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April 2024 Featured Resources

This featured news content includes information about National Crime Victims’ Rights Week, Sexual Assault Awareness and Prevention Month, and National Child Abuse Prevention Month

National Extreme Risk Protection Order Resource Center

This U.S. Department of Justice-funded project provides training and technical assistance to law enforcement officials, prosecutors, attorneys, judges, clinicians, victim service and social service providers, community organizations, and behavioral health professionals responsible for implementing laws designed to keep guns out of the hands of people who pose a threat to themselves or others.

OVC FY24 Enhanced Collaborative Model (ECM) Task Force to Combat Human Trafficking

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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 other governmental and nongovernmental partners that work together to provide access to a diverse set of services for trafficking victims and to seek justice on their behalf.

March 2024 Featured Resources

This featured news content includes information about National Crime Victims’ Rights Week, National Consumer Protection Week, and Developmental Disabilities Awareness Month.

Confronting Labor Trafficking Through a Victim-Centered Approach

February 2024

Brecht Donoghue, Director, OVC Human Trafficking Division, led this National Human Trafficking Prevention Month webinar to spotlight labor trafficking and resources available to survivors. Learn about labor trafficking victim needs and resources available through the re-launch of Framework, an OVC-funded, labor trafficking-specific training and technical assistance project.

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Submission Guidelines

Criteria for Inclusion in the Directory of Crime Victim Services

Each submission will be evaluated based on the following criteria:

  • Core services: The primary task of the organization must be to provide direct services to victims of crime.
  • Stability: The organization must have provided crime victim services for a minimum of 12 months or be a new Victim of Crimes Act (VOCA) subgrantee. The listed...

The National Census of Victim Service Providers: Data, Resources, and Implications for Practitioners

March 2023
This webinar provides an overview of the National Census of Victim Service Providers (NCVS) and a demonstration of recently released interactive maps analyzing the 2017 data at the county level. Learn the importance of these data to the victim services field, how they can be used to understand the current landscape of victim services across the country, and characteristics of victim service providers.

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OVC FY 2023 Enhanced Collaborative Model (ECM) Task Force to Combat Human Trafficking

Closing Date
Grants.gov Deadline
Application JustGrants Deadline
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.

New Report: Victim Service Providers in U.S. Counties, 2017


This brief Just the Stats report presents findings on the organizations that served victims of crime or abuse as their primary function or had dedicated staff or programs to serve victims, based on data from the National Census of Victim Service Providers, 2017.

The report uses maps to display the rates of victim service providers per 100,000 residents for U.S. counties in the 50 states...