Specifications include, but are not limited to: A. Service Activities (Minimum and/or mandatory tasks and responsibilities) 1. VOCA Priority Areas Under the VOCA Rules, a minimum of 10% of the total grant award to the State will be allocated to each of the following priority areas: (1) child abuse; (2) domestic violence; (3) sexual assault; (4) victims of violent crimes who are members of an underserved population (collectively, the “10% thresholds”). The Department is obligated to ensure that the 10% thresholds will be met. Funding decisions will be made based on proposal scores and the need to ensure that the 10% thresholds are met. Because the 10% threshold is the Department’s obligation, an applicant is not required to consider the priority areas in designing the proposal’s projects or initiatives. The proposal’s projects or initiatives may address one or more of the priority areas or none of the priority areas. The definitions of each of the four (4) priority allocation areas are as follows:4 a. Victims of Child Abuse For purposes of this RFP, victims of child abuse have been defined as children (i.e., 17 years old or younger) who have been physically, sexually or emotionally abused or neglected, been victims of child pornography- related offenses or commercial sexual exploitation, bullying if a crime, or exposed to violence5 . It also includes child abuse as defined in Hawaii’s child abuse statute, HRS §350-1.6 b. Victims of Domestic Violence For purposes of this RFP, victims of domestic violence have been defined as victims in past or present familial, household, or other intimate relationship between the victim and the offender, including spouses, ex-spouses, boyfriends and girlfriends, ex-boyfriends and ex-girlfriends, and any family members or as persons residing in the same household as the victim. It involves a pattern of abusive behavior in any relationship that is used by one to gain or maintain power and control over another intimate partner. Domestic violence can be physical, sexual, emotional, economic, or psychological actions or threats of actions that influence another person. This includes any behaviors that intimidate, manipulate, humiliate, isolate, frighten, terrorize, coerce, threaten, blame, hurt, injure, or wound someone. It also includes family of household members who have been physically abused as defined in HRS §709-906.7
