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Violence Prevention

DVP: Domestic Violence & Sexual Assault Prevention and Awareness (IHS Award # BH151IHS0090)

The purpose of this project is to train community members about domestic violence and what it looks like. Collaborating with other community organizations to help work together to provide better resources for clients and having wrap around services.  Teaching community health professionals Trauma Informed Care.

Jessica Mullin

Interim Project Director

OVW: Office on Violence Against Women, U.S. Department of Justice (Grant No. 15JOVW-23-GG-01615-TRIB)

The purpose of this project is to increase access to services for victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, stalking, and dating violence specifically (but not limited to) Indigenous women. 

Carley Harris

Project Director

BJA Stop School Violence
(DOJ/OVC Award # 15PBJA-22-GG-04684-STOP)

This program is based on the Student, Teachers, and Officers Preventing School Violence Act of 2018 (or STOP School Violence Act). The program seeks to increase school safety by implementing: training that will improve school climate using school-based behavioral threat assessments and/or intervention teams to identify school violence risks among students; technological solutions such as anonymous reporting technology that can be implemented as a mobile phone-based app, a hotline, or a website in the applicant’s geographic area to enable students, teachers, staff, and community members to anonymously identify threats of school violence; or other school safety strategies that assist in preventing violence.

Judy Petitt

Project Director