National Indian Country Training Initiative Training Announcement
Course: Accessing Grants to Strengthen Tribal Justice System Capacity
When: November 14-15, 2023
Where: Columbia, SC
Click Here to Register: https://survey.ole.justice.gov/snapwebhost/s.asp?k=169159274141
The U.S. Department of Justice's National Indian Country Training Initiative, together with the Bureau of Justice Assistance, is pleased to announce the Accessing Grants to Strengthen Tribal Justice System Capacity Workshop.
In Fiscal Year 2010, the Department of Justice (Department) launched its Coordinated Tribal Assistance Solicitation (CTAS) in direct response to concerns raised by tribal leaders regarding the Department's grant process and how it did not provide the flexibility tribes needed to address criminal justice and public safety needs in their communities. Through CTAS, federally-recognized tribes and tribal consortia were able, for the first time ever, to submit a single application for most of the Justice Department's tribal grant programs. The Department designed this comprehensive approach to save time and resources and to allow tribes and the Department to gain a better understanding of the tribes' overall public safety needs.
Since 2010, the Department of Justice awarded over 2,800 grants totaling more than $1.3 billion to improve public safety, serve victims of crime, combat violence against women and support youth programs in American Indian and Alaskan Native communities. In Fiscal Year 2022, the department awarded more than $82 million to 102 American Indian tribes, Alaska Native villages, and tribal consortia and tribal designees.
The Accessing Grants to Strengthen Tribal Justice System Capacity Workshop is designed to provide applicants from tribal communities with tools and guidance that may assist the tribe's efforts to access grant funding and other resources to improve their justice systems.
This workshop informs on the proposal/application process and offers tips to avoid common mistakes. Topics covered during the workshop include:
- Reviewing a solicitation
- Formatting a grant narrative
- Preparing an application checklist and building a writing team
- Addressing application components
- Creating a budget
- Writing goals, objectives, and deliverables/tasks
- Identifying community strengths and resource mapping
- Upon completion of this workshop, attendees will be able to create a project design of goals, objectives, and tasks to achieve the desired outcome of their proposal.
Registration deadline: September 29, 2023. Applicants will receive notification of their application status by October 6, 2023.
The Executive Office for United States Attorneys will provide reasonable accommodations to people with disabilities. Requests should be made to Heather Cumper as early as possible, preferably at least two weeks in advance of the seminar. No nominee will be excluded from a course on the basis of a disability-related accommodations request.
This training is authorized under the Government Employees Training Act.
If you have any questions regarding this training, please feel free to contact Heather Cumper at Heather.Cumper@usdoj.gov or Leslie A. Hagen at Leslie.Hagen3@usdoj.gov.
Thank you,
The CTAS Team
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