Deadline: 9-Jun-22
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), Office of Justice Programs (OJP), Office for Victims of Crime (OVC), seeks applications for funding to support an entity that will:
- competitively select and fund subawards to support direct services to children and youth who are crime victims impacted by the Nation’s drug crisis, and
- provide technical assistance to the selected subawardees.
Goal: The ultimate goal of this program is to expand, enhance, and formalize the service response to children, youth, and families who have been harmed by exposure to drug use.
Objectives
The objectives of this program are to
- ascertain new ways of identifying children and youth impacted by substance use who need victim services;
- increase partnerships and the availability of, and access to, direct services and multidisciplinary response strategies for children, youth, and families who have been harmed through exposure to drug use, including those experiencing polyvictimization;
- enhance knowledge and build the capacity of service providers to serve this population more effectively; and
- broadly share innovative crime victim response models that can be replicated in other communities and jurisdictions to address this population.
Funding Information
- Estimated Total Program Funding: $2,000,000
- Award Ceiling: $2,000,000
Eligibility Criteria
- Private institutions of higher education
- For profit organizations other than small businesses
- Nonprofits that do not have a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
- County governments
- Unrestricted
- State governments
- Public and State controlled institutions of higher education
- Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
- Others
For more information, visit https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=339790