The Center

Culturally Responsive Victim Services Grant Program

The CRVS grant program will support culturally specific organizations that provide strategic, culturally specific programming that addresses violence prevention and intervention in their communities.  Accepting applications through January 23, 2025!

In partnership with The National Organization of Sisters of Color Ending Sexual Assault (SCESA), we are honored to introduce the Center funded by a grant awarded by the U.S. Department of Justice Office for Victims of Crime.

The Center Aims To:

The Center offers…

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We provide virtual and on-site technical assistance to culturally specific organizations to address their specific capacity-building and infrastructure needs. We offer in-person training and virtual webinars for community-based organizations, government, and private funders to address the impact of systemic bias and oppression on culturally specific organizations, victims/survivors, and their communities.

Our TTA includes topics such as:

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The Centers Resources

We offer culturally specific webinars that serve as a virtual collaborative learning space for culturally specific service providers. Topics include: Navigating Grief in the Black Community, Addressing Elder Abuse in Culturally Specific Communities, Food Insecurity among Survivors of Color, and Culturally Specific Healing Modalities

We conduct community-based and community-informed research. We also publish literature about community needs and barriers limiting access to culturally specific victim services and funding.

We provide funding to support culturally specific organizations to enhance their infrastructure and expand the capacity of their programs.

Our listening sessions allow us to listen to feedback from organizations, survivors, and other stakeholders about the challenges to – and successful strategies for – addressing domestic violence and sexual assault in marginalized communities.

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The Center is produced by Ujima and SCESA under Grant Number 15POVC-21-GK-00845-NONF, awarded by the Office for Victims of Crime, Office of Justice Programs, U.S. Department of Justice. The opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed by the center are those of the contributors and do not necessarily represent the official position or policies of the U.S. Department of Justice.

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