The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), Office of Justice Programs (OJP), the Office for Victims of Crime (OVC) is seeking applications for its Enhanced Collaborative Model Task Force to Combat Human Trafficking Program.
Donor Name: Office for Victims of Crime (OVC)
State: All States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 04/24/2024
Size of the Grant: $500,000 to $1 million
Grant Duration: 3 Years
Details:
With this solicitation, OVC seeks to provide training and technical assistance support to develop and expand multidisciplinary, collaborative model task forces to combat human trafficking.
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).
Objectives
OVC funding is used to help ECM task forces achieve and make progress across all project objectives.
- 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.
- Collect data and conduct ongoing assessment activities to better understand community vulnerabilities and determine if the program is meeting its goals and objectives.
- Investigate, refer, and prosecute both sex and labor trafficking cases at the local, state, Tribal, and federal levels.
Assist victims of sex trafficking and labor trafficking in achieving increased safety, independence, self-sufficiency, and well-being by providing appropriate services.
Funding Information
- Purpose Area 1: $500,000 to $700,000 per award (for a MAXIMUM of $1.2 million per task force)
- Purpose Area 2: $600,000 to $900,000 per award (for a MAXIMUM of $1.5 million per task force)
- Purpose Area 3: $800,000 to $1,000,000 per award (for a MAXIMUM of $2 million per task force)
Period of Performance Duration
36 months
Eligibility Criteria
- Purpose Area 1: Eligible applicants include local or Tribal task forces that are newly formed (formally operational less than 3 years) or have never received funding under the OJP ECM Task Force Program.
- Purpose Area 2: Eligible applicants must be a previous local or Tribal recipient of an OJP Enhanced Collaborative Model (ECM) Task Force to Combat Human Trafficking award.
- Purpose Area 3: Eligible applicants must be a statewide task force (new or previously funded by OJP) consisting of state governments and nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education.
For the purposes of this notice of funding opportunity, “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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