Domestic Violence Prevention

The Domestic Violence Prevention (DVP) Program, formerly known as the Domestic Violence Prevention Initiative (DVPI), is a congressionally mandated, nationally coordinated grant for tribes, tribal organizations, and Urban Indian organizations (UIO), providing violence prevention and treatment services. The DVP program promotes the development of evidence-based and practice-based models that represent culturally appropriate prevention and treatment approaches to domestic and sexual violence from a community-driven context. The DVP program expands outreach and increases awareness by funding projects that provide victim advocacy, intervention, case coordination, policy development, community response teams, sexual assault examiner programs, and community and school education programs.

Grants Awarded to Combat Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault in Indian Country

The IHS Office of Clinical and Preventive Services, Division of Behavioral Health awarded a total 41 grants to Tribes, Tribal organizations, and Urban Indian organizations (UIOs) to address domestic violence and sexual assault in Indian Country. This funding will help continue work that has been done by Tribes, Tribal organizations, and UIOs in the Domestic Violence Prevention Initiative (DVPI) demonstration phase and the 2015-2021 Domestic Violence Prevention (DVP) program funding cycle.

The DVP grantees will implement evidence-and practice-based models that represent culturally appropriate prevention, intervention, treatment and aftercare approaches to domestic and sexual violence from a community-driven context in American Indian/Alaska Native (AI/AN) communities.