The Alaska Native Women's Resource Center (ANWRC) was awarded a $700,000 Project Grant under the U.S. Department of Justice's Office on Violence Against Women (OVW) Rural Domestic Violence, Dating Violence, Sexual Assault, and Stalking Assistance Program (CFDA 16.589). This 36-month grant will fund the "Improving Sexual Assault Services Awareness and Access in Rural Alaska through the Alaska Native Village Culturally Based Sexual Assault Training Project." The project aims to: 1)...
This Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Justice's Office on Violence Against Women (CFDA 16.024 Tribal Sexual Assault Services Program) provides $675,000 over a 3-year period to the Stronghearts Native Helpline, Inc. to create, maintain, and expand sustainable sexual assault services for Native American and Alaska Native communities. The funding supports the Stronghearts Native Helpline, a culturally-centered helpline that offers free, confidential, and trauma-informed crisis...
This $700,000 federal Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Justice's Office on Violence Against Women under the Rural Domestic Violence, Dating Violence, Sexual Assault, and Stalking Assistance Program (CFDA 16.589) will fund the Rural Forensic Services Program project delivered by Norton Sound Health Corporation (NSHC) in partnership with Kawerak Child Advocacy Center. The project aims to: 1) increase access to forensically trained providers in the emergency department and child...
The U.S. Department of Justice Office on Violence Against Women awarded a $450,000 Project Grant to Native Community Development, Inc. under the Culturally and Linguistically Specific Services Program (CFDA 16.016). The funding supports implementing strategies to enhance culturally specific services, increase community capacity for culturally relevant resources and support, and enhance traditional services for Native American and other underserved victims of domestic violence, dating violence,...
This $950,000 Project Grant awarded by the U.S. Department of Justice's Office on Violence Against Women (CFDA 16.589 - Rural Domestic Violence, Dating Violence, Sexual Assault, and Stalking Assistance Program) to the Women's Resource Center of Northern Michigan will fund a 36-month initiative to expand and enhance services for survivors and prevention of sexual assault across five rural counties in Michigan. Key activities include: 1) finalizing a community collaborative response protocol among...
This $700,000 Rural Domestic Violence, Dating Violence, Sexual Assault, and Stalking Assistance Program (CFDA 16.589) award from the U.S. Department of Justice's Office on Violence Against Women will allow Sexual Assault Services of Northwest New Mexico (SASNWNM) to establish a community-based Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner (SANE) program in McKinley County, New Mexico. The 36-month project will fund the hiring of a program coordinator, lead nurse, and 3-4 on-call SANE nurses to provide...
The Lummi Tribe of Lummi Reservation will use a $525,000 Tribal Sexual Assault Services Program grant from the Department of Justice's Office on Violence Against Women to support sexual assault intervention and advocacy services through September 2025. Authorized under the Violence Against Women Act and CFDA 16.024, the Tribal Sexual Assault Services Program aims to aid victims of sexual assault in Indian tribal lands through programs that provide intervention, advocacy, accompaniment, and...
This $700,000 Rural Domestic Violence, Dating Violence, Sexual Assault, and Stalking Assistance Program grant from the U.S. Department of Justice's Office on Violence Against Women (CFDA 16.589) will enable the Family Violence Project, in partnership with the Sexual Assault Crisis & Support Center, to implement the Strength in Unity program. Key project activities include: serving 35 child victims of sexual abuse, providing 12 educational classes for parents who have experienced...
The U.S. Department of Justice Office on Violence Against Women awarded the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians a $700,000 Project Grant under the Violence Against Women Discretionary Grants for Indian Tribal Governments program (CFDA 16.587). This 24-month continuation grant will enable the tribe's Hearts of Hope Domestic Violence/Sexual Assault Program to sustain and enhance services addressing violence against Native women. Key services include operating the Hearts of Hope Shelter,...
The Northeast Native Network of Kinship and Healing Incorporated will receive $525,000 under a three-year Tribal Sexual Assault Services Program project grant from the Department of Justice's Office on Violence Against Women. The Tribal Sexual Assault Services Program (CFDA 16.024) aims to support sustainable sexual assault services provided by tribes, tribal organizations, and nonprofit tribal organizations within Indian Country and Alaska Native villages. Specifically, the Northeast Native...
This $700,000 Project Grant award under the U.S. Department of Justice's (DOJ) Office on Violence Against Women (OVW) Rural Domestic Violence, Dating Violence, Sexual Assault, and Stalking Assistance Program (CFDA 16.589) will fund the "Enlightening Native Daughters Sexual Assault (END-SA)" project led by Lumbee Land Development, Inc. in partnership with several local organizations. The project aims to: 1) provide education and outreach on sexual assault to 20,000 tribal members; 2) conduct 10 awareness events; 3) train 20 staff annually on sexual assault and trauma; 4) develop culturally-specific interventions including certifying 7 SANE nurses and 2 community health workers; 5) enhance sexual assault education for nurses and nursing students; and 6) increase direct services for survivors and their families. This 3-year project targets the underserved Lumbee Tribe population in Robeson County, North Carolina, and aligns with the OVW program's priorities of advancing equity for tribal communities and preventing sexual assault.