Expired Funding Opportunities

The Department of Justice has a cooperative agreement with the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) to track children kidnapped by their non-custodial parent and taken across international borders and to assist the left-behind parents obtain lawful custody under the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of Child Abduction. To assist in this effort, OVC provides funding to NCMEC to assist left-behind parents with inadequate resources in traveling abroad to participate in Hague hearings and/or accompany their children back to the United States.

Funding will support a Technical Assistance (TA) provider to provide ongoing, customized technical assistance to Purpose Area 1 award recipients based on the needs of the program and community.

This program will support a single award to manage both a subaward program for seven new law enforcement-based victim service (LEV) program sites and training and technical assistance for 73 OVC-funded existing and the 7 new LEV sites. The program will increase the number of law enforcement agencies with victim service programs and will help build the capacity of these LEV programs to expand the availability of victim services that are trauma-informed and survivor-centered.

OVC seeks applications (1) to establish state-run hate crime reporting hotlines designed to assist victims who might otherwise be reluctant to report hate crimes; and 2) to enhance the quality of services and referrals for hotline users by providing specialized training and technical assistance to all award recipients under this program.

The Advancing Hospital-Based Victim Services (AHVS) Initiative promotes multidisciplinary, victim-centered, and trauma-informed approaches that provide and expand supports for victims. 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 OVC-funded AHVS programs from FY 2021 and FY 2022 and additional programs funded under the FY 2022 Byrne Discretionary Community Project Funding solicitation.

The project’s goals are to expand professional organization members’ knowledge and understanding of crime victim issues and what it means to be trauma-informed and trauma-sensitive, and encourage constituents who may come into contact with family members of homicide victims in their work to integrate this information into their daily practices.

OVC seeks qualified applicants to provide a wide variety of training and technical assistance support to Victims of Crime Act (VOCA) Victim Assistance and Compensation Administrators and their subrecipients.

The goal of this initiative is to support children, youth, and families who have suffered victimizations as a result of a family member’s or caregiver’s substance use disorder by recruiting, training, and certifying peer recovery coaches who have lived experience. The program will result in a peer recovery coach paraprofessional program.

OVC seeks to develop a workforce of victim service providers to serve American Indian and Alaska Native victims in locations that are remote and where positions are hard to fill. This will be accomplished by engaging interested individuals, including but not limited to, college and university students, who are from, live, and/or attend school in these areas.

Tribal applicants whose OVC FY 2023 Tribal Victim Services Set-Aside (TVSSA) Formula Program population certification was accepted have been notified via an email to the applicant primary points of contact and authorized representatives. Applicants should refer to the OVC FY 2023 TVSSA Formula Program solicitation for instructions on how to submit their application.

The goal of this program is to provide services that address the needs of minor victims of sex and labor trafficking through a continuum of trauma-informed, culturally relevant, and gender responsive services to ensure their safety, security, and healing and to prevent them from being directed to or involved in the justice system.

OVC seeks field-generated proposals that offer innovative solutions that will increase the service options available to crime victims, expand access for underheard and underrepresented communities, or improve the way information is delivered to crime victims. Applicants will be asked to state the problem they are aiming to solve and present an innovative solution that will generate new or promising practices for the field.

The Fellow will assist OVC’s work to build the capacity of and increase access to culturally responsive services for victims of crime through outreach, demonstration initiatives, national-scope programs, national conferences, and the development of culturally specific responses to hate crimes, terrorism, and mass violence, among other issues.

OVC seeks applications to re-establish National Resource Centers for 1) Reaching Underserved Victims and 2) Victim Research and Evaluation.

OVC seeks applications to fund TTA services to support ECM Task Force to Combat Human Trafficking sites throughout the United States. This program will support OVC ECM task force partners develop and sustain a multidisciplinary approach that increases their capacity to identify and support victims, seek justice on their behalf, and hold traffickers accountable.

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.