; and (C) promote strategic partnership development and collaboration, including with health programs, early childhood programs, economic support programs, schools, child welfare programs, workforce development programs, domestic violence programs, other community-based programs, faith-based programs, and youth programs, in order to further a public health approach to addressing family violence, domestic violence, and dating violence. (2) Use of funds (A) In general The Secretary shall award grants to eligible entities for programs for the targeted populations to establish or enhance family violence, domestic violence, and dating violence intervention and prevention efforts that address distinctive culturally specific responses to family violence, domestic violence, and dating violence in underserved racial and ethnic populations and other underserved populations. (B) New programs In carrying out this section, the Secretary may award initial planning and capacity building grants to eligible entities that are establishing new programs in order to support the planning and development of culturally specific programs. (C) Competitive basis The Secretary shall ensure that grants are awarded under this section, to the extent practical, only on a competitive basis, and that a grant is awarded for a proposal only if the proposal has been recommended for such an award through a process of peer review. (D) Technical assistance Up to 5 percent of funds appropriated under section 303 and made available to carry out this section for a fiscal year shall be available for training and technical assistance to be used by the grantees to access evidence-based training and technical assistance, including from centers described in section 310, regarding the provision of effective culturally specific, community-based services for underserved racial and ethnic populations and other underserved populations. (c) Eligible entities To be eligible for a grant under this section, an entity shall be a private nonprofit, nongovernmental