---
kind: "section"
citation: "34 U.S.C. § 10455"
title: "34"
title_heading: "Crime Control and Law Enforcement"
number: "10455"
heading: "Senior Policy Advisor for Culturally Specific Communities"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/34/10455"
units:
  - "Subtitle I — Comprehensive Acts"
  - "Chapter 101 — Justice System Improvement"
  - "Subchapter XIX — Grants to Combat Violent Crimes Against Women"
---

# §10455. Senior Policy Advisor for Culturally Specific Communities

- (a) **Establishment—** There is established in the Office on Violence Against Women a Senior Policy Advisor for [Culturally Specific](/usc/34/12291.md?p=a-8) Communities.
- (b) **Duties—** The Senior Policy Advisor for [Culturally Specific](/usc/34/12291.md?p=a-8) Communities, under the guidance and authority of the Director, shall—
  - (1) advise on the administration of grants related to [culturally specific services](/usc/34/12291.md?p=a-9) and contracts with [culturally specific](/usc/34/12291.md?p=a-8) organizations;
  - (2) coordinate development of Federal policy, protocols, and guidelines on matters relating to [domestic violence](/usc/34/12291.md?p=a-12), [dating violence](/usc/34/12291.md?p=a-11), [sexual assault](/usc/34/12291.md?p=a-35), and [stalking](/usc/34/12291.md?p=a-36) in [culturally specific](/usc/34/12291.md?p=a-8) communities;
  - (3) advise the Director on policies, legislation, implementation of laws, and other issues relating to [domestic violence](/usc/34/12291.md?p=a-12), [dating violence](/usc/34/12291.md?p=a-11), [sexual assault](/usc/34/12291.md?p=a-35), and [stalking](/usc/34/12291.md?p=a-36) in [culturally specific](/usc/34/12291.md?p=a-8) 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](/usc/34/12291.md?p=a-12), [dating violence](/usc/34/12291.md?p=a-11), [sexual assault](/usc/34/12291.md?p=a-35), and [stalking](/usc/34/12291.md?p=a-36) in [culturally specific](/usc/34/12291.md?p=a-8) communities;
  - (5) ensure that appropriate technical assistance, developed and provided by entities with expertise in [culturally specific](/usc/34/12291.md?p=a-8) communities, is made available to grantees and potential grantees proposing to serve [culturally specific](/usc/34/12291.md?p=a-8) communities;
  - (6) ensure access to grants and technical assistance for [culturally specific](/usc/34/12291.md?p=a-8) organizations; and
  - (7) analyze the distribution of grant funding in order to identify barriers for [culturally specific](/usc/34/12291.md?p=a-8) organizations.
- (c) **Qualifications—** Not later than 120 days after March 15, 2022, the Director shall hire for the position established under [subsection (a)](#a) an individual with personal, lived, and work experience from a [culturally specific](/usc/34/12291.md?p=a-8) community, and a demonstrated history and expertise addressing [domestic violence](/usc/34/12291.md?p=a-12) or [sexual assault](/usc/34/12291.md?p=a-35) in a nongovernmental agency.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 90–351, title I, § 2018, as added Pub. L. 117–103, div. W, title IX, § 902, Mar. 15, 2022, 136 Stat. 911.)

## Notes

### 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.