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July 2024

Check-In, Tech-Up Webinar Series

1 of 3 Webinars Starting Wednesday, July 17, from 1:00 - 2:30 P.M. (MT)

NIWRC is offering three different Tech Clinics to assist in building your organization’s capacity and strengthening your digital practices. This series of “Check-In, Tech-Up Clinics” demonstrates innovative and best practices for grantees to use to address challenges you face with grant reporting, data protection, and collection to ensure the safety and confidentiality of survivors, protect the integrity of your work and simplify data collection and reporting requirements.

NEW DEADLINE! Research Fellowship Applications. 

Applications are due August 12, 2024!

Fireside Session Series: Bridging Service Gaps Utilizing Federal Funds to Best Meet the Needs of Tribal Victims-Survivors of Gender-based Violence.

Wednesday, August 28, from 12:00 - 1:00 P.M. (MT)

This Fireside session will share how Tribes and Tribal organizations can develop their sustainable responses, including responding to challenges to best meet the needs of survivors and Tribal communities by pooling together different federal funds and maximizing impact. We hope to inspire listeners.

Peer to Peer - Returning to Land and Culture Based Wellness: Knowledge Exchange for Systems Change with the Waking Women Healing Institute

Tuesday, August 27 - 28, All day. Keshena, WI. 

Knowledge exchange with peers from around Turtle Island who are seeking to strengthen and/or grow their culturally founded and land based work to improve wellness outcomes for survivors in the areas of healing, prevention, and response.

Location: Keshena, WI. 

Agenda, Details and Registration Coming Soon!

In the News

• Joint Statement on Scotus Decision in Grants Pass Today.

• Tribal Official Shares Thoughts About Noem's Tribal Public Safety Summit.

• First Female Leader in Centuries Returns a Tribal Nation to Its Roots.

• Hawaiian Midwifery on Trial: What’s at Stake in This Defining Moment for Indigenous Rights and Women’s Health.

• U.S. Senate Unanimously Passes Bill To Return Land to Nebraska’s Winnebago Tribe.

• On Location: ‘Fancy Dance’ Takes Audiences on a Tour of Indigenous Oklahoma.

Funding Opportunities

• U.S. Department of Justice, Office on Violence Against Women 
  • View All Open Solicitations
• U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children & Families
  • View Open Solicitations- refine by agency, eligibility, and category
• The Department of Justice’s Office of Justice Programs, Office on Violence Against Women, and Office of Community Oriented Policing Services
  • View Open Solicitations

• NEW! BJA Funding To Increase Access To Housing for People Who Are Currently or Formerly Involved in the Criminal Justice System

  • View Solicitation
  • View STTARS email

Policy Updates

• June Edition of Restoration Magazine. Read it online. Download the PDF.
• NEW! View our 118th Legislative Update (June 2024).
• Write Congress: Reauthorize FVPSA! 
• Tell Congress: Pass the BADGES Act! 
  • The BADGES for Native Communities Act ensures that Tribal justice systems have the resources and support necessary to protect Tribal communities.

Upcoming Events 

• Webinar - Check-In, Tech Up (1 of 3): Navigating IT Systems to Support the Work of Tribal Domestic Violence Programs and Shelters.  (July 17) 

• Webinar - Check In, Tech Up (2 of 3): Navigating IT Systems to Support the Work of Tribal Domestic Violence Programs and Shelters. (August 7)

• Webinar - Check In, Tech Up (3 of 3): Navigating IT Systems to Support the Work of Tribal Domestic Violence Programs and Shelters. (August 29)
• Training -  Specialty Institute: Enhancing Indigenous Advocacy for Survivors of IPV Impacted by Trauma, Mental Health, and Substance Use. (August 13 - 15)

• Training - Peer to Peer - Returning to Land and Culture Based Wellness: Knowledge Exchange for Systems Change with the Waking Women Healing Institute. (August 27 - 28)

• Webinar - Fireside Session: Bridging Service Gaps Utilizing Federal Funds to Best Meet the Needs of Tribal Victims-Survivors of Gender-based Violence. (August 28)

Featured Resources

Lateral Kindness: Moving Away from Lateral Violence to Lateral Kindness

Advocacy for LGBTQ2S+ Resources, DATA, and BARRIERS

The Restoration of Native Sovereignty and Safety for Native Women magazine: June 2024

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