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Technical assistance (TA)

OVC FY 15 State Victim Assistance Academy Technical Assistance Solicitation

Closing Date
OVC will make one award of up to $1,000,000 to provide dedicated training and technical assistance (TTA) resources to further develop and sustain the State Victim Assistance Academies (SVAA) framework and assist SVAAs with providing comprehensive, academically based, fundamental education and training for victim service providers and allied professionals. The TTA provider chosen for this project will work cooperatively with OVC to establish and maintain...

OVC FY 15 Supporting Male Survivors of Violence

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OVC will make several awards of up to $1,000,000 each to improve responses to male survivors of violence, particularly boys and young men of color, and their families, and to dedicate technical assistance to support these efforts. Under Program Area 1, OVC will make 8 to 12 awards to fund demonstration sites to establish evidence-based models and practices to provide trauma-informed, comprehensive services for male...

OVC FY 15 2016 National Crime Victims' Rights Week Community Awareness Projects Competitive Solicitation

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OVC will award one cooperative agreement of up to $375,000 to provide technical assistance and financial, programmatic, and administrative support to approximately 60 communities and victim assistance organizations nationwide to conduct public education and awareness activities in their jurisdictions during 2016 National Crime Victims' Rights Week. Eligible applicants are limited to nonprofit organizations (including tribal nonprofit organizations), faith- and community-based organizations, and public agencies. Those...

OVC FY 15 Sexual Assault Response Team (SART) Toolkit 2.0 Competitive Solicitation

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One cooperative agreement of $700,000 will be awarded to update the SART Toolkit: Resources for Sexual Assault Response Teams—an online resource for establishing, strengthening, and sustaining sexual assault response teams in a variety of settings—to ensure it contains the latest research, practices, and information to support sexual assault victims, particularly underserved populations. Eligible applicants are limited to organizations with a demonstrated history of longstanding, national-scale...

OVC FY 15 Linking Systems of Care for Children and Youth Invitational Letter

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The Office for Victims of Crime (OVC) launched its Vision 21: Linking Systems of Care Initiative in FY 2014 in response to recommendations from its Vision 21: Transforming Victim Services Final Report (Vision 21) and the final report released by the Attorney General's National Task Force on Children Exposed to Violence. Recommendations in both reports aim to improve youth outcomes by addressing the enduring issue...

OVC FY 15 Vision 21: Linking Systems of Care for Children and Youth Technical Assistance Project Invitational Letter

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This solicitation will provide training and technical assistance resources to support state-level demonstration projects to address the enduring issue of child and youth victimization. Victimization, left unaddressed, can have serious, long-lasting consequences for children’s physical and mental health. Research demonstrates that trauma left untreated may manifest into a range of physical, emotional, and behavioral problems. We pay for child and youth victimization in many ways...

OVC FY 14 Vision 21 Victim Legal Assistance Networks

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OVC will make up to four awards to develop comprehensive, collaborative networks to provide holistic legal assistance to crime victims. Up to three awards of up to $500,000 each will be made to implement comprehensive victim legal assistance networks at a statewide, regional, or local level. Eligible applicants are limited to states that administer Victim of Crime Act (VOCA) victim assistance formula grants. VOCA agencies...

OVC FY 14 Vision 21: Linking Systems of Care for Children and Youth Technical Assistance Project

Closing Date
OVC will award one cooperative agreement of up to $500,000 to provide training and technical assistance to improve state responses to child and youth victims and their families and caregivers. The award recipient will assist participating state demonstration sites in establishing a network of stakeholders, designing and implementing a gap analysis/needs assessment, and develop a strategy to identify, intervene, and treat child and youth victims...

OVC FY 14 Victim Assistance Professional Development Program-Vision 21 Legal Assistance Fellowship

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This competitive solicitation will fund one fellowship of up to $140,000 to undertake activities on issues emanating from the findings and recommendations in the Vision 21: Transforming Victim Services Final Report. The Vision 21 Legal Assistance Fellow will work on a range of issues and efforts to build capacity for the provision of free legal assistance to victims of crime, and will support OVC’s work...