Tribal Civil and Criminal Legal Assistance Grants, Training and Technical Assistance

Program goal(s): Improve civil and criminal legal services.
Program goal(s) description: Build and enhance capacity and improve delivery of civil and criminal legal services to individuals and tribes, as well as develop policies that improve access to tribal justice systems; and provide training and technical assistance for development and enhancement of tribal justice systems.
Program objective(s) name: Improve prosecution and defense capacity and address gaps in tribal civil and criminal legal assistance.
Program objective(s) description: Identify needs and deliver customized services, including trial skills training to grantees; Build additional prosecution capacity to reflect current authorities (i.e., TLOA and VAWA); Build additional holistic defense capacity for defendants in tribal courts and in other justice systems and reduce collateral consequences, fees, and penalties; Review, identify and summarize gaps in knowledge, research, and data collection to inform tribal civil and criminal legal assistance needs.

All final award decisions will be made by the Assistant Attorney General, unless a statute explicitly authorizes award decisions by another official or there is written delegation of authority to another official. For successful applicants, JustGrants will send a system-generated email to the Application Submitter, Authorized Representative, and Entity Administrator with information on accessing their official award package in JustGrants. The award package will include key information (such as funding amount and period of performance) as well as award conditions that must be followed. The Authorized Representative for the entity should accept or decline the award within 45 days of the notification.

The review procedure for applications is specified in the notice of funding opportunity (NOFO) and generally includes eligibility and responsiveness, merit, programmatic, budget, and risk reviews.