The Administration for Children and Families (ACF), Office of Family Violence Prevention and Services (OFVPS) will award one cooperative agreement through the Family Violence Prevention and Services Discretionary Grant Program to support an Alaska Native Tribal Resource Center on Domestic Violence (ANTRC).
Donor Name: Administration for Children and Families
State: All States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 07/31/2023
Size of the Grant: $1,000,000
Grant Duration: 36 months
Details:
The ANTRC will focus on the intervention and prevention of family violence, domestic violence, and dating violence by offering statewide information, training, and technical assistance specifically designed to reduce tribal disparities within Alaska Native (AN) communities and villages. The purpose of this project is to enhance the capacity of AN tribes and tribal organizations to respond to family violence, domestic violence and dating violence in a culturally sensitive, relevant, and effective manner.
This funding opportunity will support the operation of a statewide technical assistance provider to enhance the capacity of AN tribes and tribal organizations to respond to family violence, domestic violence, and dating violence in a culturally sensitive and effective manner. The applicant must have the organizational capacity, leadership, and experience in serving AN from geographically diverse locations as well as experience providing training and technical assistance to programs, communities and other entities to address disparities faced by AN communities in addressing domestic violence.
This ANTRC will assist in building the statewide capacity to engage AN communities and programs including those in geographically isolated villages where community-level involvement is necessary. The applicant is required to directly support the provision of prevention programming including meetings and gatherings to work collaboratively with community members, tribal leaders, domestic violence advocates, and other relevant response systems, to develop policies and protocols and to improve prevention and response skills.
Program Requirements
The ANTRC grant recipient shall provide technical assistance to AN tribes and tribal organizations in carrying out all activities. The ANTRC grant recipient must do the following:
- Provide statewide technical assistance to expand the capacity of AN domestic violence programs, non-native domestic violence programs, and other responders to provide survivor- and culturally centered domestic violence prevention and intervention services.
- Create community-level involvement and develop programmatic resources and training tools to assist AN organizations, community-based supports, and non-native programs.
- Increase emergency/safety responses, access to shelter or safe homes and other supportive services such as legal assistance and transportation, for AN victims of domestic violence.
- Enhance public awareness through the development and promotion of the following: new and/or existing resources, including emerging issues and prevention/intervention strategies that are both broadly relevant and community specific; model program policies; sheltering policies; screening tools; and promising practices to support AN victims of domestic violence, families, and communities impacted by intimate partner violence.
- Synthesize research literature and conduct studies to inform development of frameworks that take into account the unique needs of AN victims of intimate partner violence with special emphasis on the populations that are geographically removed from accessible services.
- Develop partnerships and build innovative collaborations between entities such as: AN and non-native domestic violence providers, AN-specific organizations, the National Indigenous Women’s Resource Center (NIWRC), Strong hearts Native Helpline, the FVPSA Formula Grantees Capacity Building Center operated by National Network to End Domestic Violence (NNEDV), the DVRN, school teachers, community members, transportation providers, public health organizations, and social service agencies.
- Provide coordinated and topic-specific training and technical assistance to FVPSA AN program through onsite visits; presenting at statewide, regional, and national meetings and conferences; developing on-line, self-paced learning modules; presenting webinars; developing written materials; and coordinating small group meetings such as in-person conference calls and video technology to encourage peer learning. The grant recipient will participate in ongoing coordination and collaboration with the FVPSA-funded resource centers especially NIWRC, Stronghearts Native Helpline, and the FVPSA Formula Grantees Capacity Building Center operated by NNEDV.
- Address emerging issues related to family violence, domestic violence, and dating violence through the provision of training and technical assistance that is comprehensive and national in scope. Emerging topics of relevance may include violence prevention for children and youth, the co-occurrence of human trafficking and domestic violence, family/youth homelessness, services for male victims, services for children of all ages who witness violence, and meeting the needs of survivors with substance use histories.
- Conduct needs assessments to address emerging trends, gaps, and accessibility barriers that domestic violence victims may face when accessing health and social services in Alaska.
- Evaluate program performance that will contribute to continuous quality improvement. The program performance evaluation must monitor activities and the project’s progress.
- All FVPSA grant recipients are expected to implement evidence-based, evidence informed, and or promising strategies that regularly engage input and feedback from people with lived experience that are survivors of family violence, domestic violence, dating violence, and sexual assault and their children into their needs assessments. FVPSA grant recipients will ensure that these activities are meaningful, trauma-informed and grounded in the lived experiences of survivors and their children. The applicant will encourage survivor voice(s) and lead in partnership with survivors in program selection, program design, program improvement, and/or other recommendations. All FVPSA grant recipients are expected to ensure that products and activities are appropriately survivor-centered by regularly incorporating input and feedback from people with lived experience as survivors of domestic violence, dating violence, or sexual assault and their children into grant activities at multiple points in the development process.
- Coordinate with NNEDV in their efforts to assure the capacity of the states, domestic violence coalitions, and tribes to carry out the FVPSA grant program requirements with best practices and in adherence to FVPSA guidance, including legislation and regulations.
- Plan meetings, events and site visits in conjunction with OFVPS to allow for participation of OFVPS staff. The selected grant recipient will also assist FVPSA project officers with site visits and provide necessary technical assistance to grant recipients as part of followup to a site visit.
Funding Information
- Estimated Total Funding: $1,000,000
- Award Ceiling: $1,000,000
- Award Floor: $500,000
Project Period
36-month project period with three 12-month budget period.
Eligible Applicants
- Native American tribal organizations (other than Federally recognized tribal governments)
- Private institutions of higher education
- Public and State controlled institutions of higher education
- Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized)
- Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
- Nonprofits that do not have a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
Additional Information on Eligibility:
To be eligible to receive a grant to establish or maintain a State Resource Center to Reduce Tribal Disparities (SRC) under Section 310 (b)(3) of the FVPSA, an entity must be: located in a State in which the population of Indians (including Alaska Natives) or Native Hawaiians exceeds 10 percent of the population of the State; or 2) be an Indian tribe, tribal organization, or Native Hawaiian organization that focuses primarily on issues of domestic violence among Indians or Native Hawaiians, or an institution of higher education: and, 3) demonstrate the ability to serve all regions of the State, including underdeveloped areas and areas that are geographically distant from population centers. Applications from individuals (including sole proprietorships) and foreign entities are not eligible and will be disqualified from competitive review and funding under this funding opportunity. Faith-based and community organizations that meet the eligibility requirements are eligible to receive awards under this funding opportunity. Faith-based organizations may apply for this award on the same basis as any other organization, as set forth at and, subject to the protections and requirements of, ACF will not, in the selection of recipients, discriminate against an organization on the basis of the organization’s religious character, affiliation, or exercise.
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