Deadline: 15-Jun-21
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.
Goals
- 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
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Conduct data collection evaluation activities to determine if the program is meeting stated goals and objectives.
Funding Information
- Anticipated Total Amount to be Awarded Under Solicitation: $3,000,000.00
- Anticipated Maximum Dollar Amount of Awards: $1,500,000.00
- Anticipated Number of Awards: 2
- Period of Performance Start Date: 10/1/21 12:00 AM
- Period of Performance Duration (Months): 36
Eligibility Criteria
- Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized), State governments State, for purposes of this program, includes the District of Columbia and territories and possessions of the United States.
- Eligible sub recipients are states, units of local government, federally recognized Indian tribal governments (as determined by the Secretary of the Interior), and nonprofit (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) organizations (including tribal nonprofits).
- Grantees awarded funding in fiscal year (FY) 2017–2020 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 2017–2020 application.
- To advance Executive Order 13929 Safe Policing for Safe Communities, the Attorney General determined that all state, local, and university or college law enforcement agencies must be certified by an approved independent credentialing body or have started the certification process to be allocated FY 2021 DOJ discretionary grant funding, as either a recipient or a sub recipient.
For more information, visit https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=333207