OVC FY 2009 Recovery Act National Field Generated Training, Technical Assistance, and Demonstration Projects | Apply Online

Opportunity Summary:

The OVC FY 2009 Recovery Act National Field Generated Training, Technical Assistance, and Demonstration Projects (NFG) opportunity was a competitive discretionary funding announcement from the U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, Office for Victims of Crime. It was funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) of 2009 and structured as a cooperative agreement, meaning applicants would generally be expected to work closely with OVC during the project period rather than operating with minimal federal involvement. The central purpose of the solicitation was to strengthen the national capacity of victim service providers and allied professionals by supporting projects that could be used broadly across many states and communities, not just in one locality.

The solicitation prioritized three main types of efforts, all of which needed to be national in scope. First, it supported training initiatives that help practitioners better understand and respond to victims needs and rights. Second, it funded technical assistance projects designed to address recognized gaps in the victim services field, such as shortcomings in knowledge, implementation support, coordination, or the ability of programs to consistently apply best practices. Third, it invited demonstration projects intended to test, build, and document promising practices, models, or programs that could later be replicated or scaled elsewhere. In other words, the funding was geared toward field-generated ideas that could improve how victim services are delivered nationwide, either by building workforce skills, providing hands-on implementation support, or proving out new approaches with enough rigor that others could adopt them.

All proposed initiatives had to focus on improving the capacity of victim service providers and allied practitioners to advance crime victims rights and services in a set of specified priority areas. Those areas included elder abuse; sexual assault; victim restitution; child abuse; youth victimization, including cybercrime victimization; victim services in corrections settings; stalking; and the implications of forensic technologies for victims. The solicitation also explicitly called for training and technical assistance on crime victims rights, signaling an emphasis on ensuring practitioners understand and can help enforce legal rights, access to services, and system-based protections for victims. Taken together, these topics reflect an intent to address both long-standing victimization issues (like child abuse and sexual assault) and emerging or system-complex challenges (like cyber victimization, corrections-based victim services, and the victim-facing consequences of forensic technologies).

The legal authority for this funding came from ARRA (Public Law 111-5) along with specific provisions of the Victims of Crime Act (VOCA) (Public Law 98-473), including sections cited for demonstration projects, training and technical assistance for eligible victim assistance programs, and special workshops to disseminate victim-related information. This framing matters because it clarifies that the government was not only trying to expand services, but also to accelerate improvement and knowledge-sharing across the field using Recovery Act resources, with an emphasis on deliverables that could benefit the broader victim services infrastructure.

In terms of award parameters, the published award floor was $50,000 and the award ceiling was $500,000, and there was no cost sharing or matching requirement listed. The opportunity listed an expected awards value of 0 and an estimated total funding value of 0 in the source data, which typically indicates that at the time of posting the agency had not finalized or publicly populated those totals in the system record, even though it was actively soliciting proposals. The posting date was March 9, 2009, with a current closing date of March 26, 2009, and an archive date of April 25, 2009. The record also notes that the original close date was to be determined while the solicitation was under development, but the final listed deadline became March 26, 2009.

Eligibility was broad across several organizational types that could plausibly deliver national training, technical assistance, or demonstration activities. Eligible applicants included public and state-controlled institutions of higher education, private institutions of higher education, nonprofits with or without 501(c)(3) status (other than institutions of higher education), federally recognized Native American tribal governments, Native American tribal organizations that are not federally recognized governments, and other entities as clarified in the solicitation text. This mix suggests OVC anticipated applications from universities, national and regional nonprofits, tribal entities, and other capable organizations with the infrastructure to produce national-level tools, curricula, technical assistance resources, or demonstration findings.

Applications were required to be submitted through the OJP online Grants Management System (GMS). For broader context on Recovery Act grant programs, applicants were directed to OJP recovery resources online. For technical problems accessing the full announcement or using the system, the solicitation provided GMS Helpdesk contact information (1-888-549-9901, option 3, and GMS.Helpdesk@usdoj.gov). The funding opportunity number associated with this solicitation was OVC 2009 2123.

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