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The OVC Center for VOCA Administrators (The OVC VOCA Center) provides peer-to-peer technical assistance to meet the needs of VOCA Administrators. The OVC VOCA Center will broaden victim services to historically underserved communities, provide grant and financial management training and technical assistance, offer learning opportunities designed specifically for VOCA Administrators, and foster expanded accessibility and sustainability of VOCA programs.

Every June 15, the Nation commemorates World Elder Abuse Awareness Day. In this video message, OVC Acting Director Katherine Darke Schmitt discusses OVC's efforts to ensure that victims of elder abuse and financial exploitation are connected with trauma-informed services and helpful resources that protect the safety and confidentiality of victims.

The Office for Victims of Crime invited Tribal leaders, representatives, and stakeholders to participate in a Consultation on the Tribal Set-Aside from the Crime Victims Fund for Fiscal Year 2021. Attendees discussed the FY 2021 Crime Victims Fund Tribal Set-Aside and potential revisions to the interim formula and application process used in 2020.

The Office for Victims of Crime invited Tribal leaders, representatives, and stakeholders to participate in a Consultation on the Tribal Set-Aside from the Crime Victims Fund for Fiscal Year 2021. Attendees discussed the FY 2021 Crime Victims Fund Tribal Set-Aside and potential revisions to the interim formula and application process used in 2020.

Office for Victims of Crime Director Jessica E. Hart joined Texas Secretary of State Ruth R. Hughs at the 2020 Texas Business Against Trafficking Conference. Director Hart spoke about the instrumental role that the business community plays in combating human trafficking and the Department of Justice's commitment to investigating and prosecuting offenders and serving victims of this terrible crime.

Learn how the Human Trafficking Capacity Building Center can help your organization or Tribe start, sustain, or grow its anti-trafficking work. The Center offers coaching, mentoring, and a resource library on financial management, community partnerships, delivery of victim services, and more. All the Center’s services are free and available to every organization and Tribe working to support victims of human trafficking.

Contact the Center by email at [email protected] or toll free at 1–844–682–0411, and visit the website at https://htcbc.ovc.ojp.gov.

This video provides information about the Office for Victims of Crime Tribal Financial Management Center and how it supports American Indian and Alaska Native communities with financial management and reporting requirements of Office for Victims of Crime grant awards, individualized financial training and technical assistance, and financial needs assessments. The Office for Victims of Crime Tribal Financial Management Center also provides a variety of learning aids including Financial Policies and Procedures Guide Sheets.

Female genital mutilation or cutting refers to a barbaric practice involving partial or total removal of female genitalia or other injury to female genital organs for non-medical reasons. Office for Victims of Crime Director Jessica E. Hart announces funding to address the needs of victims of female genital mutilation or cutting.

Office for Victims of Crime Director Jessica E. Hart speaks about the Administration's commitment to combating human trafficking and providing services to victims as we commemorate the 20th anniversary of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act. This landmark legislation identified a three-pronged approach to address this issue: protection, prevention, and prosecution.

As part of our recognition of the 20th anniversary of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act, Bill Woolf, Senior Advisor for Victim Services and Human Trafficking Program Director, announces the launch of the Human Trafficking Capacity Building Center website. The Center seeks to strengthen human trafficking victim services in the United States by delivering free coaching and mentoring to organizations and federally recognized Tribes looking to start, sustain, or grow their anti-trafficking work.

Learn how the Human Trafficking Capacity Building Center can help your organization or Tribe start, sustain, or grow its anti-trafficking work. The Center offers coaching, mentoring, and a resource library on financial management, community partnerships, delivery of victim services, and more. All the Center’s services are free and available to every organization and Tribe working to support victims of human trafficking.

Every October, the Nation commemorates Domestic Violence Awareness Month. Jessica E. Hart, Director, Office for Victims of Crime, discusses the Office for Victims of Crime’s commitment to supporting organizations throughout the Nation that support victims of domestic violence.

Office for Victims of Crime Director Jessica E. Hart announces the recipients of the 2020 National Crime Victims’ Service Awards. These prestigious awards recognize individuals and organizations that demonstrate extraordinary achievements in supporting victims.

Office for Victims of Crime Director Jessica E. Hart highlights that during the pandemic it is more important than ever to raise awareness about safety on college and university campuses across the country. In this message, Director Hart provides an overview of an Office for Victims of Crime initiative to provide grant funding to sexual assault nurse examiner (SANE) programs on college campuses to offer medical forensic care and other victim services to sexual assault survivors.

This recorded webinar provides information on both grantee and subgrantee responsibilities for Office for Victims of Crime performance measure reporting, describes collaborative activities for data collection with a subgrantee, and explain how to review subgrantee semiannual reports. View the webinar presentation.

This recorded webinar helps Office for Victims of Crime grantees develop a common understanding of performance management versus performance measures; provides information on question banks and shared measures; discusses reporting on partnerships, training, and technical assistance; and highlights how semiannual narrative responses can tell the story of your data.

This Office for Victims of Crime video message from Director Jessica E. Hart describes efforts by the Office for Victims of Crime to support American Indian and Alaska Native communities, including the establishment of a new Tribal Division. The new division ensures the Office for Victims of Crime is appropriately staffed to serve Tribal communities by streamlining the distribution and management of the Tribal grant awards.

Office for Victims of Crime Director Jessica E. Hart announces that National Crime Victims' Rights Week will be commemorated April 18–24, 2021. The theme—Support Victims. Build Trust. Engage Communities.—emphasizes the importance of leveraging community support to help victims of crime.

This Office for Victims of Crime video message from Director Jessica E. Hart describes a consolidation of law enforcement, juvenile justice, and victim services human trafficking initiatives at the Office of Justice Programs into one division at the Office for Victims of Crime. This consolidation better aligns funding, training, assistance, and other resources in support of Attorney General Barr’s efforts to use every means at the Department of Justice’s disposal to bring traffickers to justice and serve trafficking victims.

The theme for 2020 National Crime Victims Rights' Week is Seek Justice | Ensure Victims' Rights | Inspire Hope. This year's theme commemorates the individuals and groups whose advocacy has propelled the victims' rights movement forward for the past half century, inspiring in victims and their loved ones a feeling of hope for progress, justice, and healing.