; and (2) mechanisms that promote the provision of technical assistance and support for programs to improve outcomes and maintain grant funding. (d) Research agenda Not later than 180 days after the date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall develop a research agenda that— (1) works and collaborates with the Family Violence Prevention and Services Program of the Department of Health and Human Services and the Office of Violence Against Women of the Department of Justice; and (2) focuses on survivors of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, or stalking and their families, concentrating on the housing modalities that best support them and the mechanisms that best facilitate their efforts to secure housing, while also paying attention to the critical safety concerns and the link between trauma and residential stability. 4. Increasing access to safe shelter for survivors of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, or stalking Section 427 of the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act ( 42 U.S.C. 11386a ) is amended— (1) in subsection (b)(1)— (A) in subparagraph (B)(iv)(I), by inserting , including survivors of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, or stalking and their families after subpopulations ; (B) in subparagraph (C)— (i) in clause (iii), by striking and at the end; (ii) in clause (iv), by adding and at the end; and (iii) by adding at the end the following: (v) meets the safety and trauma needs of survivors of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, or stalking and their families, including access to safe shelter; ; (C) in subparagraph (F)(ii), by striking and at the end; (D) by redesignating subparagraph (G) as subparagraph (H); and (E) by inserting after subparagraph (F) the following: (G) the extent to which the assistance to be provided within the geographic area will meet the safety and trauma needs of survivors of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, or stalking and their families, including access to safe shelter; and