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2022-23 Victim Advocacy in Detention Facilities (KA) Program RFP

Governor's Office of Emergency Services · 9803

Eligibility details

Only Cal OES-funded Rape Crisis (RC) Program Subrecipients are eligible to apply.

Matching funds & resources

Source matching-funds field: 20%. Applicants may request a partial or full match waiver (match waiver requests are not considered during the Proposal Rating process). To request a match wavier for more than one VOCA fund source, Applicants must submit the VOCA Match Waiver Request form (Attachment A) with their proposal. All sections of the form must be completed. Answers to questions 9 through 11 must be specific and unique to the Applicant and Program.

Matching funds and leveraged resources are different requirements. Read the description and reviewed rules below before determining resource commitments.

About this opportunity

The purpose of the KA Program is to increase access to appropriate services for victims of sexual assault in detention facilities. For the purposes of this RFP, local detention facilities include adult detention facilities, juvenile detention facilities, and immigration detention facilities. Subrecipients may work with one or more detention facilities in their service area. The KA Program requires each Subrecipient to fund a Sexual Assault Counselor, per Evidence Code 1035.2, to solely focus on serving victims in local detention facilities, and to act as a point of contact for detention facility staff to assist in removing any physical or programmatic barriers to services for victims.

Funding geography: All California counties.

Funding instrument: Grant. Issuing jurisdiction: California. This is not a geographic eligibility determination.