For help with how to answer
questions on the reporting forms, call 1-800-922-VAWA or email at vawamei@usm.maine.edu
For help with downloading and submitting
reporting forms online on the GMS system, call the GMS Hotline at 1-888-549-9901.
Click
here to go to the GMS System
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This database has been designed to assist Office on Violence Against Women grantees to collect data for the Semi-Annual Progress Reporting forms designed by the VAWA Measuring Effectiveness Initiative at the Muskie School of Public Service. The database application is specifically designed to collect the data for this progress reporting form. It is NOT MANDATORY to use this database to collect and report the data for the Semi-Annual Progress Reporting form, and you will not be able to transfer data from the database to the GMS reporting system. As such, any client identifying or any other confidential information will remain with the database and will not be shared with either OVW or the Muskie School. Any grantee using a network to house the database or sharing the database with other project partners must independently ensure client confidentiality. (For more information about client confidentiality, click here on the Data Security Checklist prepared by the National Network to End Domestic Violence.) This is a freeware software application, i.e. you can alter, modify, or adapt it to new contexts or new uses as per the terms in the Freeware License Agreement.
To run the database application you will require MS Access 2000 or higher on your computer.
This application collects information on specific activities and creates a summary report for the data entered. Information is collected in the application using user-friendly screens called forms and output is shown using printable reports.
This database application was created by Sameer Mahimkar, Data Manager and Research Analyst in consultation with Dr. Lacey Sloan, Research Associate at the Muskie School. Editorial assistance for the Instruction Manual was provided by Dr. Sun Young Yoon, Research Associate and J.B. Whipple, Research Analyst. The database application was supported by Grant No. 2000-WT-VX-K002 awarded by the Office on Violence Against Women, U.S. Department of Justice. Points of view in this database application are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official position or policies of the U.S. Department of Justice or of other staff members, officers, trustees, advisory groups, or funders of the Edmund S. Muskie School of Public Service.
The application collects the data and provides reports on the following
questions of the reporting form:
Training – (Q10, Q11, Q12)
Products and Codes – (Q15)
Victim Services – (Q20, Q21, Q22, Q23, Q24, Q25, Q26)
Tribal Law Enforcement – (Q27, Q28)
Tribal Prosecution – (Q29,Q30, Q31, Q32)
Tribal Courts – (Q33, Q34, Q35, Q36, Q37)
Tribal Probation – (Q38, Q39, Q40)
By downloading, using, copying, or distributing the database application
and instructions, you indicate your acceptance of the Muskie School of
Public Service Freeware License
Agreement.
NOTE: Before proceeding further you should print a copy of this page.
To download the application, click on the following "EXE" files
and press the "SAVE" button on the "File
Download" window, to save these files on your computer. Please read
the Freeware License Agreement
before downloading the following files.
Application
Installation Manual and Instruction Manual - STOPVAIWmanual.exe
Application
file - STOPVAIWdb1.0.exe
The above files are “self-expanding” compressed file. This
simply means that the file will expand into a larger file or files.
To run the application you will require MS Access 2000 or higher on your computer.
After downloading the above 2 files on your computer:
1. Locate the file STOPVAIWmanual.exe on your computer and double-click
to open this file. You will see the box shown in the following figure.
2. Click “Unzip”. This will automatically save two files (STOPVAIWInstallationInstruction.pdf
and STOPVAIWManual.pdf) into the “C:\STOPVAIWdb1.0” directory
of your hard drive.
3. A Message box will indicate that two files have been successfully unzipped. Click “OK”.
4. Click “Close” in the other window.
5. Open the file "STOPVAIWInstallationInstruction.pdf" file from the folder “C:\STOPVAIWdb1.0” and install the software as per the instructions in the file.
