The Department of Justice Office on Violence Against Women’s Tribal Jurisdiction Program is designed to assist Indian tribes in exercising SDVCJ. Through this grant program, Indian tribes receive support and technical assistance for planning, developing, and implementing changes in their criminal justice systems necessary to exercise SDVCJ. The program encourages collaborations among tribal leadership, tribal courts, tribal prosecutors, tribal attorneys, tribal defenders, law enforcement, probation, service providers, and other partners to ensure that non-Indians who commit crimes of domestic violence, dating violence, and violations of protection orders are held accountable. The Tribal Jurisdiction Program encourages the coordinated involvement of the entire tribal criminal justice system and victim service providers to incorporate systemic change that ensures victim safety and offender accountability.

Read more about the Tribal Jurisdiction Program here.

Visit the DOJ OVW Open Solicitations Page for information about available funding.

View the 2019 solicitation for the Grants to Tribal Governments to Exercise Special Domestic Violence Criminal Jurisdiction (this solicitation is closed). 

DOJ Office on Violence Against Women 
Grants to Tribal Governments to Exercise Special Domestic Violence Criminal Jurisdiction