The vermont center for crime victim services (VCCVS) will implement the enhanced database and accounting system & paper reduction project to expand and enhance the use of technology within the ccvc…

The Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs Victims of Crime awarded $218,385 to the Vermont Center for Crime Victim Services as a Cooperative Agreement on October 1, 2025, under the Crime Victim Assistance/Discretionary Grants program (CFDA 16.582).

The recipient will implement the Enhanced Database and Accounting System & Paper Reduction Project to modernize technology infrastructure within Vermont's victim compensation program. Work includes upgrading the current software platform (CCVC2, a VPN-based system) to CCVC3, a web-based SSL application hosted on Azure; integrating the new system with the state accounting system to expedite vendor and victim payments; enhancing pay codes to establish maximum payout amounts; providing victim advocates with access to point-in-time restitution amounts; and consolidating 35 years of paper claims by digitizing records and using CCVC3 as the single repository for all case management information, past and current.

Performance occurs in Waterbury, Vermont, with a period of performance from October 1, 2025, through September 30, 2028. The Crime Victim Assistance program supports development, expansion, and strengthening of victim service programs for all crime victims throughout the United States and its territories through discretionary grants drawn from the Crime Victims Fund.

The vermont center for crime victim services (VCCVS) will implement the enhanced database and accounting system & paper reduction project to expand and enhance the use of technology within the ccvc system for the victim compensation program. Project activities include: upgrading the current software from CCVC2, a VPN-based system, to CCVC3, a web-based SSL, azure hosted APP, integrating with the state accounting system to facilitate speedy and prompt payment to vendors/victims, enhancing pay codes to set maximum pay out amounts, providing access to point-in-time restitution amounts to victim advocates, and consolidating 35 years of paper claims by reducing unnecessary hardcopy files and utilizing ccvc only to be the receptacle to hold all case management information, both old and new.