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Who?The Office for Victims of Crime works to provide leadership and enhance the Nation's capacity to assist crime victims in ways that will promote justice and healing for all victims. OVC distributes federal program funds, offers trainings, supports national projects, and hosts programs to help raise awareness about victims’ rights and services to the public.
What?OVC provides funding for the demonstration grantees and has provided NIJ with the funding to evaluate the demonstration effort. OVC also provides grantees with ongoing guidance and direction, as well as reviews and approves project plans and documents.
ContactBethany [email protected]
Lindsay [email protected]
Who?The National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges works to improve the lives of children and families who seek justice. NCJFCJ has provided TTA for initiatives involving multiple organizations and spanning a wide range of topics.
What?NCJFCJ is providing training and technical assistance to the two demonstration sites. NCJFCJ will help the grantees establish their networks, design and implement the needs assessments/gap analyses, and develop and implement the service delivery strategy. It will also convene a National Steering Committee to share information, coordinate TTA, and develop materials to assist in future replication efforts.
ContactEryn [email protected]
Crystal [email protected]
Michele [email protected]
Who?OVC funded two demonstration projects, in Montana and Virginia, which include grantees and their partners. They are working to develop a consistent and coordinated approach to effectively identify, assess, and provide comprehensive services to youth victims and their families.
What?Each grantee’s network will develop replicable and sustainable statewide system of care frameworks to identify and serve youth victims and their families. They will identify the states’ service needs through needs assessments/gap analyses and then design and implement new strategies based on systems of care frameworks.
ContactNikki Camp (Montana)[email protected]
Nancy Fowler (Virginia)[email protected]
Who?The National Institute of Justice — the research, development, and evaluation agency of the U.S. Department of Justice — is dedicated to improving knowledge and understanding of crime and justice issues through science. NIJ provides objective and independent knowledge and tools to reduce crime and promote justice, particularly at the state and local levels.
What?NIJ provided ICF with a grant to carry out the evaluation and is responsible for overseeing ICF on the overall evaluation effort. NIJ is also lending technical expertise and research insight to ICF.
ContactDara [email protected]
Who?ICF partners with diverse clients to deliver research, programmatic support, technology services, and other assistance in a number of markets, including criminal justice. The ICF team has worked with NIJ and OVC on other victim-centered research and been involved in other studies of systems of care approaches.
What?ICF is conducting a national study of the demonstration project to provide critical information back to the project partners and for future replication efforts. As part of the study, ICF will be working with the grantees and their partners to collect data about project activities and outcomes.
ContactSara [email protected]
Mary [email protected]
Demonstration Sites
Linking Systems of Care for Children and YouthDemonstration Project Organizational Chart
Office for Victimsof Crime
National Institute of Justice
U.S. Department of Justice,Office of Justice Programs
NCJFCJ TTA
Leadership Team
Training and Technical Assistance National Study
ICF Leadership
Team
ICF Research
Team
Steering Committee
TTA Site Teams1
ICF Site Liaisons
Montana Board of Crime
Control
Virginia Department of
Social Services
Children’s Systems of Care
Planning Committee
Partner Agencies Team
1 TTA Site Teams consist of 4 members per site (1 facilitator from Steering Committee, 1 Coordinator and 1 TTA Provider from NCJFCJ, and 1 TTA Provider from NCCTS).
2 The University of Montana is assisting the Montana site by identifying screening tools.
University of Montana2
VA Dept. of Criminal Justice
Services3
Stakeholder Partners
Advisory Panel
3 While the Virginia Department of Social Services (DSS) is the grantee, both the DSS and the Virginia Department of Criminal Justice Services (DCJS) co-lead the Partner Agencies Team (PAT). Additional stakeholder partners are also incorporated into the system of care network.
