$15,500 to revitalize the Victim Offender Dialogue program, which will be conducted with the goals of healing, accountability, restitution, and improving the justice system.

$35,000 to Ohio Legal Help for the Legal Information and Action Plans for Mental Health project which will develop new legal content to educate and support Ohioans with mental health concerns as they navigate the mental health system. Serving all 88 counties.

$35,000 to create and distribute a policy brief focused on the mental health and well-being of system-involved children and youth, focused on children involved in the juvenile justice system and including impacts of other systems, such as children services and behavioral health. The brief will highlight the mental health conditions and treatment access challenges experienced by system-involved youth, as well as potential changes to law and other policies that could lead to improved health and well-being for these youth.

$66,111 to conduct outreach and training to the courts, prosecutors, victim advocates, and homicide co-victim support groups to educate them about the legal rights of co-victims and the resources available to them. This project continues a multi-year endeavor that OVWA has undertaken to improve the provision of services and access to justice for those who have lost a loved one to homicide.

$25,000 to Equality Ohio Education Fund to update and disseminate the Ohio Trans Know Your Rights Guide. This project will revise the guide to reflect current challenges and distribute it widely, empowering transgender individuals and service providers with crucial information. Serving counties statewide.

$30,000 to YWCA Columbus for their Racial Equity 101: Train the Facilitator pilot project which will teach high school girls in the Bright Futures empowerment program to facilitate racial literacy and anti racism trainings.

$15,000 to The International Welcome Center for the Pursuit of Happiness - Educational Sessions on Navigating the Path to Citizenship initiative. This project will fund virtual seminars and translation services.

$30,000 to We Amplify Voices (WAV) to fund the Life Stories II project. This initiative provides law students, attorneys, judges, and public defenders an intimate look at the lives of inmates sentenced to life in prison, promoting trauma-informed practices. WAV will create educational modules based on interviews with inmates, available for free on digital platforms. Serving Franklin, Marion, and Union counties.

$19,550 for The Summits for Racial Justice project to create targeted events to address racial and systemic discrimination against BIPOC workers in the workplace.

$24,000 for the Portage County Juvenile Court leaders to implement a pre-adjudicatory child protection mediation program, designed to mediate both adjudication (complaint) and disposition (case plan). The program focuses on improving outcomes for families and reducing time to permanency for children. The goal of this program is to move from an adversarial model to a collaborative model on appropriate abuse, neglect, and dependency cases.