Restore
VOCA Funding .
. . Victim advocates
have been working to restore VOCA assistance funding to the same
amount received in
2006. So far, Congress appears to be heading in the right direction. The
Senate and House Appropriations Committees have each taken important,
positive steps towards restoring full funding for VOCA victim
assistance
grants. And both have explicitly rejected
the Administration's proposal to rescind the entire Crime Victims
Fund Balance.
Heading in the Right Direction
On
June 19, the
Senate Appropriations Committee reported out
its 2009 appropriations bill for the Department
of Justice including a VOCA cap of $635 million. While
this is $45 million more than the 2008
cap, state assistance grants would still be
$52 million less than the 2006 amounts.
On June 25, the House Appropriations
Committee approved its bill with the VOCA cap set at $650 million. In
addition, the House bill includes a separate non_VOCA appropriation
for Office of Justice Programs management and administration,
a cost that was taken from the Crime Victims Fund for the first
time
in 2008. The
House bill is a great improvement but leaves state assistance
grants $8.2 million less than 2006.
A $660 million
cap without OJP management costs will restore VOCA assistance
grants.
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Crime
Victims Fund Report Analysis of the Crime
Victims Fund which provides the funding for VOCA programs, including
long-term projections and challenges of sustaining these programs.
[Read here]
What's
New for Members' Only . . .
2008 VOCA
Assistance National Training Conference
This year's conference
for exclusively for state administrators and staff that
manage VOCA victim assistance grants
will be held in Buffalo,
NY, September
17 - 19,
2008.
Click
here
for more information. |
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Subgrant Monitoring
Toolkit . . . Prepared under a grant from OVC,
the Toolkit contains important information on developing and
implementing effective subgrant monitoring policies and practices.
The Toolkit includes many examples of forms, policies and related
documents that can be modified for use in any State, actual case histories
of monitoring experiences, a glossary, and OJP Financial Monitoring
Guide. Printed and CD versions of the Toolkit are being sent
to all VOCA assistance administrative agencies. Members
can click here for online versions of the Toolkit. |
