OVC FY 2018 Enhancing Community Responses to the Opioid Crisis: Serving Our Youngest Crime Victims | OVC 2018 14323

Opportunity Information: Apply for OVC 2018 14323

The OVC FY 2018 Enhancing Community Responses to the Opioid Crisis: Serving Our Youngest Crime Victims grant opportunity is a discretionary funding program from the U.S. Department of Justice, Office for Victims of Crime (OVC). It focuses on strengthening victim-centered, community-driven responses to the opioid crisis, with a specific emphasis on children and youth who are impacted as crime victims. The program is designed to help communities build or expand practical, coordinated strategies that address the harms opioids are causing to the youngest victims, while also capturing and spreading lessons learned so effective approaches can be replicated elsewhere.

This opportunity is structured around two separate purpose areas. Purpose Area 1 is geared toward community or jurisdiction-level applicants that will directly plan, implement, and carry out services and supports for children and youth affected by the opioid crisis. The intent is not only to fund direct local action, but also to ensure those local efforts are strengthened through collaboration with an OVC-designated national training and technical assistance (TTA) provider. That partnership is meant to help communities refine their approaches, solve implementation problems, and document what works, ultimately adding to the broader knowledge base about how best to serve young victims in opioid-impacted environments. In practical terms, Purpose Area 1 is about on-the-ground service delivery and systems coordination for children, youth, and the community networks that support them.

Purpose Area 2 is designed to operate at a national level and supports applicants that will provide broader assistance to the Purpose Area 1 sites. Rather than delivering direct services in a single community, Purpose Area 2 recipients are expected to develop and activate plans that equip and support the community-based programs funded under Purpose Area 1. The emphasis here is on scaling support across multiple locations by providing guidance, resources, and capacity-building assistance as local programs launch new initiatives or strengthen existing ones. This creates a two-tiered model: communities implement and test approaches locally under Purpose Area 1, while a national-level effort under Purpose Area 2 helps those communities succeed and encourages consistency, quality improvement, and shared learning across sites.

The opportunity falls under the broad activity categories of Income Security and Social Services as well as Law, Justice, and Legal Services, and it is associated with CFDA number 16.582. The funding instrument is a grant, and the program anticipates making approximately 33 awards. The maximum award amount listed (award ceiling) is $2,500,000, signaling that OVC is willing to fund substantial efforts that can demonstrate meaningful impact and generate useful practices for the field. Eligibility is listed as "Others," with additional eligibility clarification referenced in the full solicitation materials, meaning applicants would need to consult the official announcement text to confirm whether they qualify under OVCs specific criteria for this program.

Key dates and administrative details are also clearly defined. The opportunity was created on May 30, 2018, and the original application closing date is July 10, 2018. OVC also scheduled a pre-application webinar to help potential applicants understand expectations and submission requirements; it was set for June 6, 2018, at 1:00 p.m. Eastern Time, with registration provided through OVCs webinar page (www.ovc.gov/grants/webinars.html). The funding opportunity number is OVC 2018 14323, which applicants would use to identify the solicitation in federal systems and ensure they are responding to the correct program.

Overall, the grant is positioned as a coordinated national effort to respond to the opioid crisis through a victim services lens, centered on children and youth. It combines direct community implementation with structured national support so local programs are not working in isolation, and it places explicit value on strengthening practice, documenting outcomes, and elevating strategies that can inform future responses to opioid-related victimization.

• The Department of Justice, Office for Victims of Crime in the income security and social services, law, justice and legal services sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "OVC FY 2018 Enhancing Community Responses to the Opioid Crisis: Serving Our Youngest Crime Victims" and is now available to receive applicants.
• Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 16.582.
• This funding opportunity was created on May 30, 2018.
• Applicants must submit their applications by Jul 10, 2018. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
• Each selected applicant is eligible to receive up to $2,500,000.00 in funding.
• The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 33 candidate(s).
• Eligible applicants include: Others (see text field entitled Additional Information on Eligibility for clarification).

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