OVC FY25 Invited to Apply Antiterrorism and Emergency Assistance Program for Crime Victim Compensation and/or Assistance - Wisconsin Crisis Response
Closed Posted
- Opportunity number
- O-OVC-2025-172444
- Agency
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Victims of Crime
Office of Justice Programs, Department of Justice
- Applications due
- Award size
- Up to $1,364,315
Opportunity facts
- Assistance listings
- Funding instrument
- Grant
- Category
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- Income Security and Social Services
- Eligible applicants
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- Other
- Points of contact
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- OJP Response Center ojp.responsecenter@usdoj.gov (800) 851-3420
- Full announcement
Opportunity details come from Grants.gov. Updated .
About this opportunity
The Office for Victims of Crime (OVC) is seeking applications for the Antiterrorism Emergency Assistance Program (AEAP) to support victims of mass violence and terrorism in Wisconsin. This grant opportunity focuses on providing comprehensive victim services, including crisis response, consequence management, criminal justice support, and crime victim compensation. The program is specifically designed for incidents that are sufficiently large in scope and overwhelm local resources, with a particular emphasis on unpredictable, indiscriminate, or broadly targeted violent events. Eligible applicants must demonstrate the inability to provide needed services to victims using existing resources. The application deadline is September 5, 2025, with the Department of Justice's Office of Justice Programs serving as the administering agency. Evaluation criteria will likely focus on the applicant's capacity to deliver comprehensive victim support, the scope and impact of the incident, and the proposed approach to victim assistance.
While specific award amounts are not explicitly stated in the opportunity, the Antiterrorism Emergency Reserve program typically provides grants ranging from $750,000 to $8.9 million, with performance periods between 24 and 36 months. The place of performance will be in Wisconsin, targeting the specific locale affected by the mass violence or terrorism incident. The grant is designed to provide immediate and long-term support to victims, covering services such as mental health treatment, victim compensation, and comprehensive victim support. The funding is intended to be a supplemental resource that addresses the unique challenges posed by large-scale criminal incidents that exceed local jurisdictional capabilities.
Synopsis
The Office for Victims of Crime (OVC) supports victims of mass violence and terrorism through the Antiterrorism Emergency Assistance Program (AEAP). Funding for this program comes from the Antiterrorism Emergency Reserve (the Emergency Reserve). Along with non-grant training and technical assistance services, there are four types of grants that may be combined into one application: crisis response, consequence management, criminal justice support, and crime victim compensation. AEAP grants are a mechanism by which the Director of OVC may award supplemental crime victim compensation and assistance to eligible entities responding to acts of mass criminal violence or domestic terrorism. The event must be sufficiently large that the jurisdiction cannot provide needed services to victims of the incident with existing resources, while also supporting victims of other crimes, in a timely and comprehensive manner. OVC generally accesses AEAP funds only in response to incidents that are sufficiently large in scope for the locale, and typically only where there was an unpredictable, indiscriminate, or broad targeting of victims, or otherwise unique aspect to the crime. In most cases, OVC expects States and communities to plan for and address victim needs stemming from relatively more predictable instances of gang-related violence, domestic violence, and broader community gun violence, from existing VOCA resources.
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