Deadline: 1-Jun-23
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), Office of Justice Programs (OJP), Office for Victims of Crime (OVC) seeks applications from individuals interested in participating in the OVC Culturally Responsive Victim Services (CRVS) Fellowship.
This program furthers the DOJ’s mission by improving the capacity of the victim services field to address the needs of crime victims.
The goal of this program is to engage a full-time Fellow to provide policy and programmatic contributions that inform and assist OVC’s efforts to increase the capacity of the field to provide culturally responsive, victim-centered, trauma-informed victim services.
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.
Objectives
- An applicant should address all the objectives listed in the Goals, Objectives, Deliverables and Timeline web-based form.
- Develop strategies to support services that meet needs identified by victims and survivors, specifically those from culturally specific communities and communities of color that are often unheard, marginalized, underrepresented, and underserved.
- Institutionalize communication and collaboration innovations that will improve OVC’s relationships with culturally specific victim serving organizations.
- Identify barriers that make it difficult for survivors from culturally specific communities to access services, and those that prevent grassroots organizations from accessing funding.
- Identify barriers and gaps to supporting culturally specific organizations and develop innovative solutions to improve communication and foster relationships with these organizations.
- Collaborate with OVC’s National Center for Culturally Responsive Victim Services to conduct outreach to victim-serving organizations supporting underrepresented, underserved, and unheard communities and build the capacity of these organizations to meet the unmet needs of victims and survivors.
- In collaboration with the Communities of Color Working Group (COCWG), coordinate awareness and learning opportunities to inform OVC about ongoing work to increase the capacity and availability of culturally responsive victim services.
Funding Information
- Estimated Total Program Funding: $350,000
- Award Ceiling: $350,000.
- Period of Performance Duration (Months) 24.
Eligibility Criteria
- The following application elements must be included in the application to meet the basic minimum requirements to advance to peer review and receive consideration for funding:
- Proposal Abstract
- Proposal Narrative
- Budget Web-Based Form (The web-based form includes the budget details and the budget narrative.)
- Resume or Curriculum Vitae
- If OJP determines that an application does not include these elements, it will neither proceed to peer review, nor receive further consideration.
Capabilities and Competencies
- This section must—
- Demonstrate that the applicant has the capacity and experience to implement project activities, including the expertise necessary to assess culturally responsive victim services and necessary technical assistance supports for the targeted audiences to address identified challenges related to equity and increased access to services for historically marginalized and underserved communities.
- Provide a clear description of academic, professional expertise, and relevant work experience in the subject matter areas of the fellowship, including but not limited to, experience working with or on behalf of culturally specific victim-serving organizations or allied partners to provide culturally specific, victim-centered, trauma-informed victim services; experience working within a culturally specific organization (organizations with the primary purpose of providing culturally specific services to Black, Latinx, Indigenous, Asian, Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander, or other cultural communities); or experience providing direct services to victims representative of culturally specific communities.
- Document experience providing oral presentations and developing written materials, publications, or technical assistance products for broad audiences of stakeholders.
- Describe other relevant competencies.
- Resume or a curriculum vitae must be included as a separate attachment.
- Plan for Collecting the Data Required for this Solicitation’s Performance Measures This section must include:
- A plan for collecting all the performance measures data required by this solicitation.
- A description of how the information will be used to guide and evaluate the impact of the project.
Note: An applicant is not required to submit performance data with the application. Rather, performance measure information is included as a notification that award recipients will be required to submit performance data as part of each award’s reporting requirements. Some measures are presented as examples, while others are the exact measures that every recipient will be expected to address.
For more information, visit Grants.gov.