The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), Office of Justice Programs (OJP), Office for Victims of Crime (OVC), seeks applications for funding to support an entity that will (1) competitively select and fund sub-awards to support direct services to children and youth who are crime victims impacted by the Nation’s drug crisis, and (2) provide technical assistance to the selected sub awardees.
Donor Name: Office for Victims of Crime (OVC)
State: All States
County: All Counties
U.S. Territories: American Samoa, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 06/09/2022
Size of the Grant: $2,000,000
Grant Duration: 3 years
Details:
For this program, the following definitions apply:
- Drug or substance use refers to a person taking a drug, either prescribed or not, in a way other than it is intended to be used.
- Polyvictims are victims or survivors of more than one type of victimization (such as sexual abuse, physical abuse, neglect, bullying, and exposure to family violence) and those who have experienced multiple victimizations over a lifetime (Finkelhor, D., Turner, H., Ormrod, R., Hamby, S., & Kracke, K. (2009). Children’s Exposure to Violence: A Comprehensive National Survey. U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention). Children and youth who are crime victims impacted by the Nation’s drug crisis may be poly victims, and therefore have complex service needs including a potential need for support services to their families. This program is intended to address the complex needs of children, youth, and their families impacted by the Nation’s drug crisis.
Goals
The ultimate goal of this program is to expand, enhance, and formalize the service response to children, youth, and families who have been harmed by exposure to drug use.
Objectives
The objectives of this program are to—
- ascertain new ways of identifying children and youth impacted by substance use who need victim services; increase partnerships and the availability of, and access to, direct services and multidisciplinary response strategies for children, youth, and families who have been harmed through exposure to drug use, including those experiencing poly victimization;
- enhance knowledge and build the capacity of service providers to serve this population more effectively; and
- broadly share innovative crime victim response models that can be replicated in other communities and jurisdictions to address this population.
Funding Information
- Anticipated Maximum Dollar Amount of Awards – $2,000,000.
Grant Period
- Period of Performance Duration (Months) – 36.
Eligibility Criteria
- County governments, For-profit organizations other than small businesses, Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education, Nonprofits that do not have a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education, private institutions of higher education, Public and State controlled institutions of higher education, State governments, Unrestricted (open to any type of entity above), subject to any clarification in the text field entitled as Additional Information on Eligibility.
- For purposes of this solicitation, “state” means any state of the United States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands.
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