16.815: Tribal Civil and Criminal Legal Assistance Grants, Training and Technical Assistance

16.815

Active

Office of Justice Programs (OJP) [DOJ]

Sept. 21, 2022

Sept. 21, 2022

Goal: The goal of this program is to build and enhance capacity and improve delivery of legal services to individuals and tribes as well as to develop policies that improve access to tribal justice systems. Objectives: The objective varies with each new solicitation issued every three years, see the solicitation. For example, the Fiscal Year 2018 TCCLA solicitation focused on development, implementation, and enhancement of Holistic Defense initiative, a new approach to traditional defense representation. This enhanced approach brings together an interdisciplinary team of criminal defense, legal aid, social services, public health and public housing and others to provide culturally appropriate services to the defense’s client. This initiative supports Indian tribes including those who are implementing either the Special Domestic Violence Criminal Jurisdiction of the Violence Against Women’s Act or Enhanced Sentencing Authority of the Tribal Law and Order Act or seeking new defense strategies that can incorporate healing principles.

B - Project Grants

Applicants for Tribal Legal Assistance Services Grants are limited to non-profit organizations, as defined by (Internal Revenue Code § 501(c)(3)), including tribal enterprises and educational institutions (public, private, and tribal colleges and universities), with experience providing legal assistance services to eligible individuals pursuant to federal poverty guidelines, federally-recognized Indian tribes, or tribal justice systems.

N/A

16.587 - Violence Against Women Discretionary Grants for Indian Tribal Governments

16.731 - Tribal Youth Program

16.812 - Second Chance Act Reentry Initiative

16.616 - Indian Country Alcohol and Drug Prevention

16.608 - Tribal Justice Systems

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