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

The Department of Justice's Office on Violence Against Women awarded a $400,000 Project Grant under the Culturally and Linguistically Specific Services Program (CFDA 16.016) to the Violence Intervention Program, Inc., a non-profit organization based in New York City. This three-year grant, effective from October 1, 2024 to September 30, 2027, will enable the Violence Intervention Program to implement multiple purpose areas, including:

1. Enhancing traditional services to victims of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking through the leadership of culturally specific programs offering services to these populations.
2. Working in cooperation with the community to develop education and prevention strategies highlighting culturally specific issues and resources regarding victims.
3. Providing culturally specific resources and services that address the safety, economic, housing, and workplace needs of victims, including emergency assistance for Latinx survivors in the Bronx, Queens, and Upper Manhattan. This will involve improving survivor personal financial capacity, providing labor rights training, offering workforce development, and delivering case management services for financial independence.

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, the violence intervention program will implement multiple purpose areas including: 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; purpose area 5 - working in cooperation with the community to develop education and prevention strategies highlighting culturally specific issues and resources regarding victims of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking; purpose area 7 - providing culturally specific resources and services that address the safety, economic, housing, and workplace needs of victims of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, or stalking, including emergency assistance for latinx survivors in the bronx, queens (corona) and upper manhattan. Specific activities will include: 1) improving survivor personal financial capacity; 2) labor rights training; 3) workforce development and 4) case management services for financial independence.