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This page presents expired funding opportunities from OVC. Use the search filters below to find specific solicitations. Click on a solicitation title to see details about the solicitation along with any resulting awards.

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OVC FY 17 Enhanced Collaborative Model to Combat Human Trafficking Competitive Solicitation

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OVC and BJA will award between $600,000 and $900,000 to law enforcement agencies and victim service providers to work collaboratively to enhance multidisciplinary human trafficking task forces that combat sex and labor trafficking of foreign nationals and U.S. citizens of all sexes and ages. Eligible applicants are law enforcement agencies and victim service providers who submit separate but coordinated proposals that outline how the funding will be used to implement the human trafficking task force specified within the application.

OVC Transfer DCR- FY 17 Enhanced Collaborative Model To Combat Human Trafficking

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OVC and BJA will award between $600,000 and $900,000 to law enforcement agencies and victim service providers to work collaboratively to enhance multidisciplinary human trafficking task forces that combat sex and labor trafficking of foreign nationals and U.S. citizens of all sexes and ages. Eligible applicants are law enforcement agencies and victim service providers who submit separate but coordinated proposals that outline how the funding will be used to implement the human trafficking task force specified within the application.

OVC FY 17 Comprehensive Services for Victims of All Forms of Human Trafficking

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OVC will make up to 13 awards of up to $750,000 to enhance the quality and quantity of services available to assist victims of all forms of human trafficking by enhancing interagency collaboration and the coordinated community response to victims of human trafficking, and by providing high-quality services that address the individual needs of trafficking victims.

OVC FY 17 Improving Outcomes for Child and Youth Victims of Human Trafficking: A Jurisdiction-wide Approach

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OVC will make up to two awards of up to $1.5 million each for states or tribes to develop, enhance, and coordinate programs and activities geared toward improving outcomes for child and youth victims of sex and labor trafficking. Applicants must identify the state or tribe’s greatest barriers to identifying and assisting child and youth victims of sex and labor trafficking and/or to investigating and prosecuting these cases, and develop a jurisdiction-wide strategy to address these challenges.

OVC FY 16 Antiterrorism and Emergency Assistance Program (AEAP) for Crime Victim Compensation and Assistance

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The Antiterrorism and Emergency Assistance Program (AEAP) is a mechanism by which the Director of OVC may award supplemental crime victim compensation and assistance to respond to an act of terrorism or mass criminal violence. The criminal act has to be of sufficient magnitude that it overwhelms the affected jurisdiction's or program's ability to respond to the event. This is a restricted solicitation because the program is intended to respond to specific cases of terrorism and mass violence. Only after OVC has consulted with an eligible organization can an application be submitted.

Vision 21: Law Enforcement and the Communities They Serve: Supporting Collective Healing in the Wake of Harm

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OVC will make one award of up to $7 million to support law enforcement agencies, crime victims, and communities by developing, implementing and assessing evidence-based and trauma-informed law enforcement response strategies, protocols, and interventions which promote community engagement and healing prior to and in the wake of police-involved shootings and other high-profile incidents of violence.

OVC FY 12 Wraparound Victim Legal Assistance Network Demonstration Project

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OVC will fund up to six sites to develop collaborative models for comprehensive, wraparound, pro bono, legal assistance networks to meet the range of legal needs of crime victims. This is a 4-year project, with sites receiving up to $400,000 for the first 15-month phase, with the potential of continuation funding for 3 additional years.

Training and Technical Assistance on Comprehensive Legal Services for Human Trafficking Victims Invitation to Apply

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OVC will continue to fund 2 providers who will provide training and technical assistance to legal services providers on the range of legal services needs of human trafficking victims. The projects must address the comprehensive legal needs of trafficking victims, including, but not limited to: immigration, family law, employment law, victims' rights, civil actions, criminal restitution, and criminal records expungement/vacatur. The projects should be national in scope, capable of providing training and support to service providers throughout the US, including the territories.

OVC FY 16 Using Telemedicine Technology to Enhance Access to Sexual Assault Forensic Exams

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OVC will make awards under two purpose areas to develop or enhance statewide telemedicine programs to deliver expert Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner guidance and support to medical professionals conducting sexual assault forensic exams in state correctional facilities, institutions of higher education, and rural and tribal communities.

OVC FY 16 Child Victims and Witnesses Going to Court: A Package of Support Materials

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OVC will award one cooperative agreement of $1 million to develop a package of resource materials to support young victims and witnesses during their participation in the court process. The applicant, working with subject matter experts and partnering with a national stakeholder group, will develop materials that can readily be used by criminal justice personnel, advocates, and others that work with young victims and witnesses.

