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22PR08: Facilitated Dialogue Program Training Curricula Development and Pilot

Closed Closed August 15, 2022 Opportunity 22PR08 ☆ Save

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• Award ceiling$150,000
• Total funding$150,000
• Expected awards1
• Cost sharingNot required
• Funding typeCooperative Agreement

Key dates

Who can apply

This opportunity was open to the applicants described in the notice.

• Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification)

NIC invites applications from nonprofit organizations (including faith-based, community, and tribal organizations), for-profit organizations (including tribal for-profit organizations), and institutions of higher education (including tribal institutions of higher education). Recipients, including for-profit organizations, must agree to waive any profit or fee for services. Foreign governments, international organizations, and non-governmental international organizations/institutions are not eligible to apply. Proof of 501(c) (3) status as determined by the Internal Revenue Service or an authorizing tribal resolution is required.NIC welcomes applications that involve two or more entities; however, one eligible entity must be the applicant and the others must be proposed as subrecipients. The applicant must be the entity with primary responsibility for administering the funding and managing the entire program. Only one (1) application will be accepted from a submitting organization.

Is this a realistic fit?

• No cost sharing or match is required.

What the grant funds

Over the years, the National Institute of Corrections has created and provided post-conviction victim services resources that support the Victim Services Coordinators within the 50 state departments of correction. These coordinators are responsible for a wide range of services, many of which are mandated under state constitutions, statutes, and/or administrative rules. One such service is a provision that brings together the victim/survivor (or surviving family member) of a violent crime and the person who committed the crime—giving victims and survivors the opportunity to share how the crime has affected their lives and ask questions to which they have never been given answers. This type of interaction can be very delicate and requires specially trained facilitators to ensure the best outcome for all parties involved. Throughout the country, this type of post-conviction victim service process is referred to by many names, including Victim Offender Dialogue (VOD), Victim Offender Mediation (VOM), Victim Offender Mediation/Dialogue (VOMD), Facilitated Dialogue, and others. At least twenty-six states currently have or are required to have a facilitated dialogue program; however, very few of those states have a formalized training program for facilitators and most have not been authorized the additional funding needed to create one. In addition, many of these programs operate using a combination of agency personnel and local volunteers, or strictly volunteers, which further complicates the issue and requires training to be offered on a regular basis as volunteers relocate or otherwise become unavailable.

Category: Other.

We found no grant awards under Assistance Listing 16.601 in fiscal 2021 to 2025, which usually means the program is new or very small.

Applying now

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