34 U.S.C. § 20124 — Enhancing culturally specific services for victims of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking

(a) Establishment — (1) The Attorney General, through the Director of the Office on Violence Against Women, must take 15 percent of the money appropriated under the program in paragraph (2)(A) and 5 percent of the money under the programs in paragraph (2)(B) through (E), and combine them into a new grant program to boost culturally specific services for victims of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking. The Director runs this new program, and the source programs' usual rules do not apply to it. (2) The source programs are: (A) Grants to Encourage Arrest Policies and Enforcement of Protection Orders (section 10461); (B) Legal Assistance for Victims (section 20121); (C) Rural Domestic Violence, Dating Violence, Sexual Assault, Stalking, and Child Abuse Enforcement Assistance (section 12341); (D) Enhanced Training and Services to End Violence Against Women Later in Life (section 14041a of title 42); and (E) Education, Training, and Enhanced Services to End Violence Against and Abuse of Women with Disabilities (section 20122). (3) Congress also authorizes an extra $25,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2023 through 2027. (4)(A) At least 40 percent of this program's funds must go to programs or projects that meaningfully address sexual assault outside intimate-partner relationships. (B) If not enough qualified applications for that purpose come in, the Director may instead use some of that money for enhanced technical assistance on non-intimate-partner sexual assault, despite section 12291(b)(11). (b) Purpose of program and grants — (1) The program's general goals are (A) keeping and copying successful culturally specific community-based services, and (B) developing new culturally specific strategies for victims who face obstacles using traditional services. (2) The Director must give grants to community-based programs to enhance these culturally specific services, supporting efforts such as: (A) working with governments and social-service agencies on effective strategies; (B) building communities' capacity to support these victims and their families; (C) training criminal-justice workers on culturally specific responses; (D) improving traditional services through the leadership of culturally specific programs; (E) building culturally specific education and prevention strategies with the community; (F) running culturally specific programs for children exposed to this violence; (G) providing culturally specific safety, economic, housing, and workplace resources, including emergency help; or (H) examining how culture affects victimization and healing. (3) The Director must give technical assistance and training to grantees, through agreements with organizations that have demonstrated expertise in culturally specific services — at least one expert mainly in domestic violence services, and at least one expert mainly in non-intimate-partner sexual assault services. (c) Eligible entities — (1) Community-based programs whose main purpose is providing culturally specific services to these victims, and (2) community-based programs providing such services that partner with a program experienced in serving these victims, are eligible. (d) Reporting — The Director must issue a report every two years on how the funding was distributed, progress in expanding services, and the culturally specific programs, strategies, and training developed. (e) Evaluation — The Director must contract with an entity expert in culturally accessible services to evaluate the programs funded here. (f) Non-exclusivity — Nothing here stops culturally specific community-based programs from also applying for other grant programs under this Act. (g) Definitions and grant conditions — The definitions and grant conditions in section 12291 of this title apply here.