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Justice
Department Has $700,000 For Victim Advocates To Educate On Crime Victims?
Issues
WASHINGTON, D.C. ? Victim advocates and allied
professionals whose work affects victims can apply to the Justice Department?s
Office for Victims of Crime (OVC) for a total of $700,000 in
FY
2001 discretionary grant funding.? OVC
released its Discretionary Program Application Kit for Fiscal Year 2001
today.?
Two competitive discretionary grant solicitations for
the FY 2001 funding cycle ? Action Partnerships with Professional and
Membership Organizations and Field-Generated National Impact Projects ? are
available.? The kit contains the
application materials and directions necessary to apply for these grants.? Applications are due May 15, 2001.
The Action Partnerships Program invites applications from organizations representing
the faith community, law enforcement, prosecutors, judges, and third-party
payers of benefits, including health insurance companies, workers compensation
programs and victim compensation programs.
OVC plans to award $300,000 to support projects of up to $100,000
each.?
Under this program, OVC is inviting proposals from
groups that represent specific constituencies to create partnerships between
OVC and professional and membership organizations, resulting in activities that
provide information and training to their members on crime victimization issues.? Grant funds can be used to develop and
disseminate training curricula and materials such as videos, interactive CD-ROM
software, handbooks and policy and procedure manuals.?
The Field-Generated Initiative seeks proposals from nonprofit and public agencies to
address emerging victim issues in sexual assault, substance abuse, cybercrime,
rural crime, hate crime and best practices in serving disabled victims, elderly
victims and co-victims of homicide.
Individual projects that demonstrate that they can provide training,
technical assistance and/or information that can be packaged and made available
to volunteers and professionals who work with crime victims can receive up to
$100,000.? OVC has a total of $400,000
to award under this initiative.
More information about OVC and its programs and the FY
2001 Discretionary Program Application Kit are available at www.ojp.usdoj.gov/ovc,
or by calling the OVC Resource Center
toll-free
at 1-800/627-6872.?
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For
more information contact: Linda Mansour on 202/616-3534