Deadline: 24-Jun-2025
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), Office on Violence Against Women (OVW) is accepting applications for the Indian Tribal Governments Program.
The Grants to Indian Tribal Governments Program, referred to as the Tribal Governments Program, assists Tribal governments (or their authorized designees) to respond to domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, sex trafficking, and stalking in Tribal communities.
Purpose Areas
- Government Strategies
- 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.
- Tribal Capacity
- Increase Tribal capacity to respond to domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, sex trafficking, and stalking crimes against Indian women.
- Tribal Justice
- Strengthen Tribal justice interventions including Tribal law enforcement, prosecution, courts, probation, and correctional facilities.
- Enhanced Services
- Enhance services to Indian women victimized by domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, sex trafficking, and stalking.
- Education and Prevention
- 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.
- Supervised Visitation and Safe Exchange
- 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.
- Transitional Housing
- 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.
- Legal Assistance
- 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.
- Youth Services
- 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.
- Legislation and Policies
- 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.
- Missing or Murdered Indians: Law Enforcement
- Develop, strengthen, and implement policies, protocols, and training for law enforcement regarding cases of missing or murdered Indians.
- Missing or Murdered Indians: Data
- Compile and annually report data to the Attorney General related to missing or murdered Indians.
Priorities
- Applications that fare well in merit review and substantively address one or more of the priorities listed below, to the extent consistent with the program’s authorizing statute, may receive priority consideration for funding:
- Measures to combat human trafficking and transnational crime, particularly crimes linked to illegal immigration and cartel operations, that support safety and justice for trafficking victims who have also suffered domestic violence, sexual assault, dating violence, and/or stalking; and
- Projects to provide victim services, especially housing, and improve law enforcement response in rural and remote areas, Tribal nations, and small towns that often lack resources to effectively combat domestic violence and sexual assault.
Funding Information
- Estimated Total Program Funding: $ 52,000,000
- Award Ceiling: $1,000,000
- Award Floor: $400,000
Eligibility Criteria
- Entities that are eligible to apply are:
- Indian Tribal Governments
- The governing body of an Indian Tribe; or
- A Tribe, band, pueblo, nation, or other organized group or community of Indians, 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 Designees
- A Tribal Designee is an organization that is acting as the authorized designee of an Indian Tribal Government.
- Tribal Consortia
- A Tribal Consortium is 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.
