OJJDP FY 20 Tribal Children's Advocacy Center Expansion Initiative for Child Abuse Victims

This solicitation provides funding to address the needs of child victims and their families in tribal communities through a multidisciplinary team response to child abuse cases. Many tribal communities are without access or have limited access to CACs to respond to cases of serious physical and sexual child abuse. This initiative will expand coverage and enhancement of proven, critical services offered by CACs throughout Indian country. The objectives and deliverables of this program are to fund the development of new satellite CACs in Indian Country to expand the coverage of existing accredited CACs for interested federally recognized tribes.

Federally recognized tribes, and currently operational accredited Children’s Advocacy Centers working with tribes to better serve American Indian child abuse victims and their families.

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