The Indian Health Service (IHS) is accepting competitive grant applications for the Domestic Violence Prevention Initiative (DVPI) for American Indians and Alaska Natives (AI/AN).

This announcement is a limited targeted solicitation for urban Indian organizations as defined by the P.L.

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94-437, the Indian Healthcare Improvement Act (IHCIA), as amended, Title V Urban Health organization.

The purpose of the IHS DVPI is to expand the number of available DV services, advocates, and community collaborations available in the urban AI/AN population in the United States.

The DVPI aims to improve the responsiveness of urban Indian organizations by establishing and sustaining programs that prevent violence against AI/AN.

For funding, the DVPI pilot sites must address the following seven guiding principals:
1.

Coordinate services for urban communities to respond to local domestic violence crises.

2.

Participate in a nationally coordinated program focusing specifically on increasing access to domestic violence prevention or treatment services for survivors and their families.

3.

Provide community-focused responses in the urban setting that enhances evidence-based or practice-based domestic violence prevention or treatment services or education programming.

4.

Provide communities with needed resources to develop their own urban based community-focused programs.

5.

Establish baseline data in the local communities.

6.

Adequately document the level of need for the urban Indian community, and; 7.

Be scaled at a level that will ensure measurable impact.