The grants to enhance culturally specific services for victims of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking program is authorized by 34 U.S.C. 20124

Under the Department of Justice's Office on Violence Against Women's Culturally and Linguistically Specific Services Program (CFDA 16.016), Wise Women Gathering Place, Inc. was awarded a $575,000 Project Grant to implement the "Native Healing Ways Culturally Specific Services Project". This 3-year grant supports the organization's provision of culturally tailored services for American Indian victims of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking in the Oneida National Reservation and Greater Green Bay, Wisconsin metropolitan area. Key services include 24-hour crisis response, personal advocacy, support groups, community outreach, and prevention education designed using Native American cultural healing approaches. The grant funding also enables Wise Women Gathering Place, Inc. to address priority areas such as strengthening efforts to prevent and end sexual assault within these communities.

This program supports the maintenance and replication of existing successful community-based programs providing culturally specific services to victims of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking, as well as the development of innovative culturally specific strategies to enhance access to services and resources for victims who face obstacles to using more traditional programs. Culturally specific services means community-based services that include culturally relevant and linguistically specific services and resources to culturally specific communities which are statutorily defined as american indians (including alaska natives, eskimos, and aleuts); asian americans; native hawaiians and other pacific islanders; blacks; and hispanics. Projects must address at least one of the programs statutory purpose areas. Through this continuation culturally specific services program project, wise women gathering place incorporated will implement a project addressing the following purpose areas: providing culturally specific programs for children exposed to domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking; and providing culturally specific resources and services that address the safety, economic, housing, and workplace needs of victims of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, or stalking, including emergency assistance. The project will also address the following priority area: priority area 2 - strengthening efforts to prevent and end sexual assault. The native healing ways culturally specific services project will serve american indians (including alaska natives, eskimos, and aleuts), children, and families victimized by domestic violence in the onieda national reservation located in both brown and outagamie, wisconsin counties and the greater green BAY, wisconsin metropolitan areas. Specific activities will include: a 24 hour crisis response, personal advocacy, systems advocacy, information and referrals for community resources, support groups (womens group, sexual assault support group, mens group, white bison mending broken hearts, white bison purpose of life youth program, wise leaders, middle school wise youth, nurturing identity through advocacy, safety, and healing), and community outreach and prevention education. Wise women gathering place tailors its services for the native american population by providing services that are based on and designed as a native american cultural healing approach.