Restore
VOCA Funding .
. . Congress's 2008 Consolidated Appropriations
Act will cause further devastating
reductions
in state
VOCA victim
assistance
grants. The bill set the 2008 cap on total Crime Victims
Fund spending at $590 million, the lowest cap in six years. Along
with increases in other VOCA uses and new assessments being charged
to the Fund, state VOCA victim assistance grants are likely
to be about $81 million less than they were in 2007. But wait, there's more... if the
Administration's 2009 budget request is approved, victim assistance
grants will
suffer even more cuts...another $53 million, which would make
total cuts of $159 million (40 percent) since 2006...PLUS...there
would
be no
money for victim services in
the
Fund
at
the
beginning
of
2010. Victim advocates are working to restore
VOCA assistance funding by asking Congress to set the 2009 VOCA
cap at a level
that returns state VOCA assistance grants to the amounts received
in 2006. >>Click
here for more detailed information to "Restore VOCA
Funding"<<
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. |
