SUMMARY: This program provides funds to tribal governments to respond to domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, sex trafficking, and stalking in their communities. Funds under this program must be used for one or more of the following purposes:
- Develop and enhance effective governmental strategies to curtail violent crimes against women and increase the safety of Indian women consistent with tribal law and custom.
- Increase tribal capacity to respond to domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, sex trafficking, and stalking crimes against Indian women.
- Strengthen tribal justice interventions, including tribal law enforcement, prosecution, courts, probation, and correctional facilities.
- Enhance services to Indian women victimized by domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, sex trafficking, and stalking.
- Work in cooperation with the community to develop education and prevention strategies directed toward issues of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, sex trafficking, and stalking.
- Provide programs for supervised visitation and safe visitation exchange of children in situations involving domestic violence, sexual assault, or stalking committed by one parent against the other with appropriate security measures, policies, and procedures to protect the safety of victims and their children.
- Provide services to address the needs of youth (ages 11 – 24 years old) who are victims of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, sex trafficking, or stalking and the needs of youth and children exposed to domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, or stalking, including support for the non-abusing parent or caretaker of the youth or child.
- Provide transitional housing for victims of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, sex trafficking, or stalking, including rental or utilities payment assistance and assistance with related expenses such as security deposits and other costs incidental to relocation to transitional housing, and support services to enable a victim of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, sex trafficking, or stalking to locate and secure permanent housing and integrate into a community.
DEADLINE: Applications are to be submitted to grants.gov by April 8, 2025. Full applications are to be submitted to JustGrants by April 10, 2025. A similar deadline is anticipated annually.
ELIGIBILITY: Eligible applicants include an Indian tribal government, any tribe, band, pueblo, nation, a tribal designee, tribal consortium, or other organized group or community.
FOR MORE INFORMATION: https://grants.gov/search-results-detail/358070