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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.
OVC FY 15 Specialized Services for Victims of Human Trafficking Competitive Solicitation
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OVC will make up to nine awards of up to $600,000 to enhance the quality and quantity of specialized services available to assist victims of human trafficking, including services for underserved victims of human trafficking such as American Indians and/or Alaska Natives or individuals who identify as straight, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, or questioning. Funding will also support efforts to increase the capacity of communities to respond to human trafficking victims through the development of interagency partnerships, professional training, and public awareness activities.
OVC FY 15 Evidence-Based Approach to Addressing Vicarious Trauma in VA, LE and Other First Responders Invitational Letter
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The Evidence-Based Approach to Understanding and Addressing Vicarious Trauma in Victim Assistance Professionals, Law Enforcement Officers and Other First Responders (AVT) project is an effort to understand and address vicarious traumatic stress in victim assistance professionals, law enforcement personnel and other first responders. In Phase One, the grantee is tasked with conducting a comprehensive assessment of existing polices, practices, procedures, and protocols that demonstrate effectiveness in understanding and addressing trauma.
OVC FY 15 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 develop and 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 this funding will be used to implement the human trafficking task force specified within the application.
OVC FY 15 Linking Systems of Care for Children and Youth Invitational Letter
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The Office for Victims of Crime (OVC) launched its Vision 21: Linking Systems of Care Initiative in FY 2014 in response to recommendations from its Vision 21: Transforming Victim Services Final Report (Vision 21) and the final report released by the Attorney General's National Task Force on Children Exposed to Violence. Recommendations in both reports aim to improve youth outcomes by addressing the enduring issue of child and youth victimization. Victimization, left unaddressed, can have serious, long-lasting consequences for children's physical and mental health.
OVC FY 15 Vision 21: Linking Systems of Care for Children and Youth Technical Assistance Project Invitational Letter
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This solicitation will provide training and technical assistance resources to support state-level demonstration projects to address the enduring issue of child and youth victimization. Victimization, left unaddressed, can have serious, long-lasting consequences for childrenâs physical and mental health. Research demonstrates that trauma left untreated may manifest into a range of physical, emotional, and behavioral problems.
OVC FY 15 2016 NCVRW Resource Guide Competitive Solicitation
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OVC will award one cooperative agreement of up to $300,000 to conceptualize, develop, and produce a comprehensive kit that will serve as a resource for the victim services field to support efforts to heighten public awareness of crime victim issues nationwide during National Crime Victims’ Rights Week in April 2016, and throughout the year. Eligible applicants are nonprofit organizations, including tribal nonprofit organizations, faith and community-based organizations, and public agencies. Those applying are urged to begin in advance of the April 29, 2015, deadline.
OVC FY 15 CTAS Purpose Area 6: Children's Justice Act Partnerships for Indian Communities Program
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Develop, establish, and operate programs that: 1) provide comprehensive and coordinated multidisciplinary responses to child abuse victims and their families, and 2) provide trauma-informed, culturally competent holistic services to child abuse victims and their families.
OVC FY 15 CTAS Purpose Area 7: Comprehensive Tribal Victim Assistance Program
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Develop or enhance and sustain a comprehensive victim assistance program that 1) provides a coordinated collaborative multidisciplinary response to victims of crime, their families, and the community and 2) provides trauma-informed, culturally competent holistic services to victims of crime, their families, and the community.
OVC FY 14 VOCA Victim Compensation Formula
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OVC FY 14 Vision 21 Tribal Community Wellness Centers: Serving Crime Victims' Needs
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OVC FY 14 Federal International and Tribal Non-Competitive Discretionary Grant Programs
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OVC FY 14 Vision 21 Victim Legal Assistance Networks
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OVC will make up to four awards to develop comprehensive, collaborative networks to provide holistic legal assistance to crime victims. Up to three awards of up to $500,000 each will be made to implement comprehensive victim legal assistance networks at a statewide, regional, or local level. Eligible applicants are limited to states that administer Victim of Crime Act (VOCA) victim assistance formula grants. VOCA agencies in states that currently have demonstration sites under the Wraparound Victim Legal Assistance Network Demonstration Project are not eligible to apply.
OVC FY 14 Service, Support and Justice: A Strategy to Enhance Law Enforcement Response to Victims
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OVC will make three awards of up to $100,000 each to implement the Enhancing Law Enforcement Response to Victims Strategy (ELERV) to improve agencies’ response to victims of crime, with a strong focus on reaching and serving underserved and unserved victims in the community. In the first phase of this project, successful applicants will conduct a comprehensive needs assessment in their jurisdiction and develop a plan for implementing the ELERV Strategy in the subsequent three project phases.
