Friday, May 9, 2025
5/9/2025
Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate Domestic Violence & Sexual Assault Program - The Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate (SWO) Domestic Violence Prevention Program is a central part of our Behavior Health Initiative as documented in the SWO 2021-2025 Health Plan. Our Behavioral Health Initative proposes to expand and enhance capacity by integrating Domestic and Sexual Violence Prevention, Advocacy, and Coordinated Community Responses. We will accomplish these goals and objectives by instituting a traditional cultural and spiritual approach through professional training and implementation of cultural based activities. Our Behavioral Health department is the lead agency for this Initiative and the proposed scope of work, its objectives and activities will be accomplished through the Behavioral Health Program and Interagency Team partnerships to expand crisis intervention, counseling, advocacy, behavioral health and case management services to victims of domestic and sexual violence, as well as community education and prevention activities. Establishing mental health services, to augment the substance use disorder treatment services SWO has operated since 1969, is in accordance with the SWO Health Plan 2021-2025 adopted by Tribal Council in November 2021. This Plan identifies need for more behavioral health services, including domestic violence and adverse childhood experiences as its #1 priority. The SWO Behavioral Health Program’s Project Coordinator/Behavioral Health Specialist and Case Manager, employed by this grant are necessary to ensure accomplishment of the required objectives, collect data, and report progress in the DVP portal using the Local Data Collection Plan. The project will work with our Tribal Epidemiology Center to evaluate the proposed project progress and its efficacy. The proposed project will enhance the domestic violence services program by offering a comprehensive set of services to assist victims and their families. We intend to work with our team programs to provide community information on human trafficking and the phenomenon of missing and murdered community members through education and outreach activities. We will coordinate services with other programs and coalitions currently providing domestic violence, sexual assault, and victim assistance, human trafficking and missing and murdered members in our community and to establish a network with clear protocols for communication and collaboration. Our DVP as central to the SWO Behavioral Health Program will work closely with other tribal government programs/departments/projects currently providing services to the tribal members in other areas including the Sexual Assault Services (SAS) program; Behavioral Health Services; other domestic violence and sexual assault coalitions on or near the reservation; and to establish an advisory committee to include adult victims from the community who will be served by the project. This will ensure program work is meeting the needs of our community. DVP funding will support a five-year project designed to access all current resources that are available through other tribal programs and/or external supportive agencies to provide expanded crisis intervention, counseling, advocacy, behavioral health and case management services to victims of domestic and sexual violence through fostering of coalitions and networks to improve coordination and collaboration among service providers, health care providers, and other responders, and development of coordinated community response policies and procedures.
HHS’ Tracking Accountability in Government Grants System (TAGGS) website provides access to detailed descriptions of grants, loans, aggregated direct payments and other types of financial assistance awarded by the HHS Operating Divisions (OPDIVs) and the Office of the Secretary Staff Divisions (STAFFDIVs).