Who? The Office for Victims of Crime works to provide leadership and enhance the Nation's capacity to assist crime victims in ways that will promote justice and healing for all victims. OVC distributes federal program funds, offers trainings, supports national projects, and hosts programs to help raise awareness about victims’ rights and services to the public. What? OVC provides funding for the demonstration grantees and has provided NIJ with the funding to evaluate the demonstration effort. OVC also provides grantees with ongoing guidance and direction, as well as reviews and approves project plans and documents. Contact Bethany Case Lindsay Waldrop Who? The National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges works to improve the lives of children and families who seek justice. NCJFCJ has provided TTA for initiatives involving multiple organizations and spanning a wide range of topics. What? NCJFCJ is providing training and technical assistance to the two demonstration sites. NCJFCJ will help the grantees establish their networks, design and implement the needs assessments/gap analyses, and develop and implement the service delivery strategy. It will also convene a National Steering Committee to share information, coordinate TTA, and develop materials to assist in future replication efforts. Contact Eryn Branch Crystal Duarte Michele Robinson Who? OVC funded two demonstration projects, in Montana and Virginia, which include grantees and their partners. They are working to develop a consistent and coordinated approach to effectively identify, assess, and provide comprehensive services to youth victims and their families. What? Each grantee’s network will develop replicable and sustainable statewide system of care frameworks to identify and serve youth victims and their families. They will identify the states’ service needs through needs assessments/gap analyses and then design and implement new strategies based on systems of care frameworks. Contact Nikki Camp (Montana) Nancy Fowler (Virginia) Who? The National Institute of Justice — the research, development, and evaluation agency of the U.S. Department of Justice — is dedicated to improving knowledge and understanding of crime and justice issues through science. NIJ provides objective and independent knowledge and tools to reduce crime and promote justice, particularly at the state and local levels. What? NIJ provided ICF with a grant to carry out the evaluation and is responsible for overseeing ICF on the overall evaluation effort. NIJ is also lending technical expertise and research insight to ICF. Contact Dara Blachman-Demner dara.blachman- Who? ICF partners with diverse clients to deliver research, programmatic support, technology services, and other assistance in a number of markets, including criminal justice. The ICF team has worked with NIJ and OVC on other victim-centered research and been involved in other studies of systems of care approaches. What? ICF is conducting a national study of the demonstration project to provide critical information back to the project partners and for future replication efforts. As part of the study, ICF will be working with the grantees and their partners to collect data about project activities and outcomes. Contact Sara Debus-Sherrill Mary Spooner

Demonstration Sites Linking Systems of Care for Children and Youth Demonstration Project Organizational Chart Office for Victims of Crime Office for Victims of Crime National Institute of Justice U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs NCJFCJ TTA Leadership Team Training and Technical Assistance National Study ICF Leadership Team ICF Research Team Steering Committee TTA Site Teams 1 ICF Site Liaisons Montana Board of Crime Control Virginia Department of Social Services Children’s Systems of Care Planning Committee Partner Agencies Team 1 TTA Site Teams consist of 4 members per site (1 facilitator from Steering Committee, 1 Coordinator and 1 TTA Provider from NCJFCJ, and 1 TTA Provider from NCCTS). 2 The University of Montana is assisting the Montana site by identifying screening tools. University of Montana 2 VA Dept. of Criminal Justice Services 3 VA Dept. of Criminal Justice Services 3 Stakeholder Partners Advisory Panel 3 While the Virginia Department of Social Services (DSS) is the grantee, both the DSS and the Virginia Department of Criminal Justice Services (DCJS) co-lead the Partner Agencies Team (PAT). Additional stakeholder partners are also incorporated into the system of care network.