Request for Funds Availability
Victim Services 2022 Consolidated Request for Funding
The Office of Victim Services and Justice Grants is pleased to announce that it is seeking applications for funding to maintain the comprehensive network of trauma-informed services available to victims of crime; to address the issues of domestic violence, dating violence, stalking, and sexual assault in a manner that promotes victim safety and offender accountability; to improve the treatment of victims of crime by providing them with the assistance and services necessary to aid their restoration after a criminal act, and to support and aid victims as they move through the criminal and civil justice processes. The activities funded through this RFA are intended to strengthen a coordinated network of services and referral systems.
Applications can be submitted electronically via ZoomGrants™ and are due on on June 1, 2021 at 11:59pm. For more information, contact Cheryl Bozarth, Deputy Director of Victim Services, Office of Victim Services and Justice Grants at 202-374-6109 or [email protected].
FY2022 Consolidated Request for Applications (RFA) Victim Services Timeline
| RFA release date | April 23, 2021 |
| Pre-bidders webinar | Recording, Presentation Slides |
| RFA question submission deadline | May 21, 2021 |
| Application deadline | June 1, 2021 by 11:59 pm. |
| Application review period | June – July 2021 |
| Anticipated notification of funding decisions | August 2021 |
FY2022 Show Up, Stand Out (SUSO) Program Community-Based Truancy Reduction Grant
The Office of Victim Services and Justice Grants (OVSJG) mission is to develop, fund, and coordinate programs that improve public safety; enhance the administration of justice; and create systems of care for crime victims, youth, and their families in the District. In order to accomplish its mission, OVSJG coordinates and funds community-based and District agency services for victims of crime and returning citizens. Additionally, OVSJG manages efforts that aim to reduce truancy in the District's public and charter schools, and supports juvenile diversion, mentoring, and gang intervention efforts. OVSJG is the State-Administering Agency (SAA) responsible for the direction of systemic criminal justice planning, coordination, management, research, training, and technical assistance. OVSJG also provides policy making expertise, advice, and counsel to the Executive Office of the Mayor on the role of victims and offenders in the criminal justice system, and evidence-based practices to respond to, intervene in, and prevent violence.
In FY22, OVSJG’s Request for Applications (RFA) is for programs centered on addressing truancy in elementary and middle schools through the District’s Show Up, Stand Out (SUSO) program.[1] Eligible applicants can propose to serve elementary and/or middle schools, but are not required to serve both. Additionally, applicants can propose to serve only one middle school. Only qualified non-governmental organizations with prior experience working with DC’s child welfare, youth services, family services, mental health, substance abuse, and/or educational agency professionals are eligible and invited to submit an application. This RFA is released exclusively to execute the Show Up, Stand Out mission and program model with local funds to target elementary and middle school students. The primary target population will be students that were chronically truant[2] during the previous school year (SY20-21) and the secondary target population will be students “at-risk”[3] of becoming truant that have three consecutive to nine unexcused absences with a history of truancy (accumulated five unexcused absences in SY20-21) and their families in Wards 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8. For this proposal, applicants may serve students in more than one Ward to meet program capacity for the elementary and middle school models.
All submissions are due by May 28, 2021 at 11:59pm ET via ZoomGrants TM. For more information contact the Office of Victim Services and Justice Grants at (202) 727-0605 or via e-mail [email protected] with the words “FY22 SUSO RFA” in the subject line
Fiscal Year 2022 (FY22 Show Up, Stand Out Community-Based Truancy Reduction Grant Initiative (RFA) Timeline
| RFA release date | April 23, 2021 |
| Pre-bidders webinar | Recording Presentation Slides |
| RFA Questions and Answers | Q&A (as of May 11, 2021) |
| Application deadline | May 28, 2021 by 11:59pm ET |
| Application review period | June – July 2021 |
| Anticipated notification of funding decisions | August 2021 |
FY2022 Justice Grants Juvenile and Criminal Justice Services Consolidated RFA
The Office of Victim Services and Justice Grants (OVSJG) is accepting applications for FY2022 grant funds for strategies designed to implement juvenile and criminal justice prevention and support programs. Eligible areas for juvenile justice funds include juvenile delinquency prevention, restorative justice programs, juvenile reentry programs, and related juvenile justice system reform programming. Eligible areas for criminal justice funds include reentry services; Project Safe Neighborhoods violent crime prevention, response, and reduction activities; Incarceration Reduction Amendment Act support services; and planning, evaluation, and technology improvement.
Eligible Organizations/Entities: Any public or private, community-based non-profit agency, organization, or institution located in the District of Columbia is eligible to apply, including District government agencies. For profit organizations are eligible but may not include profit in their grant application. For profit organizations may also participate as subcontractors to eligible agencies.
Only District agencies are eligible to apply for certain pass-through, formula funds available under the Byrne Justice Assistance Grant (JAG) Program, the Title II Juvenile Justice Delinquency Prevention (JJDP) Compliance Act, Residential Substance Abuse Treatment (RSAT), Prison Rape Elimination Act (adult and juvenile), and Paul Coverdell Grant Program funds.
Applications can be submitted electronically via ZoomGrants TM and are due are due by May 28, 2021 at 11:59pm ET. For more information contact the Office of Victim Services and Justice Grants at (202) 727-0605 or via e-mail [email protected] with the words “FY22 Justice Grant RFA” in the subject line.
Fiscal Year 2022 (FY22) Justice Grants Juvenile and Criminal Justice Consolidated Request for Applications (RFA) Timeline
| RFA release date | April 23, 2021 |
| Pre-bidders webinar | Recording Presentation Slides |
| RFA Questions and Answers | Q&A (as of May 11, 2021) Deadline for submittting additional questions is May 21, 2021 by 5pm ET |
| Application deadline | May 28, 2021 by 11:59pm ET |
| Application review period | June – July 2021 |
| Anticipated notification of funding decisions | August 2021 |
Historic OVSJG Requests for Application (RFA) - RFA's that were issued in the past three fiscal years.
OVSJG Grant Funding Source Information - Information about funding sources and the grants that OVSJG typically offers.