The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), Office of Justice Programs (OJP), Office for Victims of Crime (OVC) seeks applications to fund services for victims of all forms of human trafficking throughout the United States.
Donor Name: Office for Victims of Crime (OVC)
State: All States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 05/01/2023
Size of the Grant: $1,000,000
Grant Duration: 36 months
Details:
This program furthers the DOJ’s mission by enhancing the law enforcement and social services fields’ response to victims of human trafficking.
With this solicitation, OVC provides support to develop and expand multidisciplinary, collaborative model task forces to combat human trafficking, as defined by the Trafficking Victims Protection Act (TVPA) of 2000 and its reauthorizations.
Goals
The ECM program goal is to support a sustainable, multidisciplinary, co-leadership task force approach to improve and increase victim identification of all forms of human trafficking, provide victims with access to services, and seek justice on their behalf (which can include investigating and prosecuting traffickers at the local, state, tribal, and federal levels).
Objective
- Develop, sustain, and strengthen co-leadership structure and coordination of ECM task force partnerships and activities using the Development & Operations Roadmap for Multidisciplinary Anti-Human Trafficking Task Forces (Roadmap) as a guide.
- Develop, implement, or revise a set of written protocols to guide overall task force functions, which include both service delivery and investigative and prosecutorial activities.
- Identify and serve victims of all types of human trafficking.
- Implement victim-centered, trauma-informed, and collaborative approaches by leveraging expertise of all task force partners and consistently implementing task force protocols and training.
- Involve all task force partners in planning and executing a diverse set of approaches to improve victim identification that includes victim-centered and trauma-informed investigations and prosecutions.
- Investigate, refer, and prosecute both sex and labor trafficking cases at the local, state, tribal, and federal levels. Applicants may view the Prosecution Case Review tool as a resource for multidisciplinary task forces.
- Assist victims of sex trafficking and labor trafficking in achieving increased safety, independence, self-sufficiency, and well-being by providing appropriate services.
- Collect data and conduct ongoing assessment activities to better understand community vulnerabilities and determine if the program is meeting its goals and objectives.
Funding Information
- Purpose Area 1: Development of New Local or Tribal Human Trafficking Task Forces
- Dollar Amount for Award: $750,000 (per applicant/ $1,500,000 per task force)
- Performance Duration (Months): 36
- Purpose Area 2: Expansion of Local or Tribal ECM Human Trafficking Task Forces (Previously Funded by OJP)
- Dollar Amount for Award: $750,000 (per applicant/ $1,500,00 per task force
- Performance Duration (Months): 36
- Purpose Area 3: Enhanced Support for Statewide Task Forces (New or Previously OJPfunded)
- Dollar Amount for Award: $1,000,000 (per applicant/ $2,000,000 per task force)
- Performance Duration (Months): 36
Eligible Applicants
City or township governments, County governments, Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized), Native American tribal organizations (other than Federally recognized tribal governments), Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education, State governments.
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