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* Promote coordinated services with public and private efforts within the community to aid crime victims * Assist victims with filing victim compensation claims * Maintain civil rights information on victims served by race or national origin, sex, age, and disability * Maintain confidentiality of client -counselor information, as required by state and federal law * Comply with state criteria * Provide services to victims of federal crimes * Comply with applicable provisions of the OJP Financial Guide. In addition to satisfying an annual audit requirement, these provisions include maintaining programmatic and financial records that fully disclose the amount and disposition of VOCA funds received; financial documentation for disbursements; daily time and attendance records specifying time devoted to allowable VOCA victim services; client files; the portions of the project supplied by other sources of revenue; job descriptions; contracts for services; and other records which facilitate an effective audit. 9. Non -allowable Costs and Activities: The following list identifies some of the services, activities, and costs that cannot be supported with VOCA funds. All unallowable costs will be removed during OAG technical review and budgets will be reduced accordingly. See the Final Program Guidelines (Attachment A) for additional information concerning non -allowable costs and services at: http://www.oip.usdoi.gov/ovc/voca/vaguide.htm * Lobbying and administrative advocacy * Perpetrator rehabilitation and counseling * Needs assessments, surveys, evaluations or studies * Prosecution activities, including criminal investigations * Fund-raising activities * Indirect organization costs, including but not limited to, liability insurance on property or vehicles, capital improvements, security and body guards, property losses and expenses, real estate purchases, mortgage payments, construction * Property loss * Most medical costs * Relocation expenses * Vehicles, unless approved in advance by the state VOCA Administrator * Administrative staff expenses including administrators, board members, executive directors, supervisors, etc. * Administrative operating expenses * Coordination activities such as serving on task forces or development of protocols, interagency agreements, and other working agreements undertaken as part of the agency's role as a victim services organization * Costs of sending individual crime victims to conferences * Activities exclusively related to crime prevention * Supporting services to incarcerated individuals * Supplement to crime victim compensation awards * Non -emergency legal representation (i.e., divorce) 203 Page 5