The Minnesota Center Against Violence & Abuse (MINCAVA) in the School of Social Work has received a new two-year technical assistance grant of $392,978.25 from the U.S. Department of Justice's Office on Violence Against Women. Co-principal investigators Professor Jeffrey Edleson and Jennifer Witt will lead the project, which provides online information to technical assistance providers and grantees working on violence against women issues. The new grant extends this project, started in 1997, to April 2009 with grants now totalling $3,138,908 for the length of the project.