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

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, casaluz will implement a project addressing the following purpose areas: strengthening criminal justice interventions, by providing training for law enforcement, prosecution, courts, probation, and correctional facilities on culturally specific responses to domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking; enhancing traditional services to victims of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking through the leadership of culturally specific programs offering services to victims of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking; and providing culturally specific programs for children exposed to domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking for latine/hispanic young adults in shelby county, memphis, tennessee. The project will also address the following priority area: priority area 1 - advancing racial equity. Specific activities will include: group process therapy, individual counseling, crisis intervention and assistance working with law enforcement and the courts. This program will help latine victims of domestic and sexual violence with limited english proficiency (LEP) to obtain services such as legal assistance, access to information and referrals, weekly support groups in spanish, bilingual counselors, guest speakers, and community education/weekly classes.