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PART 6. PROJECT PROPOSAL 5. The Final Program Guidelines mandate that grant recipients use volunteers in the victim services program. Describe how volunteers will be utilized to provide services to crime victims. If the agency does not currently utilize volunteers, please explain how they will be recruited and incorporated into the victim services program. Volunteers are used within the Victim Assistance/Advocate Unit on a daily basis. Seven of the volunteers are fully training Advocates and assist the Unit by taking Call -outs and On-call assignments. Other volunteers handle office duties such as data entry, phone calls, and filing. 6. Identify the number of volunteers currently utilized in the agency's victim services program. This number must be expressed in FTEs. 10.00 Volunteers provide 9,078 Hours of service annually 4.36 FTE equivalent (hours provided divided by 2080) 7. The agencies that receive VOCA grant funding are required to comply with the Federal YES statutes and regulations that prohibit discrimination in Federally assisted programs or activities. Recipients may not discriminate in employment on the basis of race, color, national origin, religion, sex, and disability. Also, recipients may not discriminate in the delivery of services or benefits on the basis of race, color, national origin, religion, sex, disability, and age. In order to ensure VOCA-funded agencies fulfill the expectations of the Federal civil rights obligations all organizations that receive VOCA funding must complete the online civil rights training curriculum for recipients offered by the Office for Civil Rights. If awarded VOCA grant funding will the applicant agency complete the required training and comply with all applicable Federal statutes and regulations related to civil rights and nondiscrimination (Choose one from the drop-down menu)? 219 Page 21