2021 National Center for Culturally Responsive Victim Services – US

Deadline: 12-Jul-21

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 development, operation, and management of the Office for Victims of Crime’s National Center for Culturally Responsive Victim Services.

• promote racial equity in victim services and compensation by enhancing the organizational and programmatic capacity of victim service organizations run by and for historically underserved communities, including communities of color;
• provide comprehensive, training and technical assistance to advance services to victims of crime; and
• to build the capacity and infrastructure of organizations that provide victim services in underserved communities as all or part of their mission.

• Identify and reach out to organizations that serve victims in communities that have been historically underserved, marginalized, and adversely affected by persistent inequality, including communities of color, where there are few or no state or federally funded grantees or subgrantees that serve victims.
• Conduct a needs assessment in those communities to: identify barriers that are inhibiting victims’ awareness, access, and utilization of victim services and victim compensation; identify gaps in victim services to better understand the capacity of community-based organizations to provide culturally specific services to crime victims; and raise the awareness of those community-based organizations about state and federal programs, resources, and funding opportunities.
• Develop and deliver culturally competent training and technical assistance to victim service providers, communityand faith-based organizations, and other stakeholders in historically underserved communities, including communities of color, that provide direct assistance to victims as all or part of their mission.
• Enhance knowledge of and access to state and federal grant opportunities for organizations that serve victims of crime in underserved communities and provide training and technical assistance on programmatic and fiscal management of state and federal grant funds.

• Develop an outreach plan to obtain insight from historically underserved communities, including communities of color. This could include conducting site visits and hosting listening sessions in the communities to be served.
• Complete a needs assessment that identifies underlying causes of violence and victimization; barriers that inhibit victims in underserved communities from accessing services and victim compensation; and gaps in victim services.
• Develop and implement a training and technical assistance capacity building strategy that addresses outreach to culturally specific community-based organizations in historically underserved communities, including communities of color, where there are few or no Victims of Crime Act (VOCA) programs; culturally competent training and technical assistance to victim service providers, community- and faith-based organizations, and other stakeholders in underserved communities who may provide services to crime victims as all or part of their mission; and increase knowledge of, and access to, state and federal victim service grant opportunities to strengthen and sustain organizations in the identified communities.
• Work collaboratively with OVC and other OVC technical assistance providers, particularly those working with VOCA State Administrators, to advance access to victims services and compensation in historically underserved communities, including communities of color.
• Develop a report on the success of the project in meeting OVC goals and objectives.
• Complete and submit financial, progress, and other reports as required by the cooperative agreement.

• Anticipated Total Amount to be Awarded Under Solicitation: $3,000,000.00
• Anticipated Maximum Dollar Amount of Awards: $3,000,000.00
• Anticipated Number of Awards: 1
• Period of Performance Start Date: 10/1/21 12:00 AM
• Period of Performance Duration (Months): 36

• For profit organizations other than small businesses, Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized), Native American tribal organizations (other than Federally recognized tribal governments), Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education, Nonprofits that do not have a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education, Private institutions of higher education, Public and State controlled institutions of higher education, Small businesses, Other.
• For purposes of this solicitation, “state” means any state of the United States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands.
• To advance Executive Order Safe Policing for Safe Communities, the Attorney General determined that all state, local, and university or college law enforcement agencies must be certified by an approved independent credentialing body or have started the certification process to be allocated FY 2021 DOJ discretionary grant funding, as either a recipient or a subrecipient.
• All recipients and subrecipients (including any for-profit organization) must forgo any profit or management fee.

For more information, visit https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=333834