The grants to improve the criminal justice responses to domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking grant program is authorized by 34 U.S.C. 10461-10465 and implemented through…

This $499,969 Project Grant, awarded by the U.S. Department of Justice's Office on Violence Against Women under the Grants to Encourage Arrest Policies and Enforcement of Protection Orders Program (CFDA 16.590), supports the Judiciary Courts of the State of Minnesota, in partnership with Northwoods Battered Women's Shelter, to enhance the criminal justice response to domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking in Beltrami and Roseau Counties, Minnesota. Key activities include: 1) continuing implementation of domestic violence courts, 2) creating a safer environment for victims and their children through improved protective order enforcement, 3) reducing recidivism by increasing access to domestic violence intervention programming, 4) providing trauma-informed training for criminal justice partners, and 5) building culturally-relevant collaboration between tribal and non-tribal justice partners. The award period is from October 1, 2024 to September 30, 2027.

The grants to improve the criminal justice responses to domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking grant program is authorized by 34 U.S.C. 10461-10465 and implemented through regulations at 28 C.F.R. Part 90, subpart D. The program fosters victim safety and offender accountability in cases of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking by encouraging state, local, and tribal governments and courts to work collaboratively with community partners to identify problems and share ideas that will result in effectively responding to these crimes. An integral component of this program is the development, revitalization, or enhancement of a coordinated community response that brings together criminal justice agencies, victim services providers, and community-based organizations that respond to domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking. Grants to improve the criminal justice response (ICJR) project by judiciary courts of state of minnesota, in partnership with northwoods battered women's shelter, implemented in beltrami and roseau counties, minnesota addresses ICJR purpose areas 1, 3, 6, and 14. Additionally, this project addresses OVW priority area 1: advance racial equity and/or tribal sovereignty. Specific activities include: 1) continue DV court implementation in beltrami and roseau counties and increase domestic violence court and project partnerships with the 9TH judicial district; 2) create a safer environment for victims and their children by working collaboratively with victim service providers and enhancing system response to protective orders; 3) reduce recidivism by increasing access to quality domestic violence intervention programming, education, and judicial and system monitoring to IPV-qualified cases; 4) provide trauma-informed domestic violence, sexual assault, dating violence and stalking training for criminal justice partners; and 5) build a strong culturally-relevant community of support and collaboration between tribal and non-tribal justice partners.