PRIA, Government Policy, Made Personal

Summary

Creates a Senior Policy Advisor for Culturally Specific Communities inside the Office on Violence Against Women. The advisor must guide grant decisions and contracts, help make federal policies and guidelines about domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking in culturally specific communities, advise the Director on laws and policy, help other Justice Department offices with policy and enforcement, make expert technical help available to grantees, ensure grant access for culturally specific groups, and check how grants are distributed to find barriers. The Director must hire, within 120 days after March 15, 2022, a person who has lived and worked in a culturally specific community and who has proven experience addressing domestic violence or sexual assault while working at a non-governmental organization.

Title 34, §10455

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(a)Establishment

There is established in the Office on Violence Against Women a Senior Policy Advisor for Culturally Specific Communities.

(b)Duties

The Senior Policy Advisor for Culturally Specific Communities, under the guidance and authority of the Director, shall—

(1)advise on the administration of grants related to culturally specific services and contracts with culturally specific organizations;

(2)coordinate development of Federal policy, protocols, and guidelines on matters relating to domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking in culturally specific communities;

(3)advise the Director on policies, legislation, implementation of laws, and other issues relating to domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking in culturally specific communities;

(4)provide technical assistance, coordination, and support to other offices and bureaus in the Department of Justice to develop policy and to enforce Federal laws relating to domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking in culturally specific communities;

(5)ensure that appropriate technical assistance, developed and provided by entities with expertise in culturally specific communities, is made available to grantees and potential grantees proposing to serve culturally specific communities;

(6)ensure access to grants and technical assistance for culturally specific organizations; and

(7)analyze the distribution of grant funding in order to identify barriers for culturally specific organizations.

(c)Qualifications

Not later than 120 days after March 15, 2022, the Director shall hire for the position established under subsection (a) an individual with personal, lived, and work experience from a culturally specific community, and a demonstrated history and expertise addressing domestic violence or sexual assault in a nongovernmental agency.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Effective Date

Section not effective until Oct. 1 of the first fiscal year beginning after Mar. 15, 2022, see section 4(a) of div. W of Pub. L. 117–103, set out as a note under section 6851 of Title 15, Commerce and Trade.

§10455 Senior Policy Advisor for Culturally Specific Communities

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Title 34, §10455

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