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 Office on Violence Against Women awarded Cook Inlet Tribal Council, Inc. $398,585 on November 1, 2025, under the Culturally and Linguistically Specific Services Program (CFDA 16.016) to implement culturally specific services for victims of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking. The award period runs through September 30, 2027, with performance in Anchorage, Alaska.

Cook Inlet Tribal Council, Inc., an Alaska Native tribal government organization and 501(c)(3) nonprofit based in Anchorage, will deliver five categories of services under this project grant: job training and post-secondary education, emergency assistance, support services and case management, youth programming, and referrals. The program addresses statutory purposes of the Office on Violence Against Women's Grants to Enhance Culturally Specific Services, which supports maintenance and replication of successful community-based programs as well as development of innovative culturally specific strategies to enhance access for victims who face obstacles to traditional service programs.

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. Projects must address at least one of the programs statutory purpose areas. Through this culturally specific services program project, cook inlet tribal council, INC. Will implement a project addressing the following activities: 1) job training and post-secondary education; 2) emergency assistance; 3) support services and case management; 4) youth programming; and 5) referrals.