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 federal Project Grant award of $450,000 was provided by the U.S. Department of Justice's Office on Violence Against Women under the Culturally and Linguistically Specific Services Program (CFDA 16.016). The grant will enable Sakhi For South Asian Survivors, Inc., a non-profit organization based in Brooklyn, New York, to implement a three-year project addressing the unique needs of South Asian and Indo-Caribbean survivors of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking living in New York City. Specific project activities will include case management, job training and employment services, educational support, and a financial literacy/economic empowerment speaker series. The grant aims to enhance traditional services to victims through the leadership of culturally specific programs and provide culturally relevant resources and services that address safety, economic, housing, and workplace needs of survivors. This funding will support Sakhi's efforts to quickly rehouse homeless individuals and families, minimize trauma, promote access to mainstream resources, and optimize self-sufficiency for the target population.

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, sakhi for south asian women will implement a project addressing the following purpose areas: purpose area 4 - 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 purpose area 7 - providing culturally specific resources and services that address the safety, economic, housing, and workplace needs of victims, including emergency assistance, for survivors of the south asian and indo-caribbean diaspora living in new york city. The project will address priority area 3: expanding economic justice. Specific activities will include: 1) case management; 2) job training and employment services; 3) educational support; and 4) financial literacy/economic empowerment speaker series.