The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), Office of Justice Programs (OJP), Office for Victims of Crime (OVC) seeks applications for funding from individuals interested in participating in the OVC Fellowship program.
Donor Name: Office for Victims of Crime
State: All States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Fellowship
Deadline: 07/05/2022
Size of the Grant: $400,000
Grant Duration: 36 months
Details:
OJP is committed to advancing work that promotes civil rights and racial equity, increases access to justice, supports crime victims and individuals impacted by the justice system, strengthens community safety and protects the public from crime and evolving threats, and builds trust between law enforcement and the community.
The OVC Victims of Crime Act (VOCA) Victim Compensation Fellow Program supports a grantee Fellow at OVC. The individual who is awarded funding under this program will work collaboratively with OVC and the crime victim services’ field to identify barriers that prevent all victims of crime, including victims of color, from accessing and receiving compensation, improve support and resources for state victim compensation programs, and promote equity in access to and receipt of compensation funding.
The goal of this fellowship program is to strengthen and enhance compensation programs with a focus on collaborating with the crime victim services’ field to identify barriers that prevent all victims of crime, including victims of color, from accessing and receiving compensation, improving support and resources for state victim compensation programs, and promoting equity in access to and receipt of compensation funding.
Objectives
- Assist OVC/OJP work with compensation administrators to support compensation programs.
- Assess individual state compensation programs and applicable laws, rules, regulations, policies, and other guidance or programs impacting the operations and execution of state compensation programs.
- Identify barriers that prevent all victims of crime, including victims of color, from accessing and receiving compensation, and provide recommendations at the national and state levels to overcome those barriers.
- Advance OVC/OJP’s support of compensation programs to promote equity in access to and receipt of compensation funding.
- Identify model best practices across victim compensation programs, share these best practices with OVC and other state programs, and develop trainings/public outreach efforts to raise awareness about these practices.
- Make recommendations to OVC about how to institutionalize communication and collaboration innovations that will improve coordination with the compensation administrators.
Funding Information
- Award Ceiling: $400,000
- Period of Performance Duration (Months): 36
Eligibility Criteria
- Individuals
- The successful candidate must demonstrate substantial knowledge of data and research related to victimization and victim services, and have the skills to communicate orally and in writing with a broad audience of stakeholders. Applicants must be able to be onsite at OVC in Washington, D.C., for a minimum of 1 week per 6 months throughout a 36-month project period, unless there are unique circumstances that would prevent the grantee Fellow from being onsite. The grantee Fellow will work with OVC to determine unique circumstances and make adjustments, as necessary. Organizations are not eligible to apply.
- All recipients and subrecipients (including any for-profit organization) must forgo any profit or management fee.
- OVC may elect to fund applications submitted under this FY 2022 solicitation in future fiscal years, dependent on, among other considerations, the merit of the applications and the availability of appropriations.
For more information, visit Grants.gov.
