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 Project Grant award of $450,000 from the U.S. Department of Justice's Office on Violence Against Women, under the Culturally and Linguistically Specific Services Program (CFDA 16.016), will enable Asian Task Force Against Domestic Violence Inc. (ATASK) to implement a project addressing economic justice for pan-Asian communities across Massachusetts with a focus on the Eastern region. The key activities funded under this three-year award, which runs from October 1, 2024 to September 30, 2027, include: 1) providing culturally specific career counseling and coaching, 2) delivering employment and financial literacy webinars, and 3) creating a video series on workers' rights and survivor economic independence journeys. This award builds on ATASK's demonstrated expertise in delivering culturally and linguistically relevant support services to Asian, limited English proficient, low-income, immigrant, refugee, and asylee populations experiencing domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking.

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, asian task force against domestic violencewill implement a project addressing the following purpose area: 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 pan-asian communities across massachusetts with a focus on the eastern region the project will address priority area 3: expanding economic justice. Specific activities will include: 1) culturally specific career counseling and coaching, 2) employment and financial literacy webinars, and 3) video series on workers rights and survivor economic independence journeys.