Summary of Minor Changes to State Coalitions Form

Semi- Annual Progress Report for Grants to State Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault Coalitions (1122-0010)

1. In question 9, the instructions and the different types of staff have been revised to make them consistent with other forms.

2. The descriptions of the statutory purpose areas identified in question 10 have been revised to reflect statutory changes from VAWA 2005.

3. The types of people trained listed in question 13 were revised to make them consistent with other forms.

4. The training content areas listed in question 14 were revised to make them consistent where applicable with other OVW forms.

5. In question 18, new types of coordination activities were added.

6. Section C3 on the old form, Policies, was deleted.

7. There was one type of organization deleted in question 17, Improved System response.

8. In Question 21, previous categories of public awareness activities were combined in response to grantee comments.

9. Appendix A of the form, the section was deleted.

10. At the end of each section, an optional question was added that permits grantees to include additional narrative information about the effectiveness of the activities described in that section rather than group all the activities together in a response to the “catch-all” narrative question at the end of the form.

11. Throughout the form, categories in tables and lists were revised so that they reflected alphabetical order making them easier to complete.