Changes to Form

Grants to Support Tribal Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault Coalitions Program Draft Revisions

New or Revised Data to be collected beginning January 1, 2008 for the January-June 2008 report, to be submitted by July 30, 2008

1. GENERAL INFORMATION

Type of grantee organization has changed to “established”, “individual”, “other non-profit”

Type of coalition has been added to include “sexual assault coalition”, “domestic violence coalition”, “dual sexual assault/domestic violence coalition”

A2. Staff information

New categories of funded staff have been added:

• Communication specialist (public awareness, media relations)

• Tribal cultural specialist

Removed “paralegal”

B. Program Activities changed to “Purpose Areas”

Areas have changed and are expanded. Also added an additional question about “other culturally specific activities”

3. FUNCTION AREAS

C1. Training

New categories added:

• Offender accountability staff

• Military command staff

• SAFE/SANE

Removed “Community advocacy organization staff”

We have also combined victim advocates (sexual assault, domestic violence, and dual)

We have added content areas

• Historical trauma

• Response to victims who are incarcerated

• Tribal strategies to address sexual assault or domestic violence

• Sex offender registries

• Sexual assault forensic examiners

• Issues specific to American Indian victims/survivors who are geographically isolated

• Issues specific to American Indian victims/survivors who live in urban areas

We removed content areas

• Issues specific to American Indian victims/survivors who are isolated or institutionalized

• Immigration statutes

C3. System Advocacy

Added agencies/organization/people including, “offender accountability staff” and “SAFE/SANE”

Added categories to Coordination activities

• E-mail

• Fax

• Newsletters

• Telephone/conference call

• U.S. Mail

C4. Policies

We added dating violence where domestic violence is indicated.

C5. Products

Removed Tribal codes.

C6. Technical Assistance

We have added categories to recipients of technical assistance:

• Offender monitor

• Disability organization

• Elder organization

• Military command staff

• Other tribal coalition

• Youth program

We have added categories to topics of technical assistance:

• Developing or enhancing appropriate services for elder victims

• Developing or enhancing appropriate services for victims who have disabilities

• Responding to dating violence victims/survivors

• Sex offender registries

• We removed “criminal codes”

C7. Standards of Service

We removed this section.

C8. Other Underserved Populations

We removed this section.

C9. Organizational Development and Capacity Building (now C7)

Removed category “anti-oppression work”

F. NARRATIVE

Optional focused narrative questions

At the end of “program activities”, “training”, “education”, “system advocacy”, “policies” and “topics of technical assistance”, there will be an optional narrative question that gives you the opportunity to provide additional information regarding that particular activity area. Following is an example from the training section:

Use the space below to discuss the effectiveness of your training activities and to provide further explanation on how these activities increase the safety of American Indian/Alaska Native women.

Optional data clarification question

A final question allows subgrantees to provide additional information to explain and clarify the data contained in the reporting form.

Provide any additional information that you would like us to know about the data submitted. (If you have any information that could be helpful in understanding the data you have submitted in this report, please answer this question. For example, if you submitted two different progress reports for the same reporting period, you may explain how the data was apportioned to each report; or if you funded staff— but did not report any corresponding activities, you may explain why; or if you did not use program funds to support either staff or activities during the reporting period, please explain how program funds were used, if you have not already done so.)