The healing and response teams special initiative was created in response to recommendations made by the not invisible act commission (niac)

This special initiative supports the creation, training, and sustainability of healing and response teams (HRT), using a tribal-based model of care, to respond to missing or murdered indigenous people (mmip) cases related to domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, stalking, and SEX trafficking. The minnesota indian womens sexual assault coalition (miwsac) is a statewide tribal coalition and national tribal technical assistance provider located in ST. Paul, minnesota. Miwsac provides culturally based training, technical assistance, strategies, resources, and tools dedicated to engaging and supporting survivors of sexual violence, advocates, service providers, and community members. With this award, miwsac will conduct a nationwide assessment and analysis of response models in mmip cases involving domestic violence, sexual assault, dating violence, stalking, and SEX trafficking using tribal-based models of care; identify and make subawards to three pilot sites; provide technical assistance and site visits to the three pilot sites; convene a national listening session on healing and response teams; complete a report that outlines guidelines, principles, and recommendations for hrts; develop an HRT toolkit and instruction manual to be used by a range of audiences including tribally-led community-based organizations, indian tribes, and urban indian organizations; and deliver one national, in-person project implementation workshop for tribes, urban indian organizations, and tribally-led community based organizations. The timing for performance of this award is 36 months.