VOCA Grants Explained: How Victim Assistance Funding Works and What It Requires
Where VOCA money comes from, how it reaches local programs, what it pays for, and the reporting and confidentiality rules every VOCA subrecipient has to meet.
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Step-by-step guides to VOCA PMT, HUD CoC APR and ESG CAPER, Texas HHSC and other funder reports — and how to stop rebuilding them from spreadsheets every quarter.
Where VOCA money comes from, how it reaches local programs, what it pays for, and the reporting and confidentiality rules every VOCA subrecipient has to meet.
A plain-language guide to HMIS: who has to use it, what data goes in, which HUD reports come out, and why domestic violence programs use a comparable database instead.
Why domestic violence and sexual assault programs can't use HMIS, what a HUD comparable database must do, and how to produce a CoC APR or ESG CAPER that passes in Sage.
What VOCA subgrantees report in OVC's Performance Measurement Tool each quarter, the counting mistakes that trigger corrections, and a workflow that keeps the numbers ready before the deadline.