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 by encouraging collaboration among victim service providers, law enforcement agencies, prosecutors, courts, other criminal justice service providers, human and community service providers, educational institutions, and health care providers; 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. Through this new OVW rural program project, clackamas womens services, in partnership with safety compass, will implement the increasing the safety and well-being of survivors in rural clackamas county through trauma-informed and culturally specific services, prevention strategies and improving the sexual assault response project. This victim service project addresses the following purpose areas: 1, 2, and 3 for clackamas, polk, and marion counties in oregon. Specific activities will include: 1) coordinating outreach in rural areas and access to sexual assault services, expanding resources and services to latinx survivors in the agricultural industry; 2) placing a CO-located confidential youth advocate in a rural school; 3) supporting a confidential advocate to serve survivors in rural polk and marion counties; 4) supporting a CO-located advocate based in the sandy health center in clackamas; and 5) coordinating violence prevention sessions in schools. The timing for performance of this award is 36 months.