Hate crimes

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...

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 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.

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).