Bristol Bay Victim Service Expansion Project

OVC’s mission is to enhance the nation’s capacity to assist crime victims and provide leadership in changing policies and practices to promote justice and healing for all victims of crime. OVC achieves this mission, in part, by administering award programs supported by the federal Crime Victims Fund (CVF) to develop innovative training and technical assistance, and to provide direct services to improve the overall quality of victim assistance.

The overall goal of the FY 2019 Tribal Victim Services Set-Aside Program solicitation is to provide support to tribal communities to improve services for victims of crime. Under the solicitation, OVC solicited applications for funding to support a comprehensive range of activities including needs assessment, strategic planning, program development and implementation, program expansion, and other activities needed to address the needs of a wide variety of crime victims in tribal communities.

With an award under Purpose Area 2: Coordination and Expansion of Existing Victim Service Program, Bristol Bay Native Association will expand its services to serve male victims of domestic and sexual violence, and their children by providing transitional shelter, emergency travel, referrals to existing services, and local taxicab vouchers to access services and appointments services to help them establish a safe home for them and their children. This includes men victims of domestic violence and abuse and/or who incurred abuse when they were a youth or a child.(CA/NCF).