Recent News
2025 National Crime Victims’ Rights Week Community Awareness Projects!
Please see the below announcement and attachment from our NAVAA colleagues. “We are excited to announce the application is open for 2025 National Crime Victims’ Rights Week Community Awareness Projects! The National Association of VOCA Assistance Administrators (NAVAA), in cooperation with the Office for Victims of Crime (OVC), is seeking proposals for innovative and collaborative […]
VAWA – 30th Anniversary!
Happy Friday. You may have all heard that the White House is planning a 30th anniversary of VAWA celebration at the White House with Joe and Jill Biden on September 12th, 2024 at 5:45p.m. It is my understanding that it is an invitation-only event. Two friends of mine have been invited to attend. One is […]
AVA Announces new Executive Director!
Good afternoon, On behalf of the Association of VAWA Administrators (AVA) Board of Directors, I am excited to share with each of you that we have recently hired Arlene Vassell to serve as the new AVA Executive Director! Arlene Vassell (she/her) brings over 25 years of experience as a strategist, administrator, facilitator and trainer. A nationally recognized […]
STOP and SASP Allocations
See below for links to the State and Territory allocations for both the STOP and the SASP Formula Grants in the event that you may not have seen them yet. Have a great weekend! Barry FY 2024 STOP Allocations FY 2024 SASP Allocations
AVA Board Members Effective Immediately
Good morning and an early Happy Fourth of July! Following AVA’s Annual Meeting last week, nomination ballots were completed by AVA members. A link to the list of current AVA Board members is below this email. On July 19th, 2024, the new Board will meet for the first time and elect officers. We will send […]
Crime Victims Fund Stabilization Act of 2024
Good afternoon. I hope you are well and almost ready to start a relaxing weekend. Earlier this week, I participated in an NCJA webinar that in part focused on the Crime Victims Fund. Because so many of you or co-workers within your agency also administer VOCA, I wanted to give you a summary of some of […]
President Biden’s FY25 Budget re VAWA
Good morning/afternoon. President Biden’s FY25 Budget was released today and posted on the OMB’s website. I am sharing two links that provide more specific detail about this budget. The following link is a 44 page document that is the DOJ Appendix for the FY25 Budget. You can find VAWA specific information starting at the bottom of page […]
AVA Executive Director Position
The AVA Board of Directors is excited to announce that we are searching for our next Executive Director. Our current ED, Barry Bryant has expressed his desire to retire by August of this year. The AVA ED position is a part-time position that requires about 25-30 hours each week and allows interested individuals to work […]
Crime Data – Published by the Council of State Governments Justice Center
Good morning! I am sharing a link with you today related to data gathered and published by the Council of State Governments Justice Center through a BJA funded project. A special thanks to NCJA for sharing the data with me. Primarily the data relates to crime trends from 2021 and 2022. If I were still […]
NCJA Podcast on Engaging Tribal Communities
About a week ago, I was listening to an NCJA podcast from June of 2023. The podcast seemed like something that new VAWA Administrators may find helpful and useful as they begin thinking about and planning for their first/next Implementation Plan (IP). This particular podcast focuses on engaging tribal communities and offers suggestions for building […]