Deadline: 8-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 enhance or expand the capacity of national hotlines that are essential for providing crisis intervention services, safety planning, information, referrals, and resources for victims of crime in all 50 states, Puerto Rico, Guam and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
Goal: The goal of this program is to enhance or expand the capacity of national victim service hotlines to provide crisis intervention support services using trauma-informed approaches that protect the safety and confidentiality of victims.
Objectives
Applicants will achieve this goal through the following objectives:
- Provide high-quality service to crime victims and survivors by expanding hotline staffing to improve capacity to reduce wait times and enhance access to services and resources.
- Enhance training for hotline personnel on how to respond to complex crisis situations (e.g., suicide prevention, human trafficking, child abuse, online abuse and harassment) and provide support to minimize their risk and the effects of vicarious trauma and burnout.
- Engage in public awareness campaigns and outreach efforts to increase accessibility, visibility, and awareness of national hotline services.
- Develop culturally and linguistically appropriate materials and resources for service providers and criminal justice stakeholders that increase awareness of hotline services.
- Provide trainings or webinars targeted at service providers and criminal justice stakeholders that increase awareness of hotline services.
- Maintain the National Hotline Consortium to share technology service delivery and promising practices, improve operations, and support accessible, quality victim services and crisis response.
- Increase focus on quality assurance and quality improvement by implementing a data-driven improvement process that enhances service provision, technology processes, reporting, and data analysis capacity.
Funding Information
- Estimated Total Program Funding: $6,000,000
- Award Ceiling: $2,000,000
Eligibility Criteria
- County governments
- City or township governments
- Native American tribal organizations (other than Federally recognized tribal governments)
- State governments
- Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
- Others
- Private institutions of higher education
- Public and State controlled institutions of higher education
- Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized)
- Nonprofits that do not have a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
For more information, visit Grants.gov.
For more information, visit https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=339649