OVC FY 14 SART Toolkit 2.0
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OVC will make one award up to $300,000 to update the SART Toolkit: Resources for Sexual Assault Response Team (SART Toolkit). The purpose of this competitive program is to examine the current SART Toolkit; identify, collect, assess, and vet new materials and resources; and develop the most recent, relevant, and evidence-based information and practices available to the field into a new Toolkit. Deadline: June 9, 2014.
OVC FY 14 Tribal Victim Assistance Professional Development Fellowship Program
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OVC will award one fellowship of $200,000 to undertake activities on issues emanating from the Vision 21 Final Report that relate to the need for reaching and serving American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) victim populations.
OVC FY 14 Vision 21: Linking Systems of Care for Children and Youth Technical Assistance Project
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OVC will award one cooperative agreement of up to $500,000 to provide training and technical assistance to improve state responses to child and youth victims and their families and caregivers. The award recipient will assist participating state demonstration sites in establishing a network of stakeholders, designing and implementing a gap analysis/needs assessment, and develop a strategy to identify, intervene, and treat child and youth victims across systems. The project will be conducted in two phases. This solicitation is for Phase 1 funding only.
OVC FY 14 Vision 21: Building State Technology Capacity
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OVC anticipates that it will make an unspecified number of awards totaling approximately $2,250,000 to Victims of Crime Act (VOCA) Formula State Administrating Agencies that identify technological improvements to 1) enhance their current systems, 2) develop new systems to increase access to technology, 3) increase victims' access to resources, or 4) improve the accuracy of administrative reporting.
OVC FY 14 Vision 21: Linking Systems of Care for Children and Youth State Demonstration Project
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OVC will make up to two awards of up to $500,000 each to state-level demonstration sites to develop a consistent, coordinated response to child and youth victims and their families and caregivers that addresses the presenting issues and full range of victim needs. The project will be conducted in two phases. This solicitation is for Phase 1 funding only. During the Phase 1 planning process, participating states will work with a network of stakeholders to review the existing policies and protocols of the partnering agencies to identify strengths and gaps in services.
OVC FY 14 Vision 21 Victim Services Mobile Application
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OVC will make two awards of up to $250,000 each to enhance public awareness, outreach, and education by developing two distinct mobile applications (apps)—one with a national focus and another with a specific state, tribal, or local jurisdictional focus—to serve crime victims, their families, victim service providers, and allied professionals. These mobile apps will assist the target audience(s) by using technology to efficiently navigate the criminal justice system and to connect end users with victim-centered resources and services.
OVC FY 14 Vision 21: Using Technology to Expand National and International Access to Victim Services
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This competitive program will make up to 10 awards of $150,000 to $750,000 each to support projects that propose to use technology creatively to provide outreach and direct assistance to victims, particularly those who have never been served or for whom services are not readily available, nationally and/or internationally (for Americans abroad).
OVC FY 14 National Training and Program Development Non-Competitive Discretionary Grant Programs
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OVC FY 14 Services for Victims of Human Trafficking
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OVC will make awards ranging from $200,000 to $500,000 to organizations with a demonstrated history of providing either comprehensive or specialized services for victims of human trafficking within the United States. Funding also will support efforts to increase interagency collaboration and the coordinated community response to victims of human trafficking. OVC intends to dedicate a portion of the funding for specialized services for American Indian and/or Alaskan Native victims of human trafficking. Deadline: May 15, 2014.
OVC FY 14 Victim Assistance Professional Development Program-Vision 21 Legal Assistance Fellowship
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This competitive solicitation will fund one fellowship of up to $140,000 to undertake activities on issues emanating from the findings and recommendations in the Vision 21: Transforming Victim Services Final Report. The Vision 21 Legal Assistance Fellow will work on a range of issues and efforts to build capacity for the provision of free legal assistance to victims of crime, and will support OVC’s work to develop evidence-based training, technical assistance, and models for programs and practices that build organizational and service provider capacity in this area.
OVC FY 13 National Center for Missing and Exploited Children Victim Reunification Travel Program
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OVC FY 13 An Evidence-Based Approach to Understanding and Addressing Vicarious Trauma in Victim Assistance Professionals, Law Enforcement Officers and Other First Responders
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One cooperative agreement of $1,250,000 will be awarded to support the examination, assessment, identification, and pilot testing of evidence-based policies, practices, procedures, and protocols designed to facilitate an understanding of and comprehensive approach to addressing vicarious (or secondary) traumatic stress in victim assistance professionals, law enforcement personnel, and other first responders who are subject to the impact of traumatic stress due to large-scale incidents of criminal mass violence or a series of exposures to an accumulation of traumatizing incidents.