OpportunityTitle: Vision 21: Law Enforcement and the Communities They Serve: Supporting Collective Healing in the Wake of Harm
AdditionalInformationOnEligibility: Eligible applicants are limited to private nonprofit organizations, including but not limited to those that work with law enforcement and on criminal justice issues. Applicants must have demonstrated knowledge, expertise, and experience in advancing trauma-informed law enforcement response to victimization, particularly with incidents involving police-involved shootings, and other high-profile and crisis incidents. Additionally, applicants must be able to identify and work with key stakeholders and effectively select and manage a minimum of six law enforcement demonstration sites that will address the impact of trauma within the law enforcement organization and in community responses. Applicants should also have experience in providing technical assistance on trauma-informed culture and responses by law enforcement agencies, and in strategic planning, community collaboration, and coalition building. OVC welcomes applications that involve two or more entities that will carry out the funded federal award activities; however, one eligible entity must be the applicant and the other(s) must be proposed as subrecipient(s). The applicant must be the entity with primary responsibility for administering the funding and managing the entire project. Only one application per lead applicant will be considered; however, a subrecipient may be part of multiple proposals.OVC may elect to make awards for applications submitted under this solicitation in future fiscal years, dependent on, among other considerations, the merit of the applications and on the availability of appropriations.
Description: OVC will make up $7 million available; of which at least $5 million must be directed to the competitive selection of at least six law enforcement agency demonstration sites in small, medium and large population areas (to be defined by the applicant). The additional funding should be directed to two areas: (1) oversight, administration and technical assistance for the demonstration sites that includes convening of grantee meetings and the development and dissemination of a practical resource guide or compendium at the end of the project; and (2) Up to $500,000 to provide rapid response technical assistance and other resources to other law enforcement agencies and their communities in the aftermath of a law enforcement-involved shooting/high-profile incident.
GrantorContactEmailDescription: For Programmatic Questions
GrantorContactText: Lindsay Waldrop, Victim Justice Program Specialist, by telephone at 202-353-0486. &lt;br/&gt;Beatrice.L.Waldrop@ojp.usdoj.gov &lt;br/&gt;