OVC FY 2018 Field-Generated Innovations in Addressing Elder Abuse and Financial Exploitation | OVC 2018 14340

Opportunity Information: Apply for OVC 2018 14340

The U.S. Department of Justice, Office for Victims of Crime (OVC) released the FY 2018 grant opportunity titled "Field-Generated Innovations in Addressing Elder Abuse and Financial Exploitation" (Funding Opportunity Number OVC 2018 14340). This discretionary funding is offered as a cooperative agreement, meaning awardees should expect an ongoing, active relationship with OVC during the project period rather than a hands-off grant. The overall purpose is to support practical, field-driven innovations that improve how communities identify, stop, and respond to elder financial exploitation, with a particular emphasis on building stronger, more effective connections between the financial industry and victim-serving organizations.

The central focus of the program is elder financial exploitation and the systems that can either prevent it or unintentionally allow it to continue. OVC is looking for applications that propose innovative collaborations involving financial institutions and other partners to better detect fraud and respond quickly and appropriately when exploitation is suspected or confirmed. A key expectation is that projects will strengthen the capacity of both victim service providers and financial industry representatives. On the financial side, this includes improving detection and reporting practices and increasing confidence in how to act when warning signs appear. On the victim services side, it includes ensuring victims can access trauma-informed, age-appropriate services, supports, and resources that reflect the needs and realities of older adults who may be experiencing loss, fear, shame, isolation, cognitive changes, or dependence on caregivers.

Another defining requirement is that proposed projects must be built on collaborative partnerships that are national in scope. In practice, this means OVC is not primarily seeking small, single-jurisdiction efforts. Instead, it is looking for initiatives that can develop or enhance promising practices, models, and programs that can be used broadly across the country. The expectation is that awardees will not only improve services in the places where they operate, but also produce approaches, tools, protocols, or training frameworks that can be adapted and replicated by other communities and institutions. The program sits at the intersection of income security and social services and law, justice, and legal services (CFDA 16.582), reflecting how elder financial exploitation often requires coordinated prevention, victim assistance, and justice system responses.

Funding is structured with an award ceiling of $500,000 per award, and OVC anticipated making up to six awards. The estimated total funding available across all awards was up to $3,000,000. The anticipated period of performance was 24 months, with projects expected to begin on October 1, 2018. The opportunity was posted on June 5, 2018, with an original closing date of July 5, 2018. Eligibility is listed broadly as "Others," with additional eligibility details referenced in the full solicitation, which typically signals that a range of entity types may apply as long as they meet the program's specific criteria and can demonstrate the required national-level partnership and capacity to deliver the proposed work.

Overall, this opportunity is designed to push the field toward better, more coordinated responses to elder financial exploitation by linking the people who see suspicious activity first (often banks and other financial actors) with the people trained to support victims (victim service providers and allied partners). Competitive proposals would be expected to show how collaboration will work in real life, how training and capacity-building will be delivered, and how the project will result in improved detection, improved victim-centered response, and scalable practices that can strengthen protections for older adults nationwide.

• 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 Field-Generated Innovations in Addressing Elder Abuse and Financial Exploitation" 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 Jun 05, 2018.
• Applicants must submit their applications by Jul 05, 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 $500,000.00 in funding.
• The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 6 candidate(s).
• Eligible applicants include: Others (see text field entitled Additional Information on Eligibility for clarification).

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