Audit of the Office on Violence Against Women Safe Havens Grant Awarded to the Michigan Department of Human Services, Lansing, Michigan.

摘要

The U.S. Department of Justice, Office of the Inspector General, Audit Division, has completed an audit of an Office on Violence Against Women grant awarded to the Michigan Department of Human Services (Michigan DHS). Michigan DHS was awarded $649,872 under grant number 2009-CW-AX-K003 in October 2009 to fund supervised child visitation and exchange programs. In collaboration with three subgrantees, Michigan DHS used grant funding to seek to increase options for supervised visitation and safe exchange; reduce acts of violence and intimidation; and contribute to the well-being of victims of domestic violence and their children in the counties of Kent, Saginaw, and Washtenaw, Michigan. The objective of our audit was to review performance in the following areas: (1) internal control environment; (2) drawdowns; (3) grant expenditures, including personnel costs; (4) budget management and control; (5) matching costs; (6) accountable property; (7) program income; (8) federal financial and progress reports; (9) grant award requirements; (10) program performance and accomplishments; and (11) monitoring of subgrantees and contractors. We determined that matching costs, accountable property, indirect costs, program income, and monitoring of contractors were not applicable to this grant.