News and announcements
May 2024 From the Director’s Desk Briefing Now Available
May 2024 Featured Resources
Apply for Funding To Enhance Services for Victims of Crime
Remarks From OVC Director Kristina Rose: 2024 NCVRW Candlelight Vigil
Message From the Director: National Crime Victims’ Rights Week 2024
Meet the 2024 National Crime Victims’ Service Awards Recipients
Watch and Share the 2024 National Crime Victims’ Rights Week Theme Videos
April 2024 From the Director’s Desk Briefing Now Available
April 2024 Featured Resources
Release of the FY 2024 VOCA Victim Compensation and Victim Assistance Formula Solicitations
New Study on Meeting the Housing Needs of Survivors of Human Trafficking
Recursos para las víctimas en Kansas City, Missouri
Now Online: 2024 National Crime Victims’ Rights Week Resource Guide
The 2024 National Crime Victims’ Rights Week (NCVRW) Resource Guide is now available to help you raise awareness in your community about victims’ rights and services prior to and during NCVRW (April 21–27, 2024), and throughout the year.
It offers materials to help plan and implement your outreach through print media, web and social media, and in-person or virtual events. Discover compelling original artwork in...
March 2024 From the Director’s Desk Briefing Now Available
Funding Opportunity: Apply To Become a SANE Regional Center of Excellence
The International Association of Forensic Nurses (IAFN), in collaboration with OVC, invites forensic programs that are vested in preparing current and future Sexual Assault Nurse Examiners (SANEs) and Sexual Assault Forensic Examiners (SAFEs) for clinical practice to apply for funding to establish SANE Regional Centers of Excellence (SANE Regional CoE).
The program’s purpose is to increase the number and quality of the SANE/SAFE workforce and...
Updated Building Partnerships and Collaborations with Workforce and Education Systems Guide Now Available
March 2024 Featured Resources
Register for OVC’s 2024 National Crime Victims’ Rights Week Events
Apply for Funding To Enhance Services for Victims of Human Trafficking
Resources and Support for the Victims in Kansas City, Missouri
Resources and Support for the Victims at Lakewood Church in Houston, Texas
February 2024 From the Director’s Desk Briefing Now Available
February 2024 Featured Resources
Message From the Director: Notice of Proposed Rulemaking To Enhance the Federal Crime Victim Compensation Program
I am pleased to announce that the Office for Victims of Crime (OVC) has published a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking in the Federal Register (“Notice”) on Monday, February 5, 2024, to enhance the federal crime victim compensation program. It is now open for public comment.
As you may know, the federal crime victim compensation program is authorized through the Victims of Crime Act (VOCA) and the formula...