The rural domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking program (rural program) is authorized by 34 U.S.C. 12341

Rural program funds are used to support programs that: 1) identify, assess, and appropriately respond to child, youth, and adult victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, dating violence, and stalking in rural communities; 2) establish and expand victim services in rural communities to child, youth, and adult victims; 3) increase the safety and well-being of women and children in rural communities, by (a) dealing directly and immediately with domestic violence, sexual assault, dating violence, and stalking; and (B) creating and implementing strategies to increase awareness and prevent these crimes; and 4) develop, expand, implement, and improve the quality of sexual assault forensic medical examination or sexual assault nurse examiner programs. Grantees must use at least one of the following strategies in implementing their projects: 1) implement, expand, and establish cooperative efforts and projects among law enforcement officers, prosecutors, victim service providers, and other related parties to investigate and prosecute incidents of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking; 2) provide treatment, counseling, advocacy, legal assistance, and other long-term and short-term victim and population specific services to adult and minor victims of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking in rural communities; 3) work in cooperation with the community to develop education and prevention strategies directed toward such issues; 4) develop, enlarge, or strengthen programs addressing sexual assault; and 5) develop programs and strategies that focus on the specific needs of victims of who reside in remote rural and geographically isolated areas. With this continuation rural domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking grant award, tides of change, in partnership with tillamook county sheriffs office, tillamook county parole & probation, tillamook county district attorneys office, tillamook county district attorneys victims assistance program, tillamook county emergency communications district, manzanita police department, and tillamook city police department, will implement a victim services projectfor the county of tillamook in oregon. Specific activities will include: 1) supporting a full-timecoordinated community response coordinator/advocate and; 2) hiring ahalf-timedv/SA detective/investigatorwho will conduct follow-up investigations for all DV/SA reports; 3)hiring afull-time bilingual advocateand one .20 FTE bilingual director of services who will offer spanish-speaking victims the full range of advocacy services provided to all victims as well as culturally specific services; 4) developing andimplementingthe advocate initiated response (air) for domestic violence incidents and the sexual assault response team (SART); and 5) providing oversight to these two programs to ensure that victims who access services through law enforcement and hospital response receive survivor centered, trauma informed, and culturally specific services. The timing for performance of this award is 36 months.