The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), Office of Justice Programs (OJP), Office for Victims of Crime (OVC) seeks applications to develop or enhance promising practices, models, and programs that offer innovative solutions to build the capacity of service providers to increase the service options and/or expand access points for victims of crime in underrepresented communities.
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: 06/28/2022
Size of the Grant: $750,000
Grant Duration: 3 years
Details:
The overarching goal of this program is to generate proposals that reflect the authentic needs and challenges of the victim services field in responding to the current realities of crime victimization in the United States and its territories. This solicitation provides a vehicle for funding innovative approaches that do not easily fit within the criteria of other OVC solicitations.
There are no limitations on which victim-related topics the applicant may address; however, the proposal must clearly demonstrate a strong need for what is proposed, using relevant data and research. Innovative approaches can focus on issues that have long vexed the victim services field, or on the identification of new gaps in services or new approaches to addressing existing gaps. OVC is particularly interested in field-generated proposals that will increase the service options available or expand access to underheard and underrepresented victims of crime. Areas of particular interest to OVC include:
- Service interventions that address victims of crime who are often overlooked when it comes to specialized services, e.g., victims of robbery, assault, carjacking, or burglary.
- Innovative approaches to providing culturally relevant and culturally specific services.
- Subaward programs aim to fund smaller community-based programs that specialize in culturally specific services.
- Demonstration programs that test approaches to increasing service options or expanding access borrowed from other disciplines, such as public health, psychology, social work, forensic science, or others.
- Training or technical assistance models that can potentially reach unprecedented numbers of service providers.
- Innovative methods of information delivery and notification services for victims of crime.
- Co-response approaches that partner service providers and public safety personnel in response to particular crimes, disturbances, or calls for service.
Goals and Objectives
This solicitation requires that applicants identify and address challenges or gaps in victim service provision and access, and propose to remedy these challenges and gaps through innovative, cost-effective, and pragmatic solutions.
The successful applicants will include plans to:
- Conduct a wide-ranging survey or needs assessment, unless the proposal includes supporting data and research to demonstrate the need to be addressed.
- Perform a review of all existing services or programs for the problem intended to be addressed.
- Enter into a sub-recipient agreement with an entity, or a consultant, to provide evaluation support.
- Appoint an advisory group—which includes persons with lived experience in the victimization or communities addressed by the project—to review and comment on all program materials to be developed.
- Create a program, practice, or tool that will be implemented during the timeframe of the award.
- Submit a final report that documents the development strategy, implementation process, and the impact/results/outcome of the project.
Funding Information
- Anticipated Maximum Dollar Amount of Awards – $750,000.
Grant Period
- Period of Performance Duration (Months) – 36.
Eligibility Criteria
- For-profit organizations other than small businesses, Individuals, Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized), Native American tribal organizations (other than Federally recognized tribal governments), 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, Small businesses
- 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.
For more information, visit Grants.gov.
