Deadline: 18 May 2020
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), Office of Justice Programs (OJP), Office for Victims of Crime (OVC) is seeking applications for states or tribes to develop, enhance, and coordinate programs and activities geared toward improving outcomes for child and youth victims of sex and labor trafficking.
This program aims to improve statewide coordination and multidisciplinary collaboration to address human trafficking involving children and youth. This program furthers the Department’s mission by enhancing the field’s response to child and youth victims of human trafficking.
The purpose of this program is to improve outcomes for children and youth who are victims of human trafficking by integrating human trafficking policy and programming at the state or tribal level and enhancing coordinated, multidisciplinary, and statewide approaches to all forms of trafficking, as well as at-risk populations.
Goals, Objectives and Deliverables
The overall goal of the program is to improve responses for child and youth victims of trafficking with a focus on coordination at the statewide or tribal jurisdiction level to create effective change across systems. Recognizing that each jurisdiction is unique, applicants should identify the state or tribe’s greatest barriers to identifying and assisting child and youth victims of sex and labor trafficking and/or to investigating and prosecuting these trafficking cases, and propose a program to systematically address those barriers.
Objectives include the following:
- Develop and implement a jurisdiction-wide strategy to combat the greatest challenge areas in child and youth sex and labor trafficking within the state or tribe.
- Deliverable: Submit a written strategy or action plan. The strategy should be supported by the baseline data provided in the application and must be finalized by the grantee and approved by OVC and implemented within the first year of the project start date.
- Deliverable: Documented lessons learned related to implementing the statewide strategy and the potential impacts on child and youth victims of human trafficking.
- Develop protocols and procedures to ensure child and youth victims receive appropriate services, including developmentally, age-appropriate, and/or linguistically tailored referrals and/or services; and strengthening data collection across multiple systems of care that work with and provide services to youth.
- Deliverable: Written protocols and procedures.
- Develop a unified strategy to provide training to professionals throughout the jurisdiction including, but not limited to, law enforcement officers, first responders, victim service providers, health care professionals, child welfare officials, juvenile justice personnel, prosecutors, judicial personnel, and other relevant organizations.
- Deliverable: A written training plan and submission of training materials.
- Deliverable: Outreach and awareness materials, including social media and technology efforts, designed and tailored for those working with children and youth victims of human trafficking.
- Fill gaps in existing services and coordinate responses in existing anti-trafficking and youth-serving efforts, including those related to victim assistance, law enforcement, child welfare, runaway and homeless youth, and juvenile justice, among others. Applicants should determine if there is an existing federally funded trafficking victim service provider within their jurisdiction, and work to ensure that the new application does not duplicate existing services currently funded by OVC, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), the Office on Violence Against Women, or another federal office or agency.
- Deliverable: Documentation and reporting on services provided.
- Conduct data collection evaluation activities to determine if the program is meeting stated goals and objectives.
- Deliverable: A Plan for Evaluation and Data Collection for this Solicitation’s Performance Measures should be submitted as one separate component to the application.
Funding Information
- Estimated Total Program Funding: $6,000,000
- Award Ceiling: $1,500,000
- Period of Performance start date October 1, 2020
- Period of Performance duration 36 months
Eligibility Criteria
- The following entities are eligible to apply:
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- states (including U.S. territories and the District of Columbia) and
- federally recognized Indian tribal governments (as determined by the Secretary of the Interior)
- Eligible sub recipients are states, units of local government, federally recognized Indian tribal governments (as determined by the Secretary of the Interior), and nonprofit organizations (defined as an organization that is described in section 501(c)(3) of Title 26 and is exempt from taxation under 501(a) of such title) (including tribal nonprofits).
- Grantees awarded funding in FY 2017–2019 under the Improving Outcomes for Child and Youth Victims of Human Trafficking solicitation are not eligible to apply for funding under this solicitation, unless the new proposal outlines new services, cost items, or a distinct geographic scope not included in the FY 2017–2019 application. 2 OVC-2020-18412 All recipients and sub recipients must forgo any profit or management fee.
- Additionally, nonprofit organizations that hold money in offshore accounts for the purpose of avoiding paying the tax described in 26 U.S.C. § 511(a) are not eligible sub recipients.
For more information, visit https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=325491
