OVC FY 16 Vision 21: Multidisciplinary Responses to Families and Communities in Complex Homicide Cases | OVC 2016 9440

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The Office for Victims of Crime (OVC) FY 16 Vision 21: Multidisciplinary Responses to Families and Communities in Complex Homicide Cases is a discretionary federal funding opportunity (CFDA 16.582) offered through cooperative agreements to strengthen how communities respond to the aftermath of especially difficult homicide cases. The core aim is to identify and elevate promising practices that better support surviving family members and affected communities when a homicide is so complicated that it demands a specialized, coordinated approach from victim service providers, law enforcement, and other key partners. OVC uses the term "complex homicide" to cover a range of situations where the needs are intense, the dynamics are sensitive, and the systems involved can be hard to navigate, including intra-familial homicides, murder-suicides, cases with child witnesses, mass violence and multiple-victim incidents, vehicular homicides, gang-involved shootings, and police-involved shootings where either an officer or a suspect is killed.

The solicitation is structured around two separate purpose areas with distinct roles. Purpose Area #1 focuses on demonstration project sites that will deliver direct, multidisciplinary services in real-world complex homicide cases. OVC planned to make up to six awards under this category, with each award capped at $600,000. Funded sites are expected not only to provide coordinated responses to families and communities, but also to work in a researcher-practitioner partnership model so that what they implement can be evaluated. The evaluation component is meant to move beyond anecdotal lessons and help identify evidence-based practices that can be adapted locally and, ultimately, shared more broadly across the field.

Purpose Area #2 is designed to support the field as a whole by funding one organization to serve as the technical assistance (TA) provider for the demonstration sites. OVC planned a single award under this category capped at $1.5 million. The TA provider would be responsible for identifying what support the direct-service sites need to succeed, convening grantee meetings to facilitate shared learning, and compiling a compendium of promising practices suitable for publication and dissemination. A key expectation is that the TA provider can translate emerging lessons into practical guidance and resources that victim service professionals and allied partners can actually use, including through online publications and tools that reach a wide audience.

Eligibility differs slightly across the two purpose areas, but both are limited to entities with relevant institutional capacity. For Purpose Area #1 (demonstration sites), eligible applicants include public agencies, federally recognized tribal governments, private nonprofit organizations (including tribal nonprofits), faith- and community-based organizations, and colleges or universities (including tribal institutions of higher education). Applicants must show two types of experience: first, direct service experience supporting families after a homicide or other violent death; and second, experience running programs that require substantial coordination among service providers, law enforcement, and other entities that engage with families and communities after a homicide or violent crime. For Purpose Area #2 (technical assistance), the eligible applicant types are similar (public agencies, federally recognized tribal governments, private nonprofits, faith- and community-based organizations, and colleges/universities), but the required experience is tailored to the TA role. Applicants must demonstrate experience providing technical assistance in the victimization and support-service areas described in the solicitation, and they must also have experience developing online publications and resources intended for broad dissemination within the victim services field.

A major rule in this solicitation is that applicants must choose one lane: an organization may apply either as a demonstration site (Purpose Area #1) or as the technical assistance provider (Purpose Area #2), but not both. Any applicant that submits applications for both purpose areas would not be considered. In total, OVC anticipated seven awards across the two purpose areas (up to six demonstration sites plus one TA provider). The opportunity was issued by OVC with an original closing date of June 20, 2016, and it carried an overall award ceiling of $1,500,000, reflecting the larger single award reserved for the technical assistance provider.

• 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 16 Vision 21: Multidisciplinary Responses to Families and Communities in Complex Homicide Cases" 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 2016-05-03.
• Applicants must submit their applications by 2016-06-20. (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 $1,500,000.00 in funding.
• The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 7 candidate(s).
• Eligible applicants include: Others.

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