Attorney General's Defending Childhood Initiative

OJJDP's State and Community Development Awards program was established to provide grants and cooperative agreements to organizations that OJJDP has selected for funds in prior years. This program has been authorized by an Act appropriating funds for the Department of Justice.

The Attorney General's Children Exposed to Violence Demonstration Program will develop and support comprehensive community-based strategic planning and implementation efforts to prevent and reduce the impact of children's exposure to violence in their homes, schools, and communities.

The Chippewa Cree Tribe's Rocky Boy's Children Exposed to Violence Project (RBCEVP) will continue to implement a comprehensive strategic plan providing an effective continuum of care and services for children and their families exposed to violence on the Rocky Boy's Indian Reservation in north central Montana. The purpose of the RBCEVP is to address the problems associated with children exposed to violence for a significant number (approximately 400) of children, ages 0-17, who reside at Rocky Boy.

The RBCEVP aims to 1) Reduce children's exposure to violence by maintaining a trauma-informed systems response through the prevention of bullying, family violence prevention, and teen-dating violence; 2) Continue advocacy and partnerships that promote cultural resilience and eliminate risk factors affecting children, and; 3) Reduce incidences of domestic violence and sexual assault by resuming advocacy work, improving the systemic response protocols for domestic violence and sexual asault, and ensuring safety measures are available to community members. NCA/NCF

OJJDP's State and Community Development Awards program was established to provide grants and cooperative agreements to organizations that OJJDP has selected for funds in prior years. This program has been authorized by an Act appropriating funds for the Department of Justice. The Attorney General's Children Exposed to Violence Demonstration Program develops and supports comprehensive community-based strategic planning and implementation efforts to prevent and reduce the impact of children's exposure to violence in their homes, schools, and communities.

The Chippewa Cree Tribe's Rocky Boy's Children Exposed to Violence Project (RBCEVP) will utilize FY14 State and Community Development Invited Award funds to continue to implement a comprehensive strategic plan providing an effective continuum of care and services for children and their families exposed to violence on the Rocky Boy's Indian Reservation in north central Montana. The purpose of the RBCEVP is to address the problems associated with children exposed to violence for a significant number of children, ages 0-17, who reside at Rocky Boy. The RBCEVP aims to: 1) Reduce children's exposure to violence by maintaining a culturally specific and trauma-informed systems response through the prevention of bullying, family violence prevention, and teen-dating violence; 2) Continue advocacy and partnerships that promote cultural resilience and eliminate risk factors affecting children; and 3) Reduce incidences of domestic violence and sexual assault by resuming advocacy work, improving the systemic response protocols for domestic violence and sexual assault, and ensuring safety measures are available to community members. NCA/NCF