An Evidence-Based Approach to Understanding and Addressing Vicarious Trauma in Victim Assistance Professionals, Law Enforcement Officers and Other First Responders

 
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    CFDA#

    16.582     		 

    Funder Type

    Federal Government

    IT Classification

    B - Readily funds technology as part of an award

    Authority

    U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), Office of Justice Programs (OJP), Office for Victims of Crime (OVC)

    Summary

    Through the An Evidence-Based Approach to Understanding and Addressing Vicarious Trauma in Victim Assistance Professionals, Law Enforcement Officers and Other First Responders (AVT) project, the Office for Victims of Crime (OVC) will support the examination, assessment, identification, and pilot testing of evidence-based policies, practices, procedures, and protocols designed to facilitate an understanding and comprehensive addressing of vicarious (or secondary) traumatic stress in victim assistance professionals, law enforcement personnel, and other first responders who are subject to the impact of traumatic stress due to large-scale incidents of criminal mass violence or a series of exposures to an accumulation of traumatizing incidents. The goal of the project is ultimately to identify and test the effectiveness of state-of-the-art training and technical assistance to the victim assistance, law enforcement, and other first responder fields.

     

    History of Funding

    None is available

    Additional Information

    The objectives of this project are the following:

    •  Assess which policies, practices, procedures, and protocols have evidence of their effectiveness in understanding and addressing trauma. This assessment may include mental health and wellness prevention and treatment, cultural competency for mental health professionals, programmatic models, peer to peer support standards, a variety of training materials (such as executive-level awareness training, recognition of traumatic stress symptoms, targeting individual officer’s needs, peer support programs, and suicide prevention programs), budgetary policies, labor and disability law and policy, etc.
    • Identify existing resources that will effectively provide the stated outcomes. Conduct gap analysis that includes assessment results, existing resources, and needed resources that do not currently exist.
    • Develop and compile the technical assistance toolkit resources.
    • Develop a national-scope, multi-site pilot testing plan to implement, evaluate, and finetune the technical assistance toolkit.

    Contacts

    Meg Morrow

    Meg Morrow
    810 Seventh Street NW
    Washington , DC 20531
    202-353-0591
     

  • Eligibility Details

    Eligible applicants are limited to private nonprofit organizations (including tribal nonprofit organizations), colleges and universities (including tribal institutions of higher education), tribal governments, and tribal organizations. Applicants must demonstrate the knowledge and experience necessary to develop a national scope, state-of-the-art training and technical assistance project that focuses on understanding and addressing vicarious trauma in victim assistance professionals, law enforcement officers, and other first responders; and to disseminate the information to the field.

    Deadline Details

    The application deadline is June 13, 2013.

    Award Details

    OVC anticipates that it will make one award of up to $1,250,000 for a 24-month project period. Continuation funding for an additional 12−24 months may be awarded depending on grantee performance in the first 24-month phase and the availability of funding. Cost sharing is not required.

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