The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), Office of Justice Programs (OJP), Office for Victims of Crime (OVC) seeks applications for funding to provide training, technical assistance, resource development, and ongoing support to professional organizations serving entities that provide funeral services and medical examiners’/coroners’ offices that may come into contact with victims of crime (and their surviving family members or loved ones) in their work.
Donor Name: Office for Victims of Crime (OVC)
State: All States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 06/07/2023
Size of the Grant: $500,000
Grant Duration: 36 months
Details:
With this solicitation, OVC seeks to improve responses to families impacted by violent crime by building or enhancing relationships with membership organizations that represent funeral directors, cremation and burial service professionals, medical examiners/coroners, or other organizations whose members may come into contact with the surviving family members or loved ones of homicide victims. Membership organizations applying are expected to partner with appropriate victim serving organizations or subject matter experts in the victim services field to develop the program and materials that will inform their national audience (e.g., members, chapters, affiliates).
Goals
The project’s goals are to expand professional organization members’ knowledge and understanding of crime victim issues and what it means to be trauma-informed and trauma-sensitive, and encourage constituents who may come into contact with family members of homicide victims in their work to integrate this information into their daily practices.
Objectives
- Conduct an assessment of their membership to determine their existing knowledge and capacity related to crime victimization and trauma-informed delivery of services to survivors of homicide victims.
- Based on the assessment, provide free training and technical assistance, conference support, regional forums, and resource development to their memberships. This training, technical assistance, and resource development must be done in partnership with an organization or subject matter expert that specializes in providing victim services to families of homicide victims.
- Identify and promote promising practices and model policies in delivering traumainformed services to family members of homicide victims that could be integrated into the practices of funeral homes, burial services, and medical examiner’s or coroner’s offices.
- Equip the membership organizations of these professional communities with the resources and knowledge necessary to improve the delivery of crime victim compensation and assistance information to neighborhoods experiencing high levels of violent crime.
Funding Information
- Anticipated Total Amount to be Awarded Under Solicitation: $1,500,000
- Anticipated Maximum Dollar Amount of Awards: $500,000
Period of Performance Duration (Months)
36
Eligibility Criteria
- Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
- For profit organizations other than small businesses
- Nonprofits that do not have a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
For more information, visit Grants.gov.
