Domestic Violence Prevention Initiative (DVPI)
Indian Health Service, Office of Clinical and Preventive Services
A congressionally mandated IHS grant program funding domestic and sexual violence prevention and treatment across Indian Country: victim advocacy, intervention, case coordination, policy development, community response teams, sexual assault examiner programs and community and school education. IHS specifies evidence-based and practice-based models that are culturally appropriate and community-driven, so funded projects carry real evaluation and practice-research work.
- Indicative award
- Amount not published (varies by call)The IHS DVPI page reports 41 grants awarded to tribes, tribal organizations and UIOs but publishes no per-award amount or program total. No figure asserted.
- Timing
- Periodic callsNo specific published date recorded. This funder publishes a cycle rather than a date, and this database does not invent one.IHS competes DVPI in multi-year funding cycles (the page references a 2015-2021 cycle) rather than on a fixed annual date. The page carries no current cycle dates; check the IHS Division of Grants Management listing for the active announcement.
- Who can apply
- Community organisation, Practitioner, Any faculty rank
- Eligibility
- Eligible applicants are tribes, tribal organizations and Urban Indian Organizations. A university is not an eligible applicant; a social work researcher joins as an evaluation partner or subrecipient named in a tribal or UIO application, on terms the tribe sets.
- SSWR clusters
- Topics
- domestic violence · sexual assault · victim advocacy · culturally grounded prevention · community response
- Apply at
- https://www.ihs.gov/dvpi/
- This entry
- Curated by the working group. Written 2026-08-07. The funder link has not yet been machine-checked.
Amounts and dates on this page are indicative and are maintained by people rather than scraped. Funders change ceilings, windows and eligibility without notice; confirm all details at the source above before applying.
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- Grantmaking for gender justice by and for young peopleThird Wave Fund$5k–$50k · Rolling / open
- Grants to end domestic violence and build health equityBlue Shield of California Foundation$25k–$300k · Periodic calls
- FY26 Traumatic Brain Injury and Psychological Health Research Program (TBIPHRP) Health Services Research AwardU.S. Department of Defense — Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs (CDMRP), Defense Health Agencyup to $4M · Annual cycle · May, Sep, Oct
- NIJ FY 2026 Research and Evaluation of Services for Victims of CrimeNational Institute of Justice (with the Office for Victims of Crime), U.S. Department of Justiceup to $1.5M · Annual cycle · Jun, Jul, Aug
- OVC FY 2026 Tribal Victim Services Set-Aside Formula ProgramOffice for Victims of Crime, U.S. Department of Justiceup to $650k · By invitation · Jun, Jul, Aug