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New Funding Opportunity: FY2022 Tribal Sexual Assault Services Program Solicitation Now Open

2022-02-28T22:44:29+00:00

Funds are now available to enhance sexual assault services provided by tribal organizations in Indian country and Alaska Native villages. The Tribal Sexual Assault Services Program (TSASP) supports projects to create, maintain, and expand sustainable sexual assault services provided by Tribes, tribal organizations, and nonprofit tribal organizations within Indian country and Alaska Native villages. The funds may be used for a range of activities to support the establishment, maintenance, and expansion of programs and projects that provide direct intervention and related assistance to victims of sexual assault. Eligible Applicants: Limited to Indian tribes, tribal consortia, tribal organizations, and nonprofit tribal organizations Application [...]

New Funding Opportunity: FY2022 Tribal Sexual Assault Services Program Solicitation Now Open2022-02-28T22:44:29+00:00

Tribe grapples with missing women crisis on California coast

2022-02-21T20:03:46+00:00

By GILLIAN FLACCUS Associated Press February 21, 2022 YUROK RESERVATION, Calif. — The young mother had behaved erratically for months, hitchhiking and wandering naked through two Native American reservations and a small town clustered along Northern California's rugged Lost Coast. But things escalated when Emmilee Risling was charged with arson for igniting a fire in a cemetery. Her family hoped the case would force her into mental health and addiction services. Instead, she was released over the pleas of loved ones and a tribal police chief. The 33-year-old college graduate — an accomplished traditional dancer with ancestry from three area tribes [...]

Tribe grapples with missing women crisis on California coast2022-02-21T20:03:46+00:00

Funding Opportunity: FY 2022 OVW Justice for Families Program Solicitation

2022-02-11T22:34:52+00:00

View the Grant Announcement The Grants to Support Families in the Justice System program (referred to as the Justice for Families Program) was authorized in the Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act of 2013 (VAWA 2013) to improve the response of the civil and criminal justice system to families with a history of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking, or in cases involving allegations of child sexual abuse. The program supports the following activities for improving the capacity of courts and communities to respond to families affected by the targeted crimes: court-based and court-related programs; supervised visitation and safe exchange [...]

Funding Opportunity: FY 2022 OVW Justice for Families Program Solicitation2022-02-11T22:34:52+00:00

Funding Opportunity: Fiscal Year 2022 OVW Legal Assistance for Victims (LAV) Grant Program Solicitation

2022-02-11T22:27:23+00:00

The Legal Assistance for Victims Grant Program is intended to increase the availability of civil and criminal legal assistance needed to effectively aid adult and youth (ages 11 and older) victims of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking by providing funds for comprehensive direct legal services to victims in legal matters relating to or arising out of that abuse or violence. Eligibility: Limited to Indian tribal governments; tribal organizations; private nonprofit entities; publicly funded organizations not acting in a governmental capacity; and territorial organizations. Application Deadlines Grants.gov: March 10, 2022, 11:59 PM ET JustGrants: March 16, 2022, 11:59 PM [...]

Funding Opportunity: Fiscal Year 2022 OVW Legal Assistance for Victims (LAV) Grant Program Solicitation2022-02-11T22:27:23+00:00

Funding Opportunity: FY 2022 OVW Grants to Tribal Governments to Exercise Special Domestic Violence Criminal Jurisdiction

2022-02-02T21:11:17+00:00

The Grants to Tribal Governments to Exercise Special Domestic Violence Criminal Jurisdiction program encourages collaborations among tribal leadership, courts, prosecutors, attorneys, defense counsel, law enforcement, probation, victim service providers, and other partners to ensure that victims find safety and justice and that non-Indians who commit crimes of domestic violence, dating violence, and violations of protection orders in the Indian country of the participating tribe are held accountable. Eligible applicants are limited to governments of Indian tribes that have jurisdiction over Indian country. Application Deadlines: Grants.gov – March 22, 2022 11:59 PM ET JustGrants – March 24, 2022 11:59 PM ET View [...]

Funding Opportunity: FY 2022 OVW Grants to Tribal Governments to Exercise Special Domestic Violence Criminal Jurisdiction2022-02-02T21:11:17+00:00

Systems Advocacy: Creating Safe, Respectful & Effective Responses Part 3

2022-02-15T15:11:46+00:00

  “I was so tired I could hardly think. Petrified about going to court.  The prosecutor was an angel. Kind, patient. He actually said he was sorry I got beaten up, I didn’t deserve it – no matter what. Then he said he would do the prosecution without me if I wanted. The cops did a great job investigating, documenting, and the doctor did a detailed report, so it was possible for him to go ahead without me!” “I was a new advocate in a new domestic violence program on a reservation of about 5,500 people. Went to the police station [...]

Systems Advocacy: Creating Safe, Respectful & Effective Responses Part 32022-02-15T15:11:46+00:00

Systems Advocacy: Creating Safe, Respectful & Effective Responses Part 2

2022-02-15T15:10:48+00:00

  “It was about six months after my children and I finally got a house in tribal housing. I was struggling to get to work, take care of the kids and keep the car working. I needed my ex to watch the children a couple days a week so I could work. I trusted him to take good care of them for that amount of time. One day I drove to town, about 18 miles away, to get my paperwork up-dated for food stamps. I handed my papers to the worker. She gave me a mean look, grabbing the papers from [...]

Systems Advocacy: Creating Safe, Respectful & Effective Responses Part 22022-02-15T15:10:48+00:00

Systems Advocacy: Creating Safe, Respectful & Effective Responses

2022-02-15T15:08:19+00:00

  “I spent 4 days in jail for an unpaid traffic ticket. My boyfriend beat me up and I called the cops. He was gone by the time they got to my house. But they ran my name and arrested me…” “It was such a struggle - I needed to get a protection order against my husband. Took time off from work, got a ride from a friend…embarrassing, depressing. I wanted me and my kids to be safe, sleep good at night... I asked the clerk of courts for the protection order form. The clerk looked exasperated, didn’t even say hello. [...]

Systems Advocacy: Creating Safe, Respectful & Effective Responses2022-02-15T15:08:19+00:00

COVID19: Coping with Anxiety

2022-02-15T15:04:34+00:00

  As we continue journeying through the uncharted waters of the coronavirus pandemic, there are likely many “shoulds” and “coulds” that come into our minds in any given moment. All too often, those “shoulds” encourage us to reach outside of ourselves and find solutions to ease the discomfort. Like many things, reaching outside of ourselves is not our natural response, but rather a learned, conditioned response. We have been conditioned to do this. We have been conditioned to believe that if something feels wrong, there is something out there that will fix it. So we reach. We reach for the thing [...]

COVID19: Coping with Anxiety2022-02-15T15:04:34+00:00

Domestic Violence: Collusion & Coercion

2021-12-07T15:17:52+00:00

"Robert and I have known each other since grade school; we've been together for about four years and have two children - Amy is 2 years old and Jason is 3 months. We’ve had arguments and fights and separated a couple of times. Robert’s family has interfered from time to time, always taking his side. He’s hit me and pushed me and caused me to fall and break an arm. His family said I deserved it; I should have left him alone and stopped b___ing at him all the time. I’ve had two Orders of Protection against him, but I’ve dropped [...]

Domestic Violence: Collusion & Coercion2021-12-07T15:17:52+00:00
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