The Office on Violence Against Women is soliciting applications for its Grants to Indian Tribal Governments: Strengthening Tribal Advocacy Responses Track.
Donor Name: Office on Violence Against Women
State: All States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 04/24/2024
Size of the Grant: More than $1 million
Grant Duration: 3 Years
Details:
The Grants to Indian Tribal Governments Program: Strengthening Tribal Advocacy Responses Track (START), referred to as Tribal Governments START, was authorized to assist tribal governments, and authorized designees of tribal governments, to respond to domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, sex trafficking, and stalking in tribal communities.
Purpose Areas
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 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.
- Provide legal assistance necessary to provide effective aid to victims of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, sex trafficking, and stalking who are seeking relief in legal matters arising as a consequence of that abuse or violence, at minimal or no cost to the victims.
- 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.
- Develop and promote legislation and policies that enhance best practices for responding to violent crimes against Indian women, including the crimes of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, sex trafficking, and stalking.
- Develop, strengthen, and implement policies, protocols, and training for law enforcement regarding cases of missing or murdered Indians.
- Compile and annually report data to the Attorney General related to missing or murdered Indians.
Funding Information
- Although there is no budget cap for this program, OVW typically makes awards in the range of $500,000 – $1,200,000.
- OVW estimates that it will make up to 60 Tribal Governments Program awards (including Tribal Governments Program and Tribal Governments START awards) for an estimated $52,000,000.
Project Period
The award period is 36 months.
Eligibility Criteria
The following entities are eligible to apply for this program
- Indian Tribal Government, meaning the governing body of an Indian tribe or any tribe, band, pueblo, nation or other organized group or community (including any Alaska Native Village or regional or village corporation as defined in or established pursuant to the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act that is recognized as eligible for the special programs and services provided by the United States to Indians because of their status as Indians.
- Tribal Designee, meaning an organization that is acting as the authorized designee of an Indian Tribal Government, as defined above.
- Tribal Consortium, a coalition of two or more separate Indian Tribes that join together for the purpose of participating in self-governance.
For more information, visit Grants.gov.
