# Family Violence Prevention and Services

**Agency:** Health & Human Services  
**Account:** Discretionary Programs  
**Source document:** Administration for Children, Families, and Communities · p. 10  
**Vintage:** President's Budget PB2027  
**Canonical URL:** https://hitchintel.com/budget/hhs/family-violence-prevention-and-services  

> **Trust:** parsed from the agency Congressional Justification. Approximate, **not summable**, verify at the cited page.

## Funding ($M)

| Fiscal year | Basis | Amount |
| --- | --- | --- |
| FY2025 | enacted | 240.0 |
| FY2026 | enacted | 245.0 |
| FY2027 | request | 245.0 |

## Health & Human Services discretionary budget authority (OMB PBDB — authoritative)

FY2027 $91.60B, FY2026 $131.10B. This is the agency total, not a sum of the parsed lines.


## What this funds

The Family Violence Prevention and Services Act (FVPSA) program is authorized by the Child Abuse Amendments Act of 1984 (P.L. 98-457), as most recently amended by the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Reauthorization Act of 2010 (P.L. 111-320). The program provides funding to support programs and projects that work to prevent incidents of family violence, domestic violence, and dating violence and to provide immediate shelter and supportive services for adult and youth survivors of The statute includes the following funding requirements for the FVPSA appropriation not reserved for the Specialized Services for Abused Parents and Their Children (SSAPC): ' not less than 70 percent is awarded in grants to states and territories, ' not less than 10 percent is awarded to Indian tribes (including Alaska Natives) and tribal ' not less than 10 percent is awarded to State Domestic Violence Coalitions (SDVC), ' not less than 6 percent is for the network of information and technical assistance centers, and ' not more than 2.5 percent may be set aside for program administration, evaluation, and Grants to states and territories are allocated based on each state's population, with a minimum of not less than one-eighth of one percent of the amounts available allocated to territories. FVPSA specifies that a state may use no more than five percent of its allotment for administrative costs and must distribute the remaining funds to local public agencies and non-profit private organizations, including faith-based and charitable organizations, community-based organizations, and tribal organizations. Not less than 70 percent of the funding awarded through state sub-grants must be used for the primary purpose of providing immediate shelter and supportive services. States may use the remaining funds to: ' assist survivors in the development of safety plans and decisions related to safety and well-being; ' provide counseling, peer support groups, and referrals to community-based services; ' provide services, training, and technical assistance and outreach to increase awareness of family violence, domestic violence, and dating violence, and to increase accessibility of services; ' provide culturally and linguistically appropriate services; Administration for Children, Families, and Communities Page 101 ' provide specialized services for children exposed to family violence, domestic violence, or dating ' provide advocacy, case management, information, and referral services; and


**Where it sits:** Civilian / Non-Defense › Health & Human Services › Administration for Children, Families, and Communities › Discretionary Programs › Children & Families Services Programs


*HitchAI is an independent intelligence service, not affiliated with the U.S. government. Civilian line dollars are parsed from agency Congressional Justifications and are approximate.*