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Supporting Statement for Paperwork Reduction Act Submission
Semiannual Performance Report for Enhanced Training and Services to End
Abuse in Later Life Program
A. Justification
1.

Statutorily Mandated Need for Information

The Enhanced Training and Services to End Abuse in Later Life Program (Abuse in Later
Life Program) funds projects that support a comprehensive approach to addressing elder abuse in
their communities. These projects will provide training to criminal justice professionals to
enhance their ability to address elder abuse, neglect, and exploitation; provide cross-training
opportunities to professionals working with older victims; establish or support a coordinated
community response to elder abuse; and provide or enhance services for victims who are 50
years of age or older. Eligible applicants are limited to: states, units of local government, tribal
governments or tribal organizations, population specific organizations with demonstrated
experience in assisting individuals over 50 years of age, victim service providers with
demonstrated experience in addressing domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and
stalking, and state, tribal, or territorial domestic violence or sexual assault coalitions. This
program is authorized by 34 U.S.C. § 12421.
Currently, there are different statutory and regulatory reporting requirements that affect
Abuse in Later Life Program grantees. VAWA requires all grantees, including Abuse in Later
Life Program grantees, to report on the effectiveness of their programs to the Attorney General
who, in turn, must report to Congress every two years. Section 1003 of VAWA 2000 states that
(a) REPORT BY GRANT RECIPIENTS.- The Attorney General or Secretary of
Health and Human Services, as applicable, shall require grantees under any
program authorized or reauthorized by this division or an amendment made by
this division to report on the effectiveness of the activities carried out with
amounts made available to carry out that program, including number of persons
served, if applicable, numbers of persons seeking services who could not be
served and such other information as the Attorney General or Secretary may
prescribe.
(b) REPORT TO CONGRESS.- The Attorney General or Secretary of
Health and Human Services, as applicable, shall report biennially to the
Committees on the Judiciary of the House of Representatives and the
Senate on the grant programs described in subsection (a), including the
information contained in any report under that subsection.
34 U.S.C. §10228.
OVW must also comply with the Government Performance and Results Act of 1993
(GPRA) (Pub. L. 103-62) which was enacted to increase Congressional and Administrative focus
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on the results from government programs and activities. To meet its GPRA reporting obligations
and elicit more meaningful information about grantee performance, OVW has recently
developed performance measures, including output measures, regarding which the Abuse in
Later Life Program grantees must report on a semiannual basis.
2.

Use of Information

OVW uses data from the information collection 1 in different ways. OVW will use the
information collected from Abuse in Later Life Program grantees to monitor their grant-funded
activities and qualitatively assess those activities. In particular, OVW is seeking data that
includes baseline information to review activities supported with Abuse in Later Life Program
funds, including, for example, an increase in the number of trainings or an increase in the
number of victims served. OVW will review each semiannual performance report to monitor
individual grantee’s performance, including the grant-funded activities and to ensure that the
goals and objectives set forth in applications for funding and award documents are met.
The Abuse in Later Life Program grantees collect information that addresses the following
grant-funded activities (different sections on the reporting form): staff, statutory purpose areas,
training, and victim services. Narrative questions at the end of these different sections enable
grantees to give more detailed qualitative information about their grant-funded activities. In
addition, grantees must answer narrative questions on the most significant areas of remaining
need with regard to improving services to victims/survivors, increasing victims/survivors safety,
and enhancing community response, what has federal funding allowed the grantee to do that
grantee could not do prior to receiving funding, additional information about the Abuse in Later
Life Program grant and/or the effectiveness of the grant and any additional information about the
data submitted.
In addition to the proposed information collection, OVW will continue to use a number of
other techniques to assess the performance of Abuse in Later Life Program grantees. These may
include OVW staff attendance at site visits, grant-funded training and technical assistance events,
staff review of products prior to dissemination, and ongoing consultation with OVW staff.
OVW will aggregate data from all grantees’ performance reports to assess the performance
of the Abuse in Later Life Program as a whole and to respond to Congressional, Department of
Justice, and other inquiries about how Abuse in Later Life Program funds are being used. In
addition, information collected from grantees will support the following performance measures:
1 Under a cooperative agreement between OVW and the University of Southern Maine’s
Muskie School of Public Service, data collected from OVW grantees on all of OVW’s
performance report forms is transmitted to the Muskie School for analysis. For the analysis of the
data, standard descriptive statistics (frequency, sum, percentage, mean, etc.) are used to describe
the characteristics of the grantees and report basic findings. All analyses are conducted in SPSS
13.0.
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Number of victims receiving requested services;
Number of policies developed /revised;
Number of communities with improved CCR (community coordinated responses);
Number of grant funded training events ;and
Number of professionals trained to respond to domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault
and stalking;
Information collected from Abuse in Later Life Program grantees will enable OVW to respond to
statutory requirements to report on the effectiveness of grant-funded activities. OVW has
submitted the 2024 Measuring Effectiveness Report to Congress, which includes information
about how funds were expended and an assessment of the effectiveness of funded programs. This
report is based on data submitted by grantees reflecting Abuse in Later Life Program awards
made and the Abuse in Later Life Program‐funded activities engaged in from July to December
2024 and from January to June 2022.
The data that OVW collects on the semiannual performance reporting forms is currently not
used in connection with an evaluation of the Abuse in Later Life Program. OVW is currently
exploring the development of a multi-layered evaluation agenda for its grant programs.
It is important that OVW collect this information from Abuse in Later Life Program grantees
on a semiannual basis so that OVW can ensure that they are performing within the statutory
limitations of the program in a timely manner. Because OVW is not able to perform site visits
with every Abuse in Later Life Program grantee, the review of performance reports every six
months enables OVW to monitor grantees in timely manner.
3.

