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

The Office on Violence Against Women awarded the Coeur D'alene Tribe $400,000 on January 1, 2026, under the Tribal Sexual Assault Services Program (CFDA 16.024) to expand sexual assault intervention services. The Stop Violence Program, an operational unit of the Coeur D'alene Tribal Government, will deliver crisis intervention, accompaniment, advocacy, safety planning, shelter, transportation, and shelter assistance to victims of sexual assault and sex trafficking. The award covers the period January 1, 2026, through December 31, 2028, with performance at Plummer, Idaho. The Stop Violence Program has partnered with its local Women's Advisory Committee and Tribal Police to implement the project. This is a new award.

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. Coeur dalene nation is a federally recognized tribe located in rural northern idaho, 150 miles south of the canadian border. The stop violence program, a program of the coeur dalene tribal government, is dedicated to breaking the cycle of domestic violence, sexual assault, dating violence, and stalking through awareness, intervention and developing partnerships within the community and other programs. With this funding, the stop violence program will improve intervention services to victims of sexual assault and SEX trafficking including crisis intervention, accompaniment, advocacy, safety planning, shelter, transportation, shelter assistance. The stop violence program has partnered with their local womens advisory committee and tribal police to implement the project. This is a new award.