The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), Office of Justice Programs (OJP), and Office for Victims of Crime (OVC) seek applications for funding for the FY 2022 Project Beacon: Increasing Access to Services for Urban American Indian and Alaska Native Victims of Human Trafficking Program.
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: 05/31/2022
Size of the Grant: $475,000 – $550,000
Grant Duration: 3 years
Details:
This fiscal year, OVC will again make awards under two program purpose areas:
- Program Purpose Area 1: Direct Services
- Eligible applicants may apply to this purpose area to request funding to develop or enhance their organizational capacity to provide services to urban AI/AN victims of human trafficking; develop and sustain collaborative partnerships; conduct community outreach and awareness activities, and provide training to other stakeholders on how to meet the needs of urban AI/AN victims of human trafficking. Applicants for this purpose area must demonstrate that they will provide services to the target population of AI/AN victims of human trafficking in an urban community.
- Program Purpose Area 2: Training and Technical Assistance
- Eligible applicants may request funding to provide capacity-building training and technical assistance (TTA) to a successful Purpose Area 1 grantee.
Goals
The overarching goal of this program is to increase the quantity and quality of victim-centered services available to assist AI/AN victims of human trafficking in urban areas. This will be accomplished by developing the capacity of urban Indian centers to meet victims’ needs by providing a comprehensive range of services either in-house or through referrals to a network of collaborative partners
Objectives for Program Purpose Area 1: Direct Services
By developing the capacity of urban Indian centers to provide services to AI/AN victims of human trafficking in urban areas, Project Beacon will increase the quantity and quality of services available to AI/AN victims of human trafficking. Purpose Area 1 award recipients will work toward achieving the following objectives:
- Develop and implement a plan or strategy to provide the services described in the Comprehensive Services Model section, through (a) the recipient’s provision of direct services to victims; (b) the formation of strategic collaborative partnerships with other community-based organizations and agencies that can meet the victims’ needs; or (c) a combination of (a) and (b).
- Work collaboratively with federal, state, local, and tribal law enforcement; victim service providers; and community- and faith-based organizations and agencies to facilitate the identification and referral to services of AI/AN victims of human trafficking.
- Participate in OVC-sponsored training and technical assistance to (a) build the recipient’s organizational capacity to provide direct services to AI/AN victims of human trafficking through professional development training and education for organizational staff; (b) craft an effective public awareness and training plan; (c) develop and implement an effective awareness and training plan, and (d) develop and implement a plan to evaluate activities for the grantee’s individual project.
- Participate in data collection and program evaluation activities to assess whether the funded project is meeting its stated goals and objectives.
Objectives for Purpose Area 2: Training and Technical Assistance
To develop Purpose Area 1 grantees’ capacity to increase the quality and quantity of services available to AI/AN victims of human trafficking, the successful Purpose Area 2 applicant will work toward achieving the following objectives:
- Provide guidance, training, technical assistance, and resources to Purpose Area 1 grantee that (a) educate grantees about the nature, dynamics, and unique needs of urban AI/AN victims of human trafficking; (b) help grantees develop and finalize required products; (c) develop the grantees’ capacity to provide services to victims using OVC’s Comprehensive Services Model; (d) aid grantees in implementing a plan to collect data required for the award program’s performance measures, and to define their own program evaluation measurements to implement their program evaluation plan; (e) assist grantees in developing training curricula and resources sufficient to train other professionals on the needs of AI/AN victims of human trafficking; (f) advise grantees on how to develop and implement effective outreach strategies for victims of human trafficking; (g) support grantees in developing collaborative partnerships sufficient to satisfy the solicitation’s requirements to provide victims with access to comprehensive services, and (h) help grantees in developing and finalizing all project deliverables, including a plan for comprehensive services, MOUs, and a logic model.
- Provide onsite and remote TTA to grantees to support the activities outlined in 1 (a) to (h) above, including an annual 2-day meeting for Purpose Area 1 grantee.
- Identify and link grantees with national, state, local, and tribal resources that can enhance their efforts to develop and deliver direct services to victims, training to collaborative partners and other service providers, and community outreach and awareness events to the target audience of urban AI/AN individuals.
Funding Information
- Purpose Area 1: Direct Services – $475,000.
- Purpose Area 2: Training and Technical Assistance – $550,000.
Grant Period
Period of Performance Duration (Months) – 36.
Eligibility Criteria
- Purpose Area 1: Limited to nonprofit, nongovernmental organizations (including tribal nonprofit organizations) whose primary mission is specifically to provide services that meet the health, safety, and general welfare needs of American Indian and Alaska Native individuals who reside in urban areas.
- Purpose Area 2: Limited to states, federally recognized Indian tribal governments, as determined by the Secretary of the Interior, units of local government, nonprofit and for-profit organizations (including tribal nonprofit and for-profit organizations), national organizations, and institutions of higher education (including tribal institutions of higher education).
- 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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