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Human Options/OVW Improving Criminal Justice Responses OVW-2019-15743 As the lead agency, Human Options, Inc, will receive compensation from this grant in the amount of $31 Q,QQO,over the three-year grant period and commit to the following roles and responsibilities to ensure the success of the project: • Serve as fiscal and project lead; • Appoint Chief Program Officer (with leveraged funds) to oversee grant and budget management, project reporting, and adherence to state, federal, and funder policies; • Allocate Legal Advocacy Program Manager (with leveraged funds) to oversee the project, facilitate project meetings, liaise with SAPD, ensure excellence in client services, ensure tracking of project activities for reports and progress evaluation, coordinate participation in required training and technical assistance (TAT), attend required program orientation, and supervise the Legal Advocate; • Allocate the Residential Program Supervisor (.10 FTE each) to assist with streamlining shelter intake to expedite victim access to shelter during a police response, attend project meetings, and supervise the Domestic Violence Advocate (DVA). • Allocate a Legal Advocate (.50 FTE) to provide bilingual legal services, including legal needs assessments, application assistance, court accompaniment, safety planning, education, and referrals to victims of domestic violence. • Allocate a DVA (.75 FTE) to provide bilingual victim services (including in-person advocacy during DVRT response, advocacy for walk-in clients at SAPD, and follow-up advocacy), participate in project meetings, and document services as required for reports. • Allocate a Staff Therapist (.20 FTE) to provide bilingual, trauma -informed, and culturally competent mental health counseling to victims. • Provide emergency shelter and/or safety net for victims of domestic violence and their children (with leveraged fields). • Comply with OVW and VAWA safety standards to ensure that project staff do not engage in activities that compromise victim safety. As a collaborating, funded agency, the City of Santa Ana will receive compensation from this grant in the amount of $190,000 over the three-year grant period and commit to the following roles and responsibilities to ensure the success of this project: Assign one Domestic Violence Corporal to serve on the project oversight team, attend project oversight meetings, attend required OVW trainings and project orientation, work collaboratively to address obstacles preventing victim access to the criminal justice system, investigate domestic violence cases, supervise the police officers, corporals, and detectives assigned to the DV Car, and participate in data collection and progress Memorandum of Understanding Page 4 of 7 info@humanoptions.org 1949337.5242 1 P.O. Box 53745 1 Irvine, CA 92619 1 TaxiD:95-3667$17 W f @ in humanoptronsorg