This project will support victims services, including child advocacy centers, mental health services for children exposed to voilence and trauma, legal assistance, and community-based victim service…

This $4,000,000 Project Grant awarded by the U.S. Department of Justice's Office of Justice Programs (OJP) under the Congressionally Recommended Awards (CFDA 16.753) program will support critical victim services in the state of Alaska. The grant funding will be utilized by the Alaska Department of Public Safety's Council on Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault (CDVSA) to provide sub-awards to local service providers, including child advocacy centers, mental health providers for children exposed to violence and trauma, legal assistance organizations, and community-based victim service projects. This is due to reductions in other grant funding sources, such as the Victims of Crime Act (VOCA), which have led to drastic service cuts. The sub-awards will provide programmatic and operational support to ensure that victims continue to receive essential services during this period of unstable and uncertain funding. Key sub-recipients include non-profit organizations like Star Inc., Sitkans Against Family Violence, The Tundra Women's Coalition, and Women In Safe Homes, which will deliver a range of victim-centered services such as crisis intervention, counseling, legal advocacy, shelters, and community outreach across rural and urban areas of Alaska.

This project will support victims services, including child advocacy centers, mental health services for children exposed to voilence and trauma, legal assistance, and community-based victim service projects throughtout the state of alaska. Due to a decrease in grant funding, such as the victims of crime act (voca) funding, direct service providers are facing drastic cuts, which inevitably will reduce criticial services. Cdvsa will utilize funds from the OVC congressional byrne grant to sub-grant to provider for programmatic and operational support to ensure victims contine to be served during this time of unstable and uncertain funding amounts. Sub-recipient of these funds will be cdvsa sub-grantees in both rural and urban areas across the state of alaska.