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 U.S. Department of Justice's Office on Violence Against Women awarded a $400,000 Culturally and Linguistically Specific Services Program (CFDA 16.016) grant to Carter's Compassionate Transitional & Supportive Housing (DBA Hagar's House) to provide culturally specific services to Black/African American victims of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking in the Jackson, Mississippi metropolitan area. The 3-year project will implement the following activities: 1) culturally specific trainings and trauma treatment; 2) case management; 3) life skills classes; 4) counseling; 5) financial counseling; and 6) holistic healing activities such as yoga and line dancing. The project aims to enhance traditional services and provide culturally relevant resources and services that address the safety, economic, housing, and workplace needs of 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 new culturally specific services program project, carters compassionate transitional supportive housing 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 of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, or stalking, including emergency assistance for black/african american victims and survivors in the jackson, mississippi metropolitan area. Specific activities will include: 1) culturally specific trainings and trauma treatment; 2) case management; 3) life skills classes; 4) counseling; 5) financial counseling; and 6) holistic healing activities such as yoga and line dancing.