Rural Health
Funding by Sponsor: Office for Victims of Crime

Developing Future Victim Specialists to Serve American Indian/Alaska Native Victims of Crime Inactive
Grants to recruit, train, and develop victim service professionals that will provide direct victim services to American Indian/Alaska Native victims of crime in locations that are remote and where positions are hard to fill. Projects should focus on engaging interested individuals, including college and university students, who are from, or live and attend school in, these areas.

Tribal Victim Services Set-Aside Formula Program Inactive
Grants for tribal communities to improve services for victims of crime. Funding may support a comprehensive range of activities including needs assessment, strategic planning, program development, implementation, and other activities needed to address the needs of a wide variety of crime victims in tribal communities.

Expanding Access to Sexual Assault Forensic Examinations Inactive
Funding to establish and/or expand medical forensic exams and sexual assault victim services in a hospital or non-hospital setting to sexual assault victims. A focus of the program is the use of innovative ways of bringing experienced medical forensic examiners to rural, tribal, and underserved communities.

Children's Justice Act Partnerships for Indian Communities (Purpose Area 6): Coordinated Tribal Assistance Solicitation (CTAS) Inactive
Funding, technical assistance, and training to help American Indian and Alaska Native communities develop, establish, and operate programs designed to improve the investigation, prosecution, and handling of cases of child abuse and neglect, and particularly child sexual abuse cases, in a manner which lessens trauma for child victims.

Enhancing Services for Older Victims of Abuse and Financial Exploitation Inactive
Funding for projects that enhance services for older victims of abuse and financial exploitation. Priority will be given to applications addressing challenges in rural communities, persistent-poverty counties, and in qualified Opportunity Zones.

Enhancing Community Responses to America's Addiction Crisis: Serving Our Youngest Crime Victims Inactive
Funding to support direct crime victim services for children and youth impacted by the opioid epidemic. Funding for a single training and technical assistance provider for direct services grantees is also available through this program.

Using Telehealth to Improve Care, Access, and Quality of Sexual Assault Forensic Exams Inactive
Grants to enhance the care for sexual assault victims, improve access and quality of forensic examinations, and expand access to the expertise of Sexual Assault Nurse Examiners through telehealth technology for communities with limited access.

Tribal Set-Aside Training and Technical Assistance Program Inactive
Funding to provide training and technical assistance for Tribal Victim Services Set-Aside Program grantees using a culturally appropriate approach designed to foster the emotional, mental, and physical health of victims, their families, and the community.

Office for Victims of Crime American Indian/Alaska Native Training and Technical Assistance Program Inactive
Funding for technical assistance providers to offer resources and coordination to increase the ability of tribal communities to provide comprehensive, culturally appropriate, and victim-centered services designed to foster dignity and spiritual, mental, and physical health in crime victims, their families, and the community.