Compendium of Practices

The Compendium of Practices (the compendium) primarily compiles a list of programs and practices that have been implemented by the Fiscal Year 2018-to-present Office for Victims of Crime (OVC) Enhancing Community Responses to the Opioid/America’s Addiction Crisis: Serving Our Youngest Crime Victims grantees. Their purpose is to address the gap in victim services related to the opioid/America’s addiction crisis, expand upon the existing programs or establish new programs for children and youth victimized as a result of the opioid crisis, and support service providers in expanding their scope and expertise in these areas to ensure support and healing for children who are victims of crime and substance misuse.

Objective one under the grant requires the delivery of direct services that are trauma informed and responsive to the needs of these children and youth. To that end, this compendium has been created as a starting point for researching and acquiring more implementation information about programs that grantees have used to serve children who are victims of crime and substance misuse.