The Family Violence Prevention and Services Act (FVPSA) program will award $49.5 million in American Rescue Plan supplemental funding for the Support for Survivors of Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault from Culturally Specific Populations Grant Program. ARP supplemental grant awards will be allocated to the Culturally Specific Special Issue Resource Centers (CSSIRCs), the National Indian Resource Center (NIRC), and the Alaska Native Tribal Resource Center on Domestic Violence (ANTRCDV). The CSSIRCs, NIRC, and ANTRCDV will implement a process to subaward the ARP Support for Survivors of Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault from Culturally Specific Populations Grant Program funds to support culturally specific community-based organizations providing culturally specific sexual assault and domestic violence services to adult, child, and youth survivors from racial and ethnic specific minority groups and underserved populations.
By addressing domestic violence and sexual violence as public health epidemics, FVPSA’s reach is broad and changes lives. Each year, FVPSA-funded state and tribal programs serve more than 1.3 million victims and their dependents and respond to 2.7 million crisis calls; with these supplemental funds, FVPSA grant programs will be able to provide critical supports to even more families all across the country.