OVC FY 17 Serving Crime Victims with Disabilities: A Seamless Approach from First Response to Healing | OVC 2017 11966

Opportunity Information: Apply for OVC 2017 11966

The OVC FY 17 Serving Crime Victims with Disabilities: A Seamless Approach from First Response to Healing grant is a discretionary funding opportunity from the U.S. Department of Justice, Office for Victims of Crime (OVC), offered as a cooperative agreement. Its central purpose is to modernize and expand national training and resource materials that help professionals respond effectively to crime victims with disabilities, from the earliest point of contact through longer-term recovery. OVC is focusing especially on updating two cornerstone resources that were originally produced in the late 2000s and last revised in 2011: the Victims with Disabilities Collaborative, Multidisciplinary First Response DVD and Trainer's Guide, and the Victims with Disabilities: The Forensic Interview DVD and Trainer's Guide. The solicitation reflects the reality that both the disability field and the broader environment of victimization have advanced considerably since those publications, including major shifts in technology that affect how victimization occurs and how victims seek help.

A key theme of the opportunity is building a seamless, end-to-end approach that makes victim services accessible and appropriate at every step. That includes first response and multidisciplinary coordination, effective and disability-informed forensic interviewing practices, and guidance that supports healing and ongoing service provision. In practical terms, OVC is looking for updated materials that incorporate current knowledge about disabilities, communication access, accommodations, trauma-informed approaches, and the ways modern technology can create new risks or complicate investigations and service delivery. The end products are expected to be national in scope but also designed so local jurisdictions and programs can customize and apply them in real-world settings.

Eligible applicants are limited to public agencies, colleges and universities (including tribal institutions of higher education), and nonprofit and for-profit organizations (including tribal nonprofit and for-profit organizations). If a for-profit entity is involved, it must agree to forgo any profit or management fees, which reinforces that the project is intended as a public-benefit effort rather than a revenue-generating one. OVC is seeking applicants with proven expertise and the ability to collaborate with a wide range of stakeholders at the national, tribal, regional, state, and local levels. This signals that the work should not be developed in isolation; it should reflect input from practitioners and communities that understand disability, victim services, law enforcement response, forensic interviewing, and related systems.

The solicitation places strong emphasis on both product quality and dissemination. Applicants must show they can develop innovative publications in multiple formats, including online and print, and that they have a credible plan to get the finished resources into the hands of the field through several dissemination channels. The intent is not just to create updated guides, but to ensure they are easy to access, broadly usable, and actually adopted by victim service providers and justice system professionals.

Structurally, OVC allows partnerships and encourages collaborative applications, but only one organization may serve as the official applicant and lead entity with primary responsibility for managing the entire project and administering the award. Any partner organizations must be included as subrecipients (subgrantees). Only one application per applicant entity will be considered, although an organization can participate as a subrecipient on multiple applications submitted by different lead applicants. OVC also notes that it may choose to fund strong applications in future fiscal years, depending on merit and the availability of appropriations.

In terms of basic program facts, the opportunity number is OVC 2017 11966, with an original closing date of May 2, 2017. The assistance listing (CFDA) number is 16.582, and the activity categories fall under income security and social services as well as law, justice, and legal services. OVC anticipated making a single award, with an award ceiling of $1,333,333.

• The Office for Victims of Crime in the income security and social services, law, justice and legal services sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "OVC FY 17 Serving Crime Victims with Disabilities: A Seamless Approach from First Response to Healing" and is now available to receive applicants.
• Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 16.582.
• This funding opportunity was created on 2017-03-16.
• Applicants must submit their applications by 2017-05-02. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
• Each selected applicant is eligible to receive up to $1,333,333.00 in funding.
• The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 1 candidate(s).
• Eligible applicants include: Others.

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