Deadline: 8-May-23
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), Office of Justice Programs (OJP), Office for Victims of Crime (OVC) seeks applications for funding to provide training and technical assistance (TTA) to assist OVC anti-trafficking grantees and the human trafficking field.
This program furthers the DOJ’s mission by enhancing stakeholders’ responses to human trafficking and increasing trafficking victims’ access to quality services.
Goals
- The primary program goals are to
- Improve the quality and quantity of services offered to trafficking survivors;
- Increase collaboration among OVC grantees, other federally funded service providers and programs, community partners, and other stakeholders to enhance victim identification, service delivery, and multidisciplinary responