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The Office for Victims of Crime provides an annual grant from the Crime Victims Fund to each State and eligible territory for the financial support of services to crime victims by eligible crime victim assistance programs. The performance measures for this assistance listing are: 1.Number of victims served through the VOCA Victim Assistance program 2.Number of times that services were provided to victims of crime through the Victim Assistance program.
This chart shows obligations for the program by fiscal year. All data for this chart was provided by the
administering agency and sourced from SAM.gov, USASpending.gov, and Treasury.gov.
For more information on each of these data sources, please see the
About the data page.
The Crime Victims Fund remains the cornerstone upon which support for victim services rests. Administered by the Office for Victims of Crime (OVC), the Fund provides help, hope, and healing to hundreds of thousands of crime victims each year, mainly through funding for programs that provide direct assistance to help victims rebuild their lives. Because of this program, hundreds of thousands of crime victims are able to receive necessary services each year.
• Federal Victim Emergency Funds ($380K) enabled partnering agencies to support victim expenses in emergency situations, including temporary shelter, transportation, and crisis intervention. These funds allow agencies to address unique emergency victim service problems or populations within their jurisdictions. • Training and Technical Assistance ($1M) enabled partnering agencies to support training and technical assistance costs focusing on specific victimization issues. • Supporting Victims in High Profile Trials with Large Numbers of Victims ($250K) provided assistance to ensure that victims of federal crime were afforded their right to observe and be reasonably heard in high profile criminal justice proceedings with large numbers of victims. • National Domestic Violence Housing Technical Assistance Consortium ($2M) provided funding to support the collaboration with the Departments of Justice, Housing and Urban Development, and Health and Human Services for federal technical assistance and resource development. The purpose of this federal collaboration is to provide support and encouragement to help grantees and subgrantees build meaningful partnerships with local domestic violence programs, state domestic violence coalitions, and housing service providers with domestic violence programs to implement trauma-informed housing programming.
In FY2020 nearly 500 awards were made to help improve victim services through out the Nation.
Single Audit Applies (2 CFR Part 200 Subpart F):
For additional information on single audit requirements for this program, review the current Compliance Supplement.
OMB is working with the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) and agency offices of inspectors general to include links to relevant oversight reports. This section will be updated once this information is made available.
