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OVC FY 15 Training and Technical Assistance on Comprehensive Legal Services for Human Trafficking Victims
OVC will make up to two awards of up to $500,000 to expand access to comprehensive legal services for victims of human trafficking through training and technical assistance.
Trafficking victims face an array of legal challenges including:
immigration, family law, employment law, victims’
rights enforcement, civil actions, criminal restitution, and criminal records expungement/vacatur.
Access to trained legal counsel assists victims in increasing their safety, financial security, independence, and self-sufficiency.
Through TTA, this program seeks to expand the capacity of the existing legal services network to meet these critical needs.
Those applying are urged to begin in advance of the June 18, 2015 deadline.
Trafficking victims face an array of legal challenges including:
immigration, family law, employment law, victims’
rights enforcement, civil actions, criminal restitution, and criminal records expungement/vacatur.
Access to trained legal counsel assists victims in increasing their safety, financial security, independence, and self-sufficiency.
Through TTA, this program seeks to expand the capacity of the existing legal services network to meet these critical needs.
Those applying are urged to begin in advance of the June 18, 2015 deadline.
Who's Eligible
Obtain Full Opportunity Text:
OVC Funding Opportunity
Additional Information of Eligibility:
By statute, grants under this program may be awarded to states, federally recognized Indian tribal governments, as determined by the Secretary of the Interior, units of local government, and nonprofit, nongovernmental organizations (including tribal nonprofit and nongovernment organizations).
For the purposes of this program, a unit of local government is any city, county, township, town, borough, parish, village, or other general purpose political subdivision of a state, territory, or federally recognized Indian tribal government.OVC welcomes applications that involve two or more entities; however, one eligible entity must be the applicant and the others must be proposed as subrecipients.The applicant must be the entity with primary responsibility for administering the funding and managing the entire project.
Applicants may submit more than one application, and may be included as subrecipients in multiple proposals.OVC may elect to make awards for applications submitted under this solicitation in future fiscal years, dependent on the merit of the applications and on the availability of appropriations.For additional eligibility information, see Section C.
Eligibility Information.
Full Opportunity Web Address:
http://ovc.ncjrs.gov/Solicitation.aspx
Contact:
For assistance with the requirements of this solicitation, contact Laura Ivkovich, Policy Analyst, by telephone at 202-616-3576.
Agency Email Description:
OVC Policy Analyst
Agency Email:
Laura.Ivkovich@ojp.usdoj.gov
Date Posted:
2015-04-17
Application Due Date:
2015-06-18
Archive Date:
2015-07-18
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