Children and Youth & Engaging Men Program

The Children and Youth & Engaging Men (CYEM) Program supports comprehensive, community-based efforts that develop and expand prevention, intervention, treatment, and response strategies to address the needs of children and youth impacted by domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking. In addition, the CYEM Program focuses on boys’ and men’s roles in ending violence against women by supporting projects that create educational programming and community organizing to encourage men and boys to work as allies with women and girls to prevent domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking. Through its grant awards, the CYEM Program aims to build safe, supportive, and accountable communities by preventing physical and sexual violence.

The CYEM program releases two separate funding opportunities under one program: 1) Children and Youth (CY) and 2) Engaging Men (EM).

The CY opportunity applications that address one of three purpose areas:

• Services and Training to Address Children Exposed to Domestic Violence, Dating Violence, Sexual Assault, and Stalking (ages 0-10)
• Creating Safer Communities for Youth: Prevention, Intervention, Treatment, and Response Services for Youth Impacted by Domestic Violence, Dating Violence, Sexual Assault, and Stalking (ages 11-24); or
• Providing School-Based Services: Prevention, Intervention, and Response to Dating Violence, Sexual Assault, and Stalking (ages 5-19).

The EM opportunity seeks applications that develop and implement strategies that engage, mobilize, and empower men and boys at individual, group, relational, and societal levels to serve as role models, positive influencers, change agents, and mentors to address and prevent domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking.

Eligible applicants are: nonprofit, nongovernmental entities; tribal organizations; Indian tribal governments; and units of local government or agencies of units of local government in the United States or U.S. territories.

In 2024, the CYEM program gave out 18 awards totaling $8.8 million under the CY program, and 10 awards totaling $3.35 million under the EM program.

To view grantees under this program and others for previous fiscal years, please visit OVW's awards webpage.

Since FY 2012, this program has been authorized by federal appropriations acts, which consolidated four previously authorized and appropriated programs into one comprehensive program.