Block Grant 2020AWBX0008

The Cherokee Nation received a $600,000 Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs, Office of Sex Offender Sentencing, Monitoring, Apprehending, Registering, and Tracking (SMART Office) under the Support for Adam Walsh Act Implementation Grant Program (CFDA 16.750). The grant funds will be used to hire personnel to travel and complete sex offender registrations within the tribe's 4.5 million acre reservation, which encompasses over 500,000 citizens...

The Cherokee Nation was awarded a $400,000 Project Grant from the U.S. Department of Justice's Office of Justice Programs under the Support for Adam Walsh Act Implementation Grant Program (CFDA 16.750). The grant funds will be used to enhance community awareness and maintain jurisdictional implementation of the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act (SORNA) within the Cherokee Nation's reservation in Oklahoma. Key activities include providing training and technical assistance to local...

The Cherokee Nation received a $935,301 project grant award from the Department of Justice's Community Oriented Policing Services program on September 1, 2015 to provide equipment and training through August 31, 2018. Through this Public Safety Partnership and Community Policing Grants award, the Cherokee Nation will deliver resources to support the adoption of community policing strategies and collaborative partnerships between law enforcement and the communities they serve in Tahlequah,...

The Cherokee County Board of Commissioners received a $377,657 Project Grant from the U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (CFDA 16.585 Treatment Court Discretionary Grant Program). The goal of this 4-year grant, starting on Oct 1, 2023, is to enhance the Cherokee County Juvenile Drug Treatment Court program to better serve youth ages 14-17 with non-violent drug charges. Key project activities include identifying low- to moderate-risk youth,...

The Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe was awarded a $400,000 project grant from the Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs Sex Offender Sentencing, Assistance and Tracking program. The goal of this three-year grant is to assist the Tribe with developing and enhancing programs to implement requirements of the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act from October 1, 2021 to September 30, 2024. Specifically, funding will support the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe's efforts to develop and...

The Cherokee Nation was awarded a $336,666 project grant from the Department of Justice's Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) Office Public Safety Partnership and Community Policing Grants program. The TRIBAL RESOURCES GRANT HIRING PROGRAM (TRGP-HIRE) will support the Cherokee Nation in hiring new law enforcement officers from November 1, 2021 to October 31, 2026. The COPS Office program aims to enhance public safety through community policing strategies and collaborative partnerships...

The Cherokee County Board of Commissioners was awarded a $363,847 Project Grant from the U.S. Department of Justice's Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention under the Comprehensive Opioid, Stimulant, and other Substances Use Program (CFDA 16.838). The funding will be used to establish a Family Treatment Court (FTC) in Cherokee County, Georgia to improve the lives of families affected by parental substance abuse. The FTC will provide trauma-informed, evidence-based substance...

The Cherokee Nation was awarded a $900,000 Project Grant from the U.S. Department of Justice's Bureau of Justice Assistance (CFDA 16.596 Tribal Justice Assistance Program) to strengthen the tribe's justice system capacity. The funding will support hiring an Adult Justice Services Probation Intake Officer and a Juvenile Justice Prevention Specialist, as well as providing training. This is intended to address the tribe's increased caseload involving crimes such as child abuse, domestic violence,...

The Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe was awarded a $250,000 Project Grant under the Support for Adam Walsh Act Implementation Grant Program (CFDA 16.750) from the U.S. Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs, Office of Sex Offender Sentencing, Monitoring, Apprehending, Registering, and Tracking (SMART Office). The funding will be used to support the revision and development of Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act (SORNA) policies and procedures, draft an AMBER Alert program...

The Cherokee Nation received a $250,000 project grant award from the Department of Justice Office on Violence Against Women under the Special Domestic Violence Criminal Jurisdiction Implementation program (CFDA 16.025). The grant period runs from January 1, 2022 to December 31, 2022. The funding will assist the Cherokee Nation in implementing Special Tribal Criminal Jurisdiction as established under the Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act of 2013 and expanded by the Violence Against Women...