OVC FY 16 VOCA Victim Assistance

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OVC will award each eligible state victim assistance program an annual grant to support eligible crime victim assistance programs in that state or territory. Funds under this program shall be used by the states and territories to support eligible crime victim assistance programs that provide direct services to crime victims with the following exception: states may retain up to 5 percent of their total grant for administrative and training purposes. Those applying are urged to begin in advance of the July 11, 2016, deadline.

OVC FY 16 VOCA Victim Compensation

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OVC will award each eligible state victim compensation program an annual grant equal to 60 percent of what the state spent in state-funded benefits 2 years previously, other than amounts awarded for property damage. Funds under this program shall be used by the states and territories for awards of compensation benefits to crime victims, with the following exception: states may retain up to 5 percent of their total grant for administrative and training purposes. Those applying are urged to begin in advance of the July 11, 2016, deadline.

OVC FY 16 Vision 21: National Resource Centers for Victim Research, Evaluation, and Reaching Underserved Victims

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OVC will make awards under two purpose areas to establish two national resource centers to promote practices and strategies to increase the evidence base in the victims field and promote evidence-based knowledge and tools to address crime victim needs. The main goal of these centers is to ensure that survivors, providers, government leaders, and other members of the field have access to up-to-date information on best practices, policies, victim-related research, evaluation, and victim resources. Applicants are urged to begin in advance of the July 11, 2016, deadline.

OVC FY 16 Fellowship Program

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OVC seeks fellowship proposals that further the goals of Vision 21 by supporting OVC’s efforts to provide training, technical assistance, capacity building, assessment, or strategic planning.

OVC FY 16 Comprehensive Services for Victims of Human Trafficking Letter of Invitation

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The primary goal of this program is to continue to enhance the quality and quantity of services available to assist victims of all forms of human trafficking, as defined by the Trafficking Victims Protection Act (TVPA) of 2000, as amended, by enhancing interagency collaboration and the coordinated community response to victims of human trafficking, and through the provision of high-quality services that address the individual needs of trafficking victims.

OVC FY16 Victim Assistance Professional Development Fellowship Program: Elder Abuse and Financial Exploitation Invitation to Apply

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An OVC Fellow placed in the Department of Justice Civil Division, Elder Justice Initiative, will continue to develop trainings for law enforcement, medical practitioners, and researchers regarding elder abuse and financial fraud. The Fellow will assist the Department in improving federal law enforcement responses to victims of elder abuse and financial fraud.

Purpose Area 2: Rural Networks Training and Technical Assistance

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This solicitation shall seek applicants for two distinct purpose areas: (1) Purpose Area 1: four rural organizations that will develop comprehensive, wraparound, pro bono legal assistance networks to meet the range of legal needs of crime victims in rural states or areas; and (2) Purpose Area 2: one organization that will provide intensive technical assistance to the four grantees funded to establish the rural legal assistance networks.

OVC FY 16 Vision 21: Legal Assistance Networks Invitation to Apply

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The Legal Assistance Network Demonstration Project supports the development of models for networks that collaboratively provide free, comprehensive, holistic legal assistance to victims to address the range of legal needs that may arise in the wake of victimization.

OVC FY 16 Evidence Based Approach to Addressing Vicarious Trauma in Victim Assistance, Law Enforcement, and Other First Responders Invitation to Apply

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This funding will enable Northeastern University to finalize and deliver an online Vicarious Trauma Toolkit for victim assistance professionals, law enforcement personnel, and other first responders. The Toolkit based on a nationwide comprehensive assessment of policies, practices, procedures, and protocols that demonstrate effectiveness in understanding and addressing vicarious trauma based has been in development and pilot testing for nearly two years. This final funding award will ensure that the Toolkit is successfully delivered to the field.

OVC FY 16 Improving Outcomes for Child and Youth Victims of Human Trafficking: A Jurisdiction-wide Approach

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OVC will make up to two awards of amounts between $1 million and $3 million to develop, enhance, and coordinate programs and activities geared toward improving outcomes for child and youth victims of sex and labor trafficking. The purpose of this grant is to identify a state or federally recognized Indian tribe’s greatest challenge in addressing trafficking of children and youth and to improve jurisdiction-wide coordination and multidisciplinary collaboration to address human trafficking involving children and youth. Applicants are urged to begin in advance of the June 29, 2016, deadline.

OVC FY 16 Project Beacon: Increasing Services for Urban American Indian and Alaska Native Victims of Sex Trafficking

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OVC will make up to three awards up to $450,000 each to eligible applicants whose primary mission is to provide services and assistance to American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) individuals who reside in urban population centers. Award recipients will use their funding to develop their organizational capacity to provide direct services to AI/AN victims of sex trafficking. Applicants are urged to begin in advance of the June 21, 2016, deadline.