State of Washington Dept of Commerce 12/10/2018

ATTACHMENT H Victim Safety and Recovery:The Grantee and Subgrantees, if applicable,agree that these funds will not support activities that compromise victim safety and recovery, such as: A. Procedures or policies that: 1. exclude victims from receiving safe shelter, advocacy services, counseling, and other assistance based on their actual or perceived sex, age, immigration status, race, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, mental health condition, physical health condition, criminal record,work in the sex industry, or the age and/or gender of their children; 2. compromise the confidentiality of information and privacy of persons receiving Office on Violence Against Women-funded services; 3. impose requirements on victims in order to receive services (e.g. seek an order of protection, receive counseling, participate in couples counseling or mediation, report to law enforcement, seek civil or criminal remedies, etc.); 4. fail to include conducting safety planning with victims and fail to account for the physical safety of victims; 5. deny victims and non-abusing parents or caretakers and their children access to services based on their involvement with the perpetrator; 6. require testing of sexual assault forensic evidence in cases where the victim obtained a medical forensic exam but has not chosen to participate in the criminal justice system; B. Requiring survivors to meet restrictive conditions in order to receive services (e.g. background checks of victims, clinical evaluations to determine eligibility for services.) or other screening processes that elicit information that is not necessary for services,such as questions about immigration status,gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, physical or mental health, and work or criminal history that the service provider does not need to know about to provide services safely; C. Project design and budget that fail to account for the access needs of participants with disabilities and participants who have limited English proficiency or who are Deaf or hard of hearing; D. Pre-trial diversion programs not approved by the Office on Violence Against Women or the automatic placement of offenders in such programs; E. Couples counseling, family counseling or any other manner of joint victim-offender counseling as a routine or required response to sexual assault, domestic violence, dating violence, or stalking, or in situations in which child sexual abuse is alleged; F. Mediation, couples counseling, family counseling or any other manner of joint victim-offender counseling; mandatory counseling for victims, penalizing victims who refuse to testify, or promoting procedures that would require victims to seek legal sanctions against their abusers (e.g., seek a protection order,file formal complaint);the placement of perpetrators in anger management programs; or any other activities outlined in the solicitation under which the approved application was submitted; G. Offering or ordering anger management programs for offenders as a substitute for batterer's intervention programs; H. Relying on batterer intervention programs that do not use court monitoring to hold batterers accountable for their behavior;and I. Enforcing or promoting nuisance abatement ordinances, crime-free housing ordinances, or crime-free lease addenda (often associated with crime-free housing programs) that require or encourage the eviction of tenants or residents who may be victims of domestic violence,sexual assault,dating violence or stalking. See also the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development for guidance on how such ordinances and addenda may violate the Fair Housing Act.