The First Nations Women's Alliance (FNWA) received a $500,000 Project Grant from the Department of Justice Office for Victims of Crime (OVC) under the VOCA Tribal Victim Services Set-Aside Program (CFDA 16.841). The funding will support FNWA's Developing Victim Specialists Project, which aims to create and sustain a pool of direct service workers for remote tribal victim service programs serving Native American communities in North Dakota. Key project activities include recruiting, hiring, training, and mentoring cohorts of 10 student interns from tribal colleges each semester, providing training to host sites on integrating new workers, and strengthening connections with tribal colleges as a workforce resource. The expected outcome is the development of a program framework to facilitate a sustainable pool of victim specialists for the service area, which includes the Mandan Hidatsa Arikara Nation, Spirit Lake Nation, Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa, and Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate. The project period runs from October 1, 2023 to September 30, 2026.
Mod # | Description | Reason For Modification | Federal Obligation (Click to sort descending) | Date (Click to sort ascending) |
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| Not listed | $500.0k | 9/20/23 |