OVC Grant: Implementing and Sustaining the iMPRoVE Project for Victim Service Impact Measurement

OJP is committed to advancing work that promotes civil rights and racial equity, increases access to justice, supports crime victims and individuals impacted by the justice system, strengthens community safety and protects the public from crime and evolving threats and builds trust between law enforcement and the community. The Office for Victims of Crime (OVC) is committed to enhancing the Nation’s capacity to assist crime victims and provide leadership in changing attitudes, policies, and practices to promote justice and healing for all victims of crime. This solicitation seeks to fund one entity to implement, manage, and sustain the Measures for Providers Responding to Victimization Experiences (iMPRoVE) project for victim service providers. The iMPRoVE project provides an assessment survey tool for victim service providers to measure outcomes and assess the effectiveness and quality of services provided to their clients. OVC is working to help drive the victim service field from a focus on effort to a focus on results and effectiveness by creating a standardized approach to measuring the outcomes and quality of services across the field.

To advance Executive Order 13929 Safe Policing for Safe Communities, the Attorney General determined that all state, local, and university or college law enforcement agencies must be certified by an approved independent credentialing body or have started the certification process to be eligible for FY 2022 DOJ discretionary grant funding. To become certified, the law enforcement agency must meet two mandatory conditions: (1) the agency’s use-of-force policies adhere to all applicable federal, state, and local laws and (2) the agency’s use-of-force policies prohibit chokeholds except in situations where use of deadly force is allowed by law. The certification requirement also applies to law enforcement agencies receiving DOJ discretionary grant funding through a subaward. For detailed information on this certification requirement, please visit https://cops.usdoj.gov/SafePolicingEO to access the Standards for Certification on Safe Policing for Safe Communities, the Implementation Fact Sheet, and the List of Designated Independent Credentialing Bodies.

All recipients and subrecipients (including any for-profit organization) must forgo any profit or management fee.

The Office for Victims of Crime (OVC) is committed to enhancing the Nation’s capacity to assist crime victims and provide leadership in changing attitudes, policies, and practices to promote justice and healing for all victims of crime. This solicitation seeks to fund one entity to implement, manage, and sustain the Measures for Providers Responding to Victimization Experiences (iMPRoVE) project for victim service providers. The iMPRoVE project provides an assessment survey tool for victim service providers to measure outcomes and assess the effectiveness and quality of services provided to their clients. OVC is working to help drive the victim service field from a focus on effort to a focus on results and effectiveness by creating a standardized approach to measuring the outcomes and quality of services across the field.