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During this briefing, Director Rose shared information about our Victims of Crime Act (VOCA) Victim Compensation and Victim Assistance Data Dashboards, the September 25 observance of the National Day of Remembrance for Murder Victims, recent site visits, the Crime Victims Fund, and more!

During this briefing, Director Rose shared information about recent site visits, the Crime Victims Fund, and more!

This webinar will provide helpful closeout tips about JustGrants, final progress reports and performance data, deliverables, financial reconciliation, retention of documents, and more.

OVC Director Kristina Rose shares information about the 2025 National Crime Victims’ Rights Week, the Crime Victims Fund, upcoming meetings and events, recent site visits, and more!

This webinar provides information for VOCA administrators about OVC’s match waiver policy and how to complete the match waiver spreadsheet. This webinar was hosted by The OVC Center for VOCA Administrators.

OVC Director Kristina Rose shares information about 2025 National Crime Victims’ Rights Week, the recently released OVC FY24 Meeting the Basic Needs of Crime Victims in Underserved Communities solicitation, the Crime Victims Fund, the 40th Anniversary of the Victims of Crime Act, a recent site visit, and more!

OVC Director Kristina Rose provides updates about OVC funding opportunities, the 18th National Indian Nations Conference, Missing or Murdered Indigenous Persons Awareness Day, the Crime Victims Fund, and more!

Learn about the civil rights protections and requirements for faith-based organizations receiving federal financial assistance as well as the enforcement authority of the Office of Justice Programs’ Office for Civil Rights.

Jocelyn Mejia is a social worker with the Imperial County Department of Social Services, Children and Families Division in California. She has worked in child welfare for 8 years, and currently works on complex and Indian Child Welfare Act cases in Imperial County, a border community in a rural area adjoining Mexico, the State of Arizona, three California counties, and a Tribal reservation. Ms. Mejia has been instrumental in ensuring that the youngest victims of crime are treated with love, respect, and care.

Herman Millholland is an independent consultant with more than 22 years of comprehensive management experience specializing in criminal justice and victim services initiatives. As a consultant and national victim advocate, Mr. Millholland uses his strategic planning, financial management, board and fund development, and training and technical assistance experience to provide guidance and advice on public policy matters.

Aswad Thomas is a community organizer, crime victim advocate, public safety policy expert, and a survivor of gun violence. Throughout his career, Mr. Thomas has brought unprecedented awareness of the unique and urgent needs of victims who are most impacted by crime and violence but who have been historically underserved, with a focus on addressing unaddressed trauma.

Elijah Lee is a 16-year-old, and a national advocate for children. His activism started at the age of 10 years old, as he led his first child abuse awareness march, where he rallied the community and educated others about its prevalence. Elijah founded a nonprofit organization, Hear Our Voices, in 2021, dedicated to empowering young people with an emphasis on assisting youth to find their voices and become agents of change.

Angela McCown is director of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) Victim Services Division (VSD), has more than 30 years of experience in the victim services field, and has helped hundreds of thousands crime victims participate in the criminal justice system and thousands of the professionals who serve them. Under Ms. McCown’s direction, the TDCJ VSD has implemented a variety of innovative strategies and programs to better meet the needs of crime victims.

Michelle Ballan is a Professor and Associate Dean for Research at the School of Social Welfare; Professor of Family, Population and Preventive Medicine at Renaissance School of Medicine; Research Director for the Stony Brook Early Childhood Clinic; and Director of the Leadership Education in Neurodevelopmental and related Disabilities (LEND) Center at Stony Brook University. Her research and practice focus on the identification and amelioration of barriers impacting the health and well-being of individuals with disabilities and their families. Her groundbreaking work has led to numerous publications delineating the negative impact of intimate partner violence on men and women with disabilities and best practices for service provision.

Joan Meunier-Sham is the director of the Massachusetts Department of Public Health’s Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner (SANE) Program and is responsible for the statewide delivery of acute adult and adolescent SANE services in 52 Massachusetts hospitals, and the delivery of Pediatric SANE services in 10 of the state’s 12 Children’s Advocacy Centers. She was also the co-director of the National TeleNursing Center (NTC), a pilot project funded by the U.S. Department of Justice, Office for Victims of Crime. In this pioneering project, expert SANEs at the NTC used telehealth technology to provide 24/7 “real time” support and guidance to clinicians conducting forensic examinations for adult and adolescent sexual assault patients in underserved communities.

The Hope Research Center partners with service organizations to develop, test, and implement a trauma-informed and hope-centered framework to improve outcomes for victims and their families. This research also examines hope as a protective factor against burnout, secondary traumatic stress, and turnover among service providers. The Center offers hope research strategies, including evaluations and applied research projects customized to the needs of an organization and focused on improving program services and achieving client outcomes.

During the briefing, Director Rose shared information about 2024 National Crime Victims’ Rights Week commemoration events, the Crime Victims Fund, and more!

This 2024 National Crime Victims’ Rights Week (NCVRW) theme video is a call-to-action for us all to create safe environments for crime victims to share what happened to them. By doing so, we’re able to offer support, options for life-saving services, and, most importantly, hope. Use this video during your 2024 NCVRW events or share it throughout the year on your website and social media channels, or at public awareness, education, and training events to advance victims’ rights and services.

This 2024 National Crime Victims’ Rights Week (NCVRW) theme video is a call-to-action for us all to create safe environments for crime victims to share what happened to them. By doing so, we’re able to offer support, options for life-saving services, and, most importantly, hope. Use this video during your 2024 NCVRW events or share it throughout the year on your website and social media channels, or at public awareness, education, and training events to advance victims’ rights and services.

Learn about obligations as a federal grant award recipient pertaining to civil rights compliance requirements as it relates to language access as well as the enforcement authority of the Office of Justice Programs’ Office for Civil Rights.

During the briefing, Director Rose shared more about OVC’s site visit to Puerto Rico and discussed the President’s Budget for Fiscal Year 2025 and its impact on the Crime Victims Fund.

This OVC webinar provides guidance for reporting on the required performance measures for Tribal Victim Services Set-Aside Program grantees. Members of OVC’s performance management team provide an overview of performance reporting requirements, processes for accessing the Performance Measurement Tool system, entering quarterly performance measures, generating the semiannual PDF report, completing semiannual MMIP measures and submitting semiannual performance reports in JustGrants, along with additional resources.

Learn about obligations as a federal grant award recipient pertaining to civil rights compliance requirements as well as the enforcement authority of the Office of Justice Programs’ Office for Civil Rights.

Learn about training and technical assistance (TTA) available to all OVC anti-trafficking grantees on Legal Support, Labor Trafficking, Survivor Engagement, and Economic Empowerment. TTA providers will share details on the resources and assistance they can provide and how to access these services.