The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), Office of Justice Programs (OJP), Office for Victims of Crime (OVC) seeks applications for funding in two purpose areas: Enhanced Multidisciplinary Teams (E-MDTs) and a Multidisciplinary Team Training and Technical Assistance (TTA) Center.
Donor Name: Office for Victims of Crime (OVC)
State: All States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 05/24/2023
Size of the Grant: $375,000 – $1,000,000
Grant Duration: 36 months
Details:
This program furthers the DOJ’s mission by supporting the development and TTA needs of enhanced MDT models to strengthen the capacity of the victim services field and allied professionals to better serve and support victims of elder abuse and financial exploitation.
With this solicitation, OVC seeks to support the development or enhancement of multidisciplinary teams to better identify and respond to cases of abuse of older adults and more comprehensively serve and support older victims of financial exploitation and other forms of elder abuse. The program will also support a National Elder Abuse Training and Technical Assistance Center. Through these efforts OVC hopes to improve case outcomes, while minimizing additional trauma and restoring safety and security to older adult victims of crime, and hold more offenders accountable.
OVC intends to fund two separate purpose areas under this solicitation in FY 2023.
Purpose Area 1: Enhanced Elder Abuse Multidisciplinary Teams (COVC-2023-00020-PROD)—OVC will fund up to 10 enhanced elder abuse MDTs (E-MDTs) at the rural, tribal, local, or state levels, including existing and new teams. These teams should include forensic accountants; neuropsychologists or other mental health providers specializing in older populations; and medical personnel or other appropriate professionals (to possibly evaluate the victim’s cognitive abilities and capacity), so that case-related efforts more comprehensively consider and address the needs and limitations of older victims of financial exploitation and other forms of elder abuse. These victim-focused E-MDTs are to be designed to improve the case review process and associated systems. In addition to system coordination, these E-MDTs should seek to better understand victims’ priorities and needs, which must include determining effective responses to financial exploitation.
Purpose Area 2: Elder Abuse Multidisciplinary Team Training and Technical Assistance Center (C-OVC-2023-00021-PROD)—OVC will fund the continuation of the National Elder Abuse Multidisciplinary Team Training and Technical Assistance Center (National Elder Abuse MDT TTA Center) to support OVC-funded E-MDTs. Applicants for Purpose Area 2 should have in-house expertise in serving Tribal victims or propose a substantial partnership with a culturally specific service provider to ensure best practices for service delivery and support for Tribal victims. The National Elder Abuse MDT TTA Center will focus on identifying and promoting best practices and innovative strategies (e.g., via stakeholder feedback, program evaluation, and data collection), and fostering, effective collaborative responses through the use of enhanced MDTs for cases of elder abuse and financial exploitation. The goal is to improve case outcomes while minimizing additional trauma, restore safety and security for older adult victims of crime, and hold more offenders accountable. The National Elder Abuse MDT TTA Center will also help guide the development of new E-MDTs, and the expansion of existing OVC-funded EMDTs. The successful applicant will develop and operate the National Elder Abuse MDT TTA Center, using developmentally appropriate, trauma-informed, and culturally relevant principles to enhance the coordinated multidisciplinary case review and response to elder abuse (including financial exploitation) and to improve the system’s handling of these cases. The successful applicant will be responsible for providing training and technical assistance, developing and disseminating resources and other appropriate deliverables, and promoting methods to provide project assessment and increase coordination among the OVC-funded E-MDTs.
Goals
The goal of this solicitation is to improve case outcomes while minimizing additional trauma, restore safety and security to older adult victims of financial exploitation and abuse, and hold more offenders accountable. The development or enhancement of TTA support for E-MDTs will ensure they can better identify and respond to older adults who experience financial exploitation and other forms of elder abuse.
Objectives
For Purpose Area 1: Enhanced Elder Abuse Multidisciplinary Teams (E-MDTs)
- E-MDTs are characterized by expanded membership including forensic accountants, neuropsychologists or other specialized mental health professionals, other medical personnel, and other appropriate professionals so that case-related efforts more comprehensively incorporate the needs of older victims of financial exploitation and other forms of elder abuse.
- Applicants may propose either developing new E-MDTs or enhancing existing elder abuse multidisciplinary teams. These victim-focused E-MDTs should be designed to improve the case review processes and associated systems that may be involved in an elder abuse case or support a victim of elder abuse. In addition to system coordination, these E-MDTs should seek to better understand victims’ priorities and needs, which must include addressing effective responses to financial exploitation.
For Purpose Area 2: Elder Abuse Multidisciplinary Team Training and Technical Assistance Center
- OVC intends to fund one national-scope MDT TTA Center award under Purpose Area 2. The goal of this TTA program is to identify and promote best practices and innovative strategies; foster effective collaborative responses by using E-MDTs for cases of elder abuse and elder financial exploitation that can result in improved case outcomes; include practices and procedures that help minimize additional trauma and help restore safety and security to older adult victims or crime; and potentially hold more offenders accountable. Applicants should have experience and expertise in serving Tribal victims or propose a partnership with a subgrantee with this experience.
Funding Information
- Purpose Area 1: Enhanced Elder Abuse Multidisciplinary Teams (COVC-2023-00020-PROD)
- Estimated Total Program Funding: $4,750,000
- Dollar Amount for Award: $375,000
- Period of Performance: 36 months
- Purpose Area 2: Elder Abuse Multidisciplinary Team Training and Technical Assistance Center (C-OVC-2023-00021-PROD)
- Estimated Total Program Funding: $4,750,000
- Dollar Amount for Award: $1,000,000
- Period of Performance: 36 months
Eligible Applicants
City or township governments, County governments, 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, Special district governments, State governments.
Eligibility for Purpose Area 1: Enhanced Multidisciplinary Teams
- State governments
- Special district governments
- City or township governments
- Public and State controlled institutions of higher education
- County governments
- Native American tribal organizations (other than Federally recognized tribal governments)
- Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized)
- 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
Eligibility for Purpose Area 2: Elder Abuse Multidisciplinary Team Training and Technical Assistance Center
- Native American tribal organizations (other than Federally recognized tribal governments)
- Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized)
- 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
An applicant entity may submit more than one application, if each application proposes a different project in response to the solicitation. Also, an entity may be proposed as a subrecipient (subgrantee) in more than one application.
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