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April 2020 Featured Resources

National Crime Victims' Rights Week is April 19–25, 2020

The 2020 National Crime Victims' Rights Week theme—Seek Justice | Ensure Victims' Rights | Inspire Hope—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.

The 2020 National Crime...

OVC FY 2020 Specialized Human Trafficking Training and Technical Assistance for Services Providers Invitation to Apply

Closing Date
The overarching goal of this program is to enhance the victim service field's response to victims of human trafficking in the key areas of employment and education. The objectives are to improve the quality and quantity of employment and education services offered to trafficking survivors by increasing capacity of victim service providers nationwide through TTA; and to improve victim service providers' partnerships at the national...

OVC FY 2020 VOCA Victim Compensation Fellow

Closing Date

This program will support one fellow at OVC housed within the State Compensation and Assistance Division (SCAD). The individual awarded funding under this program will enhance the efforts of OVC to meet the needs of the crime victim services field by advising OVC on the development and oversight of programs for crime victims, specifically the VOCA Victim Compensation Program. The SCAD Fellow will work with...

Mobile Apps for Crime Victims and Providers

The following mobile applications (apps) provide information and resources about various types of victimization.

The inclusion of a mobile app on this page does not constitute an official endorsement, guarantee, or approval by OVC.

Before downloading any app, you may be interested in reviewing information from the Safety Net Project, a project of the National Network to End Domestic Violence.

OVC-Funded Apps

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OVC FY 2020 Mass Violence and Victimization Resource Center (MV Center) Invitation to Apply

Closing Date
Under the FY 2020 National Mass Violence Victimization Resource Center solicitation, Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) will maintain and build upon work and concepts developed under the FY 2017 award including continuing to partner with stakeholders to learn about best practices. Education, training, and resources will be further developed, implemented, and provided to the appropriate audiences. Technology initiatives include maintaining the website; deploying the...

Faces of Human Trafficking Video 5: Effective Victim Services

December 2015

This video includes information on the importance of providing victim-centered, trauma-informed services to meet the wide array of needs experienced by trafficking victims. Coordination and collaboration are critical in responding to the diverse population of trafficking survivors, as no one provider can meet all of the needs of all types of trafficking victims.

Link to Us

We encourage you to place a link to www.ovc.ojp.gov—the official website of the U.S. Department of Justice, Office for Victims of Crime, which oversees programs that have been designed to benefit and assist victims of crime.

To create a link to www.ovc.ojp.gov, copy the code below and paste it on your web page. You may add just a text link or choose from the...