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The goal of the Children’s Justice Act Partnerships for Indian Communities (CJA) program is to provide 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. • To improve investigative, prosecutorial, and judicial practices so that trauma is reduced for victims of child abuse and neglect. • Adopt a trauma-informed, multidisciplinary approach to the investigation, prosecution, and management of cases of child abuse and neglect by providing training to tribal, state, and federal professionals responsible for responding to and intervening in cases of child abuse and neglect in the applicant tribal community. Project activities should focus on improving coordination of efforts through information sharing and developing and implementing written response protocols for child abuse and neglect cases that are designed to minimize trauma for child victims and their family members. • Provide emergency services for children who are at imminent risk of harm and crisis intervention services to aid child victims and their family members in recovering from incidents of abuse and neglect. • Develop specialized services for victims of child abuse and neglect and their family members. The performance measures for this assistance listing are: 1.Number of victims served through Coordinated Tribal Assistance Solicitation PA 6 grantees 2.Number of initiatives, project deliverables, and planning documents developed or enhanced through Coordinated Tribal Assistance Solicitation PA 6 grantees.
This chart shows obligations for the program by fiscal year. All data for this chart was provided by the
administering agency and sourced from SAM.gov, USASpending.gov, and Treasury.gov.
For more information on each of these data sources, please see the
About the data page.
The CJA program supported federally recognized Indian tribes or authorized designees in developing, establishing, and operating programs to improve the investigation, prosecution and overall handling of child abuse cases, particular cases of child sexual abuse, in a manner that limits additional trauma to child victims. OVC funded six awards in this purpose area totaling $2.6 million. Additionally, OVC funded training and technical assistance cooperative agreements to support OVC’s Tribal grantees. The purpose of this program is to enhance all OVC tribal awardees’ capacity to provide a comprehensive array of culturally appropriate services to victims of crime, their families, and the community. Funding supported two awards totaling $300,000.
Through funding over 50 CJA program awards to tribes.
Single Audit Applies (2 CFR Part 200 Subpart F):
For additional information on single audit requirements for this program, review the current Compliance Supplement.
OMB is working with the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) and agency offices of inspectors general to include links to relevant oversight reports. This section will be updated once this information is made available.
