North Dakota Domestic & Sexual Violence Coalition

North Dakota Domestic & Sexual Violence Coalition, doing business as N D C A W S, is a non-profit organization headquartered in Bismarck, North Dakota, that serves as the state's designated domestic violence and sexual assault coalition. The organization provides federal grant-funded services focused on identifying, assessing, and responding to victims of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking across North Dakota, with particular emphasis on underserved rural, Native American, and LGBTQ populations. Through its various federal grant awards, NDCAWS coordinates victim services, implements prevention initiatives, provides legal assistance to survivors, and develops coordinated multi-agency responses to gender-based violence throughout the state.

NDCAWS has demonstrated sustained federal funding across multiple grant programs and funding agencies, including significant recent awards from the U.S. Department of Justice Office on Violence Against Women (OVW) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Center for Injury Prevention and Control (NCIPC). Current active grants include a $950,000 Rural Domestic Violence, Dating Violence, Sexual Assault, and Stalking Assistance Project Grant (CFDA 16.589) extending through September 2028, focused on establishing and expanding victim services in rural communities and developing sexual assault forensic medical examination programs; a $353,303 State Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault Coalitions Formula Grant (CFDA 16.556) through September 2026 for coordinating state victim services and collaborating with federal, state, and local entities; and a $540,000 Rape Prevention and Education project grant from NCIPC extending through June 2028 that builds infrastructure for sexual violence prevention addressing social determinants of health, with emphasis on housing stability for underserved populations and changing patriarchal social norms in rural areas. Previously, NDCAWS received a $125,830 NCIPC grant to conduct sexual violence prevention capacity assessments and a $950,000 Rural Domestic Violence grant covering 2021-2024. Additionally, NDCAWS has been awarded multiple Statewide Domestic Violence Coalition Formula Grants from the Administration on Children, Youth and Families, and a $950,000 Legal Assistance for Victims grant from OVW (2022-2027) providing comprehensive direct legal services in family law, housing, employment, immigration, and criminal justice matters. The organization has also received sub-awards as a sub-grantee from the North Dakota Department of Health and Human Services and the North Dakota Department of Corrections & Rehabilitation, supporting victim assistance programs, domestic violence offender treatment initiatives, and implementation of evidence-based prevention strategies such as the Green Dot bystander intervention program.