The tribal sexual assault services program (TSASP), is authorized by 34 U.S.C. 12511(E)

The Department of Justice Office on Violence Against Women awarded the Tonkawa Tribe of Oklahoma $457,356 under the Tribal Sexual Assault Services Program (CFDA 16.024) on January 1, 2026.

The Tonkawa Tribe Victim Services Program, an agency of the tribal government, will maintain a sexual assault hotline, provide advocacy and accompaniment services (including to court proceedings and medical facilities), deliver ongoing crisis intervention, provide emergency shelter services and counseling, and furnish direct client support. Performance runs through December 31, 2028, at Tonkawa, Oklahoma.

The award is a new Project Grant. TSASP supports projects to create, maintain, and expand sustainable sexual assault services provided by tribes, tribal organizations, and nonprofit tribal organizations within Indian Country and Alaska Native Villages. The broader Sexual Assault Services Program (SASP) funds intervention, advocacy, accompaniment, support services, and related assistance for adult, youth, and child victims of sexual assault, non-offending family and household members of victims, and those collaterally affected by sexual assault.

IT is one of five grant programs funded within the sexual assault services program (SASP). SASP was created by the violence against women and department of justice reauthorization act of 2005 (vawa 2005) and is the first federal funding stream dedicated solely to the provision of direct intervention and related assistance for victims of sexual assault. Overall, the purpose of SASP is to provide intervention, advocacy, accompaniment (e.g., accompanying victims to court, medical facilities, police departments), support services, and related assistance for adult, youth, and child victims of sexual assault, non-offending family and household members of victims, and those collaterally affected by the sexual assault. TSASP supports projects to create, maintain, and expand sustainable sexual assault services provided by tribes, tribal organizations, and nonprofit tribal organizations within indian country and alaska native villages. Tonkawa tribe of oklahoma is a federally recognized tribe located in north-central oklahoma in KAY county. The tonkawa tribe victim services program, an agency of the tonkawa tribe tribal government, works to address violence against american indian women by providing comprehensive victim services to victims of sexual assault, SEX trafficking, domestic violence, dating violence, and stalking. With this funding, the tonkawa tribe victim services program will maintain a sexual assault hotline, provide advocacy and accompaniment through services, provide on-going crisis intervention, provide emergency shelter services and counseling, and direct client support. This is a new award.