Current Grant Awards

Ad Hoc Grants

The FACT Board allocated a total of $300,000 in ad hoc grant support for local government and non-profit organizations to improve the prevention, treatment, or public awareness of family violence in Virginia for Fiscal Year 2026. The following programs/events were selected during the first round of funding:

Statewide Conferences & Activities

nexEO 2025
- October 2-3, 2025, EO Regional Workforce + Child Development Hub
- More information and registration can be found here.
Virginia Community Health Workers Association (VACHWA) Conference 2025
- October 9-11, 2025, Portsmouth VA
- More information and registration can be found here.
Prosecutors Alliance – developing a trauma-responsive training, informed by survivor listening sessions, for prosecutors & victim advocates in Virginia
Transformative Changes – Crisis to Care Leadership Cohort

Organizational Capacity Building & Staff Development

The following organizations received funding for strategic planning, staff or volunteer training, or equipment upgrades.

Henrico County Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA) Inc.
LGBT Life Center
Voices for Virginia’s Children
CASA of Central Virginia
Raegan Sharnae Way
CASA Children’s Intervention Services
Colonial CASA Program
Chesterfield CASA
Virginia Association for Infant Mental Health
Family Crisis Support Services
City of Winchester
Children’s Advocacy Center of Highlands Community Services
Families Forward Virginia
Richmond Department of Social Services- Healthy Families Richmond
The Center for Alexandria’s Children
enCircle
The Women’s Center
Connections Family Resource Center
Piedmont CASA, Inc.

Local Trainings & Activities

Virginia Beach Court Improvement Conference 2026
- January 16, 2026, Doubletree by Hilton Virginia Beach Oceanfront
- More information and registration can be found here.
2nd Annual Hope and Healing Conference
- April/May 2026, Hampton Roads
People Incorporated of Virginia
- Comprehensive Health Investment Project (CHIP) staff will provide Mothers and Babies, an evidence-based intervention for pregnant women and new parents to help manage stress and prevent postpartum depression. Staff will also receive additional training.
Children’s Trust
- Provide Trauma Basics, Trauma 2.0, and other trainings through the Roanoke Valley Trauma Informed Community Network (RVTICN)
Central Virginia Community Justice
- Developing a learning collaborative in the Charlottesville/Albemarle area on restorative justice for intimate partner violence

A map of organization service areas funded through ad hoc grants. Dark blue areas have multiple organizations funded who service the community.

Child Sexual Abuse Prevention

In FY25, the CAN Advisory Committee worked in partnership with stakeholders and field experts to create a state plan for the prevention of child sexual assault. This plan is intended to be used as a preliminary, informative guide for policy makers and advocates to address child safety and wellbeing challenges through a state-based framework. This is the first step in a unified position on child sexual abuse prevention efforts across state partners.

In order to expand these prevention efforts on the local level, FACT established a grant program in FY25 that provided $10,000 grants to nine Child Advocacy Centers (CACs) across Virginia to support evidence informed and promising practices at the local level for the prevention of child sexual abuse. These CACs will provide prevention activities to their communities throughout 2025 and early 2026.

Prevention of Abuse Against People with Disabilities

In Fiscal Year 2024, in partnership with the Virginia Department of Health, FACT supported Richmond Residential Services Inc. and The Arc of Harrisonburg and Rockingham to become Leadership for Empowerment and Abuse Prevention (LEAP) Certified Centers for Abuse Prevention and Safety (C-CAPS).

Developed in collaboration between VCU’s School of Social Work and the Partnership for People with Disabilities, LEAP provides training on healthy relationships and information about preventing abuse to adults with disabilities. The training takes place in four face-to-face 90-minute sessions that are taught by a trainer with a disability and a co-trainer. The two organizations had two staff members and two individuals with disabilities who utilize their services become LEAP trainers. These trainers will continue to facilitate two LEAP trainings a year and create an organizational culture of empowerment and abuse prevention.

In Fiscal Year 2025, in partnership with The Arc of Virginia, FACT allocated funding to help expand the LEAP Program to Roanoke and Hampton Roads over the next two years. Both sites will employ part-time staff dedicated to the LEAP Project with support from the Partnership for People with Disabilities.

Problematic Sexual Behavior Project

FACT has allocated funding for Phase II of the Problematic Sexual Behavior (PSB) Project. Throughout the first year of Phase II, our contractor has worked in collaboration with the FACT PSB Advisory Workgroup to develop a 3-day Train the Trainer curriculum and a toolkit for Multi-Disciplinary Teams (MDT) who respond to these cases locally. This curriculum will be based on the guidance document developed during Phase I.

During the second year of Phase II, beginning early 2026, three pilot communities will be selected to receive the train-the-trainer program by four MDT members. Each training will be conducted by 2-3 professional trainers from different professional backgrounds and have 12 attendees. Attendees will learn best practice responses, skills for implementation, as well as how to present the community response to PSB material to their community.

Emergency Funds Project

The FACT Board of Trustees understands the interconnection of poverty and trauma and how it is more important than ever to support families in whatever way possible. That is why they established the FACT Emergency Fund. FACT recognizes that there has been substantial financial support provided by the federal government to states and localities to meet some of these needs, however those funds are restricted to specific issues like housing and food.

These funds have been critical to our communities across Virginia. They go towards many of the unexpected expenses families who live paycheck to paycheck face, that have increased during this public health crisis. We know that having to choose between covering the cost of a car or critical home repair, or paying a fee and expenses so your child can participate in an afterschool activity, can place a significant level of stress on families who are already struggling to survive. These funds can help to increase the resiliency for some of these families in Virginia.

In FY 2025, FACT provided Emergency Fund awards to:

17 Domestic Violence/Sexual Violence Agencies
19 Home Visiting Agencies
2 Two-Generation/Whole Family Pilot Agencies

These agencies will be providing critical funding to their communities throughout 2025 and early 2026.

A map of agency coverage under the Emergency Funds Project

Previous FACT Grants

In the past FACT has given direct service grants and systems/community change grants. Summaries of past projects can be found below. This includes programs that offer supports such as parenting education classes, shelter services, outreach and counseling services, services for children exposed to domestic violence, family violence fatality teams, child visitation centers, volunteer court advocacy programs, and elderly support services.