Use of Information Technology

The collection of information will involve the use of automated, electronic, mechanical or
other technological collection techniques or other forms of information technology. OVW
grantees are required to submit semiannual performance reports through the Just Grants System.
4.

Duplication of Information Request

There is no other mechanism by which OVW collects information about grant funded
activities including number of victims served, victims seeking services who could not be served,
or persons trained.
5.

Impact on Small Entities

There is no impact on small entities as the collection of this type of information is
routinely kept by most grantees receiving funds under the Abuse in Later Life Program.
6.

Consequences to Federal Programs or Policy
By statute, Congress has mandated that Abuse in Later Life Program grantees report to
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the Attorney General on the effectiveness of their activities funded under VAWA. If OVW was
not able to collect the information necessary to complete these reports on behalf of the Attorney
General, not only would it be failing to meet a statutorily required reporting mandate, but also
the existence of this important and necessary grant program could be jeopardized.
7.

Special Circumstances

There are no special circumstances as identified in the specific instructions for a
supporting statement for Paperwork Reduction Act Submissions.
8.

Federal Register Publication

OVW has consulted with persons outside the agency who have advised that the data
proposed to be collected is available, the semiannual collection of such data is not burdensome,
the form is clear, and that the information is routinely kept by most grantees receiving funds
under the Abuse in Later Life Program. OVW has solicited public comment on this form in
accordance with the requirements of the Paperwork Reduction Act. A 60 day notice was
published in the Federal Register on December 2, 2024, (Federal Register, Volume 89, page
95242) and a 30-day was notice was published in the Federal Register on
, 2025 (Federal
Register, Volume , page ). OVW did not receive any public comments.
9.

Payment or Gift to Respondents
There will no payment or gift to respondents.

10.

Confidentiality

Although this information is needed for a public report to Congress, it will not involve
any personal information about victims that could identify them as specific individuals.
However, anecdotal, non-identifying information about the effectiveness of individual programs
may be included in the report. There is no assurance to confidentiality.
11.

Specific Questions

The semiannual performance report will not contain any questions of a personal, sensitive
nature such as sexual behavior and attitudes, religious beliefs, and other matters that are
commonly considered private.
12.

Hour Burden of the Collection of Information

This semiannual performance report is not overly burdensome. The data collection tool
will be completed by approximately 15 Abuse in Later Life Program grantees twice a year.
There will be 30 semiannual responses, and it is estimated that it will take grantees no more than
1 hour to complete the performance report form. Thus, the annual reporting and recordkeeping
hour burden is 30 hours. Abuse in Later Program grantees are informed about the reporting
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requirements during the grant solicitation process and during the grant award process.
OVW is seeking basic information that is routinely kept by the grantees in the normal
course of their operations. Thus, the requirement that grantees complete this performance report
within a period of less than 30 days after receipt of it is not overly burdensome. OVW estimates
that it will take approximately 1 hour for a grantee to complete the form. OVW developed this
estimate based on the fact that information of this nature is already kept by grantees receiving
funds under the Abuse in Later Life Program and that the grantees have been apprized of these
reporting requirements during the solicitation process and reminded throughout the grant award
process. The performance report is divided into sections that pertain to the different types of
activities that grantees may engage in, i.e. training, product development, victim services.
Grantees will only have to complete the sections of the form that relate to their specific grantfunded activities.
13.

Cost Burden of the Collection of Information

OVW does not believe that there is any semiannual cost burden on respondents or
recordkeepers resulting from the collection of this information.
14.

Annualized Costs to the Federal Government

The annualized costs to the Federal Government resulting from the OVW staff review of
the performance reports submitted by grantees are estimated to be $2016.
15.

Program Changes or Adjustments

There are no program changes or adjustments for the estimates identified in Section 13
and in Section 14. This is an information collection that is necessary for OVW and its Abuse in
Later Life Program grantees to comply with the statutory reporting requirements and the
Government Performance and Results Act of 1993 (Pub. L. 103-62).
16.

Published Results of Information Collections

There will be no complex analytical techniques used in connection with the publication
of information collected under the request. Information will be gathered twice a year at the end
of the reporting periods. OVW is statutorily required to submit a report on the effectiveness of
all grant-funded activities on a biennial basis.
17.

Display of the Expiration Date of OMB Approval

OVW will display the Expiration Date of OMB Approval in the upper right-hand corner
of the Performance Report.
18.

Exception to the Certification Statement
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OVW is not seeking any exception to the certification statement identified in Item 19,
Certification for Paperwork Reduction Act Submissions, of OMB Form 83-I.

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