This grant program supports the development and operation of nonprofit, nongovernmental tribal domestic violence and sexual assault coalitions

The Department of Justice Office on Violence Against Women awarded Southcentral Foundation $387,737 on October 1, 2025, under the Tribal Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault Coalitions Grant Program (CFDA 16.557), a formula grant supporting tribal coalition activities addressing domestic violence and sexual assault against Alaska Native and American Indian women.

Southcentral Foundation, an Alaska Native-owned, tribally controlled nonprofit healthcare organization headquartered in Anchorage, will conduct tribal coalition work to increase awareness of domestic violence and sexual assault; enhance response to violence at federal, state, and tribal levels; identify and provide technical assistance to coalition members and tribal communities to enhance access to essential services for victimized women, including those affected by sex trafficking; and assist tribes in developing and promoting legislation and policies addressing domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, sex trafficking, and stalking. Where sexual assault service funding is deployed, the recipient may work with local sexual assault programs and service providers, judicial and law enforcement agencies, courts and child protective services agencies, and federal, state, and local officials to develop appropriate responses; design and conduct public education campaigns; and plan and monitor grant distribution.

The award obligates $387,737 with a period of performance from October 1, 2025, through September 30, 2026. Place of performance is Anchorage, Alaska 99508.

Recognized tribal coalitions may use funding from the tribal coalitions program to: 1) increase awareness of domestic violence and sexual assault against indian or native hawaiian women; 2) enhance the response to violence against indian or native hawaiian women at the federal, state, and tribal levels; 3) identify and provide technical assistance to coalition membership and tribal communities or native hawaiian communities to enhance access to essential services to indian or native hawaiian women victimized by domestic and sexual violence, including SEX trafficking; and 4) assist indian tribes or native hawaiian communities in developing and promoting state, local, and tribal legislation and policies that enhance best practices for responding to violent crimes against indian or native hawaiian women, including the crimes of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, SEX trafficking, and stalking. Tribal coalitions addressing sexual assault may use funds set aside through the sexual assault service program funding stream for one or more of the following purposes: a) working with local sexual assault programs and other providers of direct services to encourage appropriate responses to sexual assault within the state or territory. B) working with judicial or law enforcement agencies to encourage appropriate responses to sexual assault cases. C) working with courts, child protective services agencies, and childrens advocates to develop appropriate responses to child custody and visitation issues when sexual assault has been determined to be a factor. D) designing and conducting public education campaigns. E) planning and monitoring the distribution of grants and grant funds to their state or territory. F) collaborating with and informing federal, state, or local public officials and agencies to develop and implement policies to reduce or eliminate sexual assault. The southcentral foundation was incorporated in 1982 under the tribal authority of the cook inlet region, INC. (CIRI), southcentral foundation is the largest of the CIRI nonprofits. Scfs vision is a native community that enjoys physical, mental, emotional and spiritual wellness; its mission is to work together with the native community to achieve wellness through health and related services. The family wellness warrior (FWW) department will manage the proposed project. The southcentral foundationis an alaska native-owned, nonprofit health care organization serving over 70,000 an/AI people living in anchorage, matanuska-susitna borough, and nearby villages in the anchorage service unit (ASU) which stretches 107,400 square miles across southcentral alaska. With this initial funding FWW will: 1) identify and provide technical assistance to tribal and member programs, and 2) enhance public education/prevent efforts and conduct awareness campaigns on domestic violence and sexual assault.