Recovery Act - VOCA Crime Victim Assistance Discretionary Grant Program

The Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs Victims of Crime administers the Recovery Act - VOCA Crime Victim Assistance Discretionary Grant Program (CFDA 16.807), which last disbursed awards in October 2009. This program is not currently active for new applications. The portfolio shows 13 cooperative agreements totaling $5 million in federal obligations, all issued in a single funding cycle between August and October 2009. No recent grant opportunities are open.

The program funded national-scope training, technical assistance, and demonstration projects designed to improve the capacity of victim service providers and allied practitioners. Funded activities included hospital-based youth violence intervention training, elder abuse training through Adult Protective Services, forensic DNA victim impact training, stalking technology training, victim restitution peer education, cold case homicide survivor support, transgender sexual violence victim services, child abuse staff resiliency programming, training for corrections staff on victim-related practices, and web-based training for forensic examiners addressing drug-facilitated sexual assault. The program emphasized addressing identified gaps in the field and developing promising practices across domains including elder abuse, sexual assault, victim restitution, child abuse, youth victimization including cybercrime, victim services in corrections, stalking, forensic technologies, and crime victims' rights. All projects were also designed to further American Recovery and Reinvestment Act objectives around job preservation, economic recovery, and stabilization of state and local government budgets.

Funding was entirely concentrated within the Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs Victims of Crime. All 13 awards were structured as Cooperative Agreements, with individual award magnitudes ranging from approximately $186 thousand to $500 thousand. Representative recent awards include the Underserved Teen Victims Initiative ($500 thousand), the National Adult Protective Services Elder Abuse Training Project ($497,922), and Training for Community Corrections on Promising Victim-Related Practices and Strategies ($363,644).

This program appears dormant. The most recent award is 17 years old, and the source contains no active solicitations or planned funding announcements.