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
U.S. Territories: American Samoa, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline (mm/dd/yyyy): 06/09/2022
Size of the Grant: $750,000
Grant Duration: 3 years
Details:
The purpose of the Enhanced Collaborative Model (ECM) Task Force to Combat Human Trafficking Program is to develop, expand, or strengthen a multidisciplinary approach to fighting human trafficking. This collaborative approach must include victim and social service providers, law enforcement and prosecution personnel (local, state, and federal), survivors, and a range of other governmental and non-governmental partners that work together to provide a diverse set of appropriate services for trafficking victims. ECM task forces also train law enforcement and other stakeholders in how to identify victims of trafficking in persons and related offenses and conduct victim-centered and trauma-informed investigations to prosecute traffickers.
- Purpose Area 1 – Development of New Human Trafficking Task Forces – Purpose Area 1 funding will help new task forces with critical first steps related to starting up a multidisciplinary task force and establishing a strong foundation of task force co-leadership structure, clear roles and responsibilities, and internal processes and protocols. Successful applicants will dedicate the first 12–18 months of funding to formalize task force structure, develop operational procedures, access professional development and training opportunities, deliver training to key stakeholders, and conduct a community assessment to identify potential areas of the community where sex and labor trafficking may be occurring.
- Purpose Area 2 – Expansion of Established ECM Human Trafficking Task Forces – Purpose Area 2 funding will help established ECM task forces that have been formally operational for a minimum of 3 years, can demonstrate clear task force co-leadership roles and structure, and have a history of successful identification of sex and labor trafficking victims and prosecution of traffickers. This funding will support expanded task force partnerships, refinement, and implementation of existing and new protocols, meaningful survivor engagement, and efforts to implement a range of proactive approaches that are victim-centered and trauma and survivor informed.
Goals
The ECM program goal is to support a sustainable, multidisciplinary, co-leadership task force approach to identify victims of all forms of human trafficking, provide access to services, and investigate and prosecute traffickers at the local, state, tribal, and federal levels.
Objectives
- Develop, sustain, and strengthen co-leadership structure and coordination of ECM task force partnerships and activities using the Multidisciplinary Collaborative Model for Anti-Human Trafficking Task Forces: Development and Operations Roadmap as a guide.
- Develop, implement, and revise a set of protocols to guide overall task force operations, 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 developing and consistently implementing task force protocols and training.
- Involve all task force partners in actively planning and executing a range of proactive approaches that include 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 developed 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 determine if the program is meeting its stated goals and objectives.
Funding Information
- Purpose Area 1: Development of New Human Trafficking Task Forces – $750,000.
- Purpose Area 2: Expansion of Established ECM Human Trafficking Task Forces – $750,000.
Grant Period
- Period of Performance Duration (Months) – 36.
Eligibility Criteria
- 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.
- Purpose Area 2: Eligible applicants must be a previous recipient of an OJP Enhanced Collaborative Model (ECM) Task Force to Combat Human Trafficking award.
- Purpose Area 1 and 2: OJP ECM recipients that received funding in fiscal years (FY) 2020 and 2021 are ineligible to apply under either Purpose Area in this solicitation.
- For purposes of this solicitation, “state” means any state of the United States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands.
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