Expired Funding Opportunities

OVC will award each eligible state and territory victim assistance program an annual grant to support eligible crime victim assistance programs in that state or territory. All states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, American Samoa, Guam, and the Northern Mariana Islands are eligible to receive an annual VOCA victim assistance formula grant.

OVC will award each eligible state and territory victim compensation program an annual grant equal to 75 percent of the amount the program awarded in state-funded victim compensation payments during the fiscal year 2 years prior to the present fiscal year, other than amounts awarded for property damage.

The purpose of this program is to develop, expand, and/or strengthen funded organizations so they can provide housing and associated support services to victims of human trafficking.

This program will support two purpose areas: PA 1) the development and/or enhancement of Enhanced Multi-disciplinary Teams (E-MDT) to strengthen the capacity and enhance these MDTs to better identify and respond to cases of elder financial exploitation and abuse and more comprehensively serve and support older victims and PA 2) Elder MDT Training and Technical Assistance (TA). Financial exploitation-focused E-MDTs are designed to improve the case review process and systems that touch the case or assist the victim.

OVC seeks to support the development or enhancement of multidisciplinary teams to better identify and respond to cases of abuse of older adults and more comprehensively serve and support older victims of financial exploitation and other forms of elder abuse. The program will also support a National Elder Abuse Training and Technical Assistance Center.

The Fellow awarded under this program will work collaboratively with OVC and the anti-trafficking field in identifying and understanding human trafficking issues and evidence-informed practices.

OVC seeks applications that demonstrate innovative strategies to create, expand, or enhance the use of technology to interact directly with crime victims or to provide information, referrals, crisis assistance, and long-term help.

This program supports prevention and early intervention services for girls who are at-risk of, or are victims of, sex and/or labor trafficking. Services may be provided to girls and young women up to and including age 25.

This program seeks to support OVC’s anti-trafficking grantees and other stakeholders through the provision of training and technical assistance and the development of tools and resources.

The purpose of this program is to develop, expand, or strengthen victim service programs for victims of human trafficking.

The purpose of this program is to develop, expand, or strengthen a multidisciplinary approach to better respond to human trafficking. This collaborative approach must include a range of partners that work together to provide access to a diverse set of services for trafficking victims and to seek justice on their behalf.

In FY 22, National Organization for Victim Assistance (NOVA) received an award from the Office for Victims of Crime (OVC) under the solicitation entitled Field-Generated Solicitation: Increasing Options and Expanding Access for Victims of Crime to create the Youth Advocate Leadership Corps pilot program comprised of about 15 college students representing intersecting marginalized communities, including racially marginalized, indigenous, LGBTQIA+, disabled, and immigrant communities, from five geographically diverse communities to participate in a paid victim advocate fellowship program.

This program seeks to enhance or expand the capacity of national hotlines that are essential for providing crisis intervention services, safety planning, information, referrals, and resources for victims of crime.

OVC seeks to establish or expand sexual assault examination programs that focus on increasing the number and availability of SANEs/SAFEs, expanding access to sexual assault forensic examinations, and improving the quality of post-sexual assault care using a hospital-based, community-based, campus-based, or corrections-based approach.

OVC seeks to fund a technical assistance provider to assist and support communities across the country with establishing peer-to-peer support for crime survivors and provide capacity building technical assistance for subgrantees.

OVC seeks to maintain a Center to identify and develop evidence-based best practices that address the comprehensive needs of victims of mass violence and those who engage with them, with an emphasis on addressing mental- and behavioral-health issues.

This program will provide funding for shelter and transitional housing and other assistance to victims of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, or stalking and their companion animals.

This program intends to improve outcomes for children and youth who are victims of human trafficking by—

• integrating human trafficking policy and programming at the state or Tribal level; and
• encouraging coordinated, multidisciplinary, and statewide approaches to serving trafficked youth.

OVC seeks applications to support projects designated for funding in the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023 (Public Law 117-328) to improve the functioning of the criminal justice system, to prevent or combat juvenile delinquency, and to assist victims of crime (other than compensation).

The primary goal of this program is to provide grants for state agencies to establish and run state-run hate crime reporting hotlines to facilitate significantly increased reporting of hate crimes data, and to ensure that victims and witnesses are connected to law enforcement and local support services as needed.

Administrative Funding Adjustment to Previously Funded FY2019 VOCA Victim Compensation award.

Administrative Funding Adjustment to Previously Funded FY2020 VOCA Victim Compensation

Authorized by the Department of Justice Appropriations Act, 2022 the Congressionally Mandated Awards Program provides Byrne Discretionary grant funding to prevent crime, improve the criminal justice system, provide victim services, and other related activities.