Child Sexual Exploitation OVC Fellowship Program for Michelle Deanee' Johnson

OVC awards fellowships to individuals to work with OVC on specific topics or purpose areas to enhance the efforts of OVC to facilitate the understanding, development, or enhancement of innovative programs, models, practices, and protocols that serve crime victims. Fellowships also foster the professional development of practitioners in the victim assistance field by providing them an opportunity to work closely with federal staff, contractors, grantees, and a myriad of public and private organizations in Washington, DC, and throughout the Nation. The goal of the Child Sexual Exploitation Fellowship is to help OVC improve responses and services to victims of child sexual exploitation in the United States. The fellow will work under the direction of OVC staff and management to develop a plan and carry out this goal and will work closely with other government agencies (including DOJ’s Committee on the National Strategy for Child Exploitation Prevention and Interdiction), victim assistance providers, allied professionals, and other key stakeholders to facilitate communication and collaboration. The Fellow will help OVC identify practical ways to use available programmatic, training, and technical assistance resources to best support victims of CSE. The fellow will help identify ways to improve existing efforts when possible (e.g., existing programs, trainings, models, practices, protocols) and identify gaps and ways to fill them. NCA/NCF

OVC awards fellowships to individuals to work with OVC on specific topics or purpose areas to enhance the efforts of OVC to facilitate the understanding, development, or enhancement of innovative programs, models, practices, and protocols that serve crime victims. Fellowships also foster the professional development of practitioners in the victim assistance field by providing them an opportunity to work closely with federal staff, contractors, grantees, and a myriad of public and private organizations in Washington, DC, and throughout the Nation.

The goal of the Child Sexual Exploitation (CSE) and Polyvictimization Fellowship is to help OVC improve responses and services to victims of CSE in the United States. During the third and final year of the fellowship, the fellow will work to plan and carry out this goal and facilitate collaboration among stakeholders and practitioners in the field. The fellow will also enhance the utility of OVC resources for governmental agencies and the victim assistance field; support and promote the dissemination of OVC resources and tools to improve the victim services field's ability to address crime victims' needs; and work with OVC as well as OVC training and technical assistance staff to identify practical ways to enhance OVC efforts through evidence-based or evidence-informed practices, innovative approaches, and address gaps and challenges in serving crime victims. NCA/NCF