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, the wyoming coalition against domestic violence & sexual assault, in partnership with wyoming division of victim services and wyoming domestic violence and sexual assault programs, will develop a state and local level rural stalking, sexual assault, and domestic violence response program that incorporatesa racial equity and accessibility social change frameworkfor all twenty-three counties in wyoming and the wind river indian reservation (WRIR). Specific activities will include: 1) hiring a rural coordination specialist (RCS) toprovide technical assistanceand training on the development of coordinated community response teams (CCRT), best practice protocols and policies, with an emphasis oncommunity readiness and stalking, dating violence, and domesticviolence; 2) hirean equity & inclusion coordinator (EIC) to enhance and develop programming activities that are accessible to people with disabilities, people who are deaf or hard of hearing, and people with limited english proficiency; 3) RCS willcoordinate with wyoming division of victim services(DVS) and the wyoming forensic nurses association to provide trainingand expand medical forensic sexual assault programming; and 4)RCS and EIC, in collaboration with DVS will provide culturally humility-based support and technical assistance to the emerging WRIR sane programming, including engagement with eastern shoshone victim services, wind river cares, and other WRIR identified organizations. The timing for performance of this award is 36 months.