Grants for Native American tribal organizations - Law Justice and Legal Services

This funding opportunity provides financial support to Indian Tribal governments and their designees to combat domestic violence, sexual assault, and related issues within Tribal communities.

This funding opportunity provides financial support to federally recognized Tribal governments to enhance their criminal justice systems and exercise jurisdiction over certain crimes committed by non-Indians within their territories.

This funding opportunity provides financial support to federally recognized Tribes in Washington State to develop and enhance services for individuals who have been victims of crime, focusing on addressing service gaps and promoting recovery within tribal communities.

This program provides funding to Tribal governments to enhance their criminal justice systems and enforce special jurisdiction over non-Indians committing specific crimes within their territories.

This funding opportunity provides financial support to Indian Tribal governments and their partners to combat violence against women in Tribal communities through various programs and services.

This funding opportunity provides financial support to federally recognized Native American tribes to improve traffic safety and occupant protection measures in their communities.

This program provides financial assistance to federally recognized tribes to improve traffic safety enforcement and child safety seat initiatives, aiming to reduce crashes and injuries in tribal communities.

This funding opportunity provides financial support to Tribal Nations in Arizona to address the impacts of fraudulent practices in sober living homes, helping to compensate affected individuals and promote recovery initiatives.

This funding opportunity provides financial support to federally recognized tribes and tribal consortia to improve public safety, justice systems, and victim services in their communities.

This grant provides financial support to federally recognized tribes for traffic safety projects aimed at reducing crashes and injuries in Indian Country through training and conference participation.

This funding opportunity provides financial support to federally recognized California tribes to address issues related to missing and murdered Indigenous people through various prevention and intervention initiatives.

This grant provides funding to nonprofit organizations and legal service providers to improve access to legal assistance for survivors of domestic violence, sexual assault, and stalking, particularly for underserved communities.

This funding opportunity provides financial support to Tribal Nations affected by fraud in behavioral healthcare and sober living homes, helping to compensate individuals and families for their economic losses.

This funding opportunity provides financial support to Minnesota public entities for planning and designing upgrades to outdated water infrastructure in environmental justice areas, helping to reduce sewer overflows and improve stormwater management.

This grant provides resources and support to employers, labor organizations, and victim service providers to help them create effective workplace responses for victims of domestic and sexual violence, with a focus on underserved communities and small businesses.

This program is authorized by 34 U.S.C. 10441(d) and 12511(d). The OVW Grants to Tribal Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault Coalitions Program (Tribal Coalitions Program (CFDA 16.557) is authorized by 34 U.S.C. 10441(d) and 34 U.S.C. 12511(d). This grant program supports the development and operation of nonprofit, nongovernmental Tribal domestic violence and sexual assault coalitions. Each recognized coalition will receive the same amount of base funding. Sexual assault coalitions and dual domestic violence/sexual assault coalitions will receive an additional amount for sexual assault-focused activities.

This program is authorized by Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023, Pub. L. No. 117-328, 136 Stat. 4459, 4532 and Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2024, Pub. L. No. 118-42, 138 Stat. 25, 143. Financial Assistance Grants for Victims of Sexual Assault, Domestic Violence, Dating Violence, and Stalking Program (FAV Program (CFDA 16.063)) supports victim service providers, Tribal governments, and Tribal organizations to provide flexible financial assistance to survivors of sexual assault, domestic violence, dating violence, and stalking, alongside other victim services. Flexible financial assistance is intended to support survivors in achieving safety, stability, and healing by paying for necessities that are not easily met by traditional service providers and with the flexibility to meet self-identified needs quickly.

The Violence Against Women Act of 2013 first authorized this program as an amendment to the Indian Civil Rights Act of 1968, and it was further amended by the Violence Against Women Act Reauthorization Act of 2022 (VAWA 2022) to include Alaska Tribes (codified as amended at 25 U.S.C. 1304(h)(2)). The OVW Special Tribal Criminal Jurisdiction Grant Program (Tribal Jurisdiction Program) (Assistance Listing # 16.025) supports tribes in their efforts to exercise special Tribal criminal jurisdiction (STCJ) over non-Indians who commit covered crimes within the Tribes jurisdictional boundaries and provides technical assistance for planning and implementing changes in their criminal justice systems necessary to exercise the jurisdiction. Covered crimes are: assault of Tribal justice personnel; child violence; dating violence; domestic violence; obstruction of justice; sexual violence; sex trafficking; stalking; and violation of a protection order. More information on the scope and requirements of STCJ is available on the DOJ website at https://www.justice.gov/tribal/2013-and-2022-reauthorizations-violence-against-women-act-vawa. The program supports tribes in preparing to exercise or exercising the jurisdiction to ensure that victims find safety and justice and that non-Indians who commit covered crimes within their communities are held accountable.

This program is authorized by 34 U.S.C 12511(e). The Tribal Sexual Assault Services Program (TSASP) (CFDA # 16.024) supports efforts 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. TSASP supported projects provide intervention, advocacy, accompaniment (e.g., accompanying victims to court, medical facilities, or police departments), support services, and related assistance for adult, youth, and child victims of sexual assault, non-offending family and household members of victims, and those collaterally affected by the sexual assault.

With this solicitation, BJA seeks to support the Departments priorities of reducing violent crime and supporting law enforcement officers and prosecutors by: Providing jurisdictions (including rural and tribal) with resources to address unsubmitted sexual assault kits (SAKs) (including partially tested kits) in their custody that have not been submitted to a forensic laboratory for testing with Combined DNA Index System (CODIS)-eligible DNA methodologies. Improving investigations and prosecutions in connection with evidence and cases resulting from the SAK testing process, as well as other violent cold case crimes. Providing sites with resources to collect DNA samples from qualifying individuals who should have a sample in CODIS, but from whom a sample has never been collected or submitted to a laboratory for testing, as well as developing/reforming policies for arrestee collections, if legally permissible in the awardees jurisdiction. In addition to addressing unsubmitted SAKs, the National Sexual Assault Kit Initiative (SAKI) addresses partially tested SAKs, as defined herein, and untested evidence associated with sexually motivated homicides and other violent cold case crimes.