Expired Funding Opportunities

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.

This cooperative agreement will support the development of a comprehensive guide for the crime victims’ advocacy field to increase public awareness of crime victim issues nationwide during National Crime Victims’ Rights Week in April 2023, and throughout the year, and begin preparations for 2024.

OVC's National Center for Culturally Responsive Victim Services (NCCRVS) provides dedicating training and technical assistance resources to increase access to services and compensation for crime victims that have been historically underserved, marginalized, and adversely affected by inequality, including communities of color. A non-competitive award will be issued to the newly established NCCRVS to enable the Center to offer microgrants to victim-serving organizations run by and for historically underserved communities.

The Advancing Hospital-Based Victim Services (AHVS) Initiative enhances linkages between the victim field and hospitals by promoting multidisciplinary, victim-centered, and trauma-informed approaches to providing victim services. A non-competitive award will be issued to the current AHVS training and technical assistance (TTA) provider, the Health Alliance for Violence Prevention (HAVI), to support their continued provision of TA to the four OVC-funded FY 2021 sites and the additional sites funded under the FY 2022 AHVS competitive solicitation.

This program seeks to enhance states’ use of technology for the purpose of providing improved service to crime victims (under Purpose Area 1) and to support Jabara-Heyer No HATE Act state-run hate crime reporting hotlines (under Purpose Area 2).

This project will complete and expand on the Needs Assessment surveys, interviews, analyses, and related activities that the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) initiated in the FY 2017 National Mass Violence Victimization Resource Center award. Activities were not completed during that award though interim/preliminary analysis was conducted on some community sites and a number or direct victims.

The individual who is awarded funding under this program will work to—

• identify barriers that prevent all victims of crime, including victims of color, from accessing and receiving compensation,
• improve support and resources for state victim compensation programs, and
• promote equity in access to and receipt of compensation funding.

The goal of this solicitation is for the award recipient to implement, manage, and sustain the iMPRoVE project for victim service providers. The iMPRoVE project provides an assessment survey tool for victim service providers to be able to measure outcomes and assess the effectiveness and quality of services provided to their clients.