Children's Justice Act Partnerships for Indian Communities

Program goal(s) name: Improve handling of child abuse and neglect cases in Indian communities. Program goal(s) description: Provide funding to help American Indian and Alaska Native communities improve the investigation, prosecution, and handling of cases of criminal child abuse and neglect (particularly child sexual abuse cases) in a manner that lessens trauma for child victims. Program objective(s) name: Support criminal investigations and prosecutions of child abuse cases and provide services to victims. Program objective description: Establish or enhance a legal system to conduct criminal investigation and prosecution of child abuse cases; provide emergency and crisis intervention services to aid child abuse victims and their family members in recovering from abuse and neglect; and provide trauma-informed support services to criminal child abuse victims and their non-offending family members.