The tribal sexual assault services program (tsasp) is authorized by 34 U.S.C. 12511(e).itis one of five grant programs funded within the sexual assault services program (sasp)

The Department of Justice Office on Violence Against Women awarded The Northeast Native Network Of Kinship And Healing Inc. $538,500 under the Tribal Sexual Assault Services Program (CFDA 16.024) on January 1, 2026, to continue providing emergency shelter services and housing for victims of sexual assault and sex trafficking within the Aquinnah Wampanoag Tribal Community.

Kinship Heals, a tribal nonprofit serving Martha's Vineyard, will deliver the funded services through December 31, 2028. The Tribal Sexual Assault Services Program supports projects that create, maintain, and expand sustainable sexual assault services provided by tribes, tribal organizations, and nonprofit tribal organizations in Indian Country and Alaska Native villages. The program's broader purpose encompasses intervention, advocacy, accompaniment such as accompanying victims to court and medical facilities, support services, and related assistance for adult, youth, and child victims of sexual assault, as well as non-offending family members and those collaterally affected.

Performance occurs in Vineyard Haven and Tisbury, Massachusetts. This is a new award; Kinship Heals previously received a $538,500 TSASP grant from October 2022 through March 2026.

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 relatedassistancefor 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. The northeast native network of kinship and healing INC. (kinship heals) kinship heals is a tribal non-profit that provides sexual assault and domestic violence victim advocacy services to the aquinnah wampanoag tribal community located on the island of marthas vineyard. With this award kinship heals will continue to provide emergency shelter services and housing for victims of sexual assault and SEX trafficking. This is a new award.