Deadline: 18-Apr-23
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), Office of Justice Programs (OJP), Office for Victims of Crime (OVC) seeks applications for funding to maintain a National Mass Violence Victimization Resource Center to identify and develop evidence-based best practices that address the comprehensive needs of these victims and those who engage with them, with an emphasis on addressing mental- and behavioral-health issues.
This program furthers the DOJ’s mission by reducing violent crime and providing vital services to crime victims. Violent crime can take a physical, psychological, emotional, and financial toll on victims and first responders, which requires effective and appropriate evidence based responses.
Goals
- The overall goal of this project is to fund an MV Center to develop, maintain, and deploy tools and strategies; engage communities and the Nation in awareness and response; and continue to build the capacity to support victims, their families, first responders, and communities affected by mass violence and terrorism. This will be accomplished through TTA, education, technology, victim-focused community planning and responses, and other related activities.
Objectives
- Objective 1: TTA – Integrate behavioral- and mental-health (BH/MH) responses to mass violence incidents (as needed).
- Objective 2: Training and Education – Develop, amend, or provide education, training, and related resources to clinicians, victims, and other stakeholders to build knowledge, capacity, and resiliency related to mass violence and terrorism, especially for victims of hate crimes.
- Objective 3: Analysis – Examine how various elements of mass violence incidents affect victims. For example, the successful applicant may explore the intersections/differences between mass violence and broader community violence, hate crimes, and domestic violence; or examine resources for diverse victim populations; or examine the unmet BH/ MH needs and services victims receive.
- Objective 4: Technology – Leverage technology to maintain, develop, and deliver a variety of BH/MH-related services and products that support victims, communities, victim service providers, first responders, and other stakeholders involved in mass violence and terrorism planning and response.
- Objective 5: Resources/products – Develop and provide an array of products related to grant activities. In addition to training/education materials, develop products relating to analyses of mass violence victim-related issues, technology-based resources, and other relevant products such as those listed.
- Objective 6: Conference Support – Host a national conference to convene stakeholders for the sharing and exchange of best practices related to mass violence and domestic terrorism response, focused primarily on victims and impacted communities and how to plan for incidents and support these survivors.
- Objective 7: Ongoing activities – The grantee should maintain and continue activities currently provided under the existing National Mass Violence Victimization Resource Center framework.
- Objective 8: The MV Center will also be responsible for the ICP TTA project.
Funding Information
- Anticipated Total Amount: $8.9 million.
Eligibility Criteria
- Private institutions of higher education, Public and State controlled institutions of higher education.
- An applicant entity may submit more than one application, if each application proposes a different project in response to the solicitation. Also, an entity may be proposed as a subrecipient (subgrantee) in more than one application.
- OVC will consider applications under which two or more entities would carry out the federal award; however, only one entity may be the applicant. Any others must be proposed as subrecipients (subgrantees).
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