention, Awareness, & Resource Center (SPARC)
The Stalking Prevention, Awareness, & Resource Center (SPARC) is a federally funded project providing education and resources about the crime of stalking. SPARC aims to enhance the response to stalking by educating the professionals tasked with keeping stalking victims safe and holding offenders accountable.
Ujima: National Center on Violence Against Women in the Black Community
Serves as a national, culturally-specific services issue resource center to provide support to and be a voice for the Black Community in response to domestic, sexual and community violence.
Women of Color Network (WOCN)
The Women of Color Network, Inc. (WOCN) is a national grassroots initiative dedicated to building the capacity of women of color advocates and activists responding to violence against women in communities of color.