Deadline: 20 April 2020
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), Office of Justice Programs (OJP), Office for Victims of Crime (OVC) is seeking applications for funding for the OVC Fiscal Year (FY) 2020 Law Enforcement-Based Victim Specialist Program. This program furthers the Department’s mission by assisting law enforcement to better support victims through the criminal justice process.
The goal of this program is to assist state, tribal, and local law enforcement agencies in developing or enhancing victim specialist programs that connect victims and families to much-needed services.
The objective of this program is to support law enforcement agencies in identifying victims, providing victims’ rights information, and more quickly ensuring that victim services are provided to meet the emotional, psychological, and/or physical needs of crime victims.
OJP Priority Areas
In FY 2020, in addition to executing any statutory prioritization that may be applicable, OJP will give priority consideration to:
- applications that address specific challenges that rural communities face.
- applications that demonstrate that the individuals who are intended to benefit from the requested grant reside in high-poverty areas or persistent poverty counties.
- applications that offer enhancements to public safety in economically distressed communities (Qualified Opportunity Zones).
Award Information
- Maximum number of awards OVC expects to make: 25 (across all purpose areas)
- Total amount anticipated to be awarded under solicitation: $11,685,000
- Period of Performance duration: 36 months
Deliverables
- Provision of, or referrals to, support services for crime victims, such as crisis intervention services, emergency transportation to court or certain appointments, short-term child or elder care services, temporary housing/shelter, and security measures.
- Assistance with participating in criminal justice proceedings.
- Assistance with obtaining state compensation and/or state-issued federal assistance for forensic medical examinations of crime victims.
- Assistance with other crime victim compensation applications and eligibility requirements.
- Provision of other allowable victim assistance services identified by the grantee.
- A plan for how the victim specialist program will be developed or enhanced, implemented, and sustained at the conclusion of the 36-month project period.
Eligibility Criteria
- Public law enforcement agencies (state, local, and tribal agencies).
- Tribal agencies must be public law enforcement agencies of federally recognized Indian tribes.
- Additionally, an organization that is acting as the authorized designee of a federally recognized Indian tribe may apply.
- While all applications from tribal agencies will require a tribal resolution or other satisfactory evidence of legal authority from the tribe as part of the application, only organizations that are tribal designees MUST submit this documentation as part of their application.
- Priority consideration will be given to applicants who have not received funding under the OVC FY 2018 Law Enforcement-Based Direct Victim Services Program.
- Recipients of OVC FY 2019 Law Enforcement-Based Victim Specialist Program funding are not eligible to apply for this FY 2020 solicitation.
- All recipients and subrecipients (including any for-profit organization) must forgo any profit or management fee.
How to Apply
Applicants must register in and submit applications through Grants.gov.
For more information, visit https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=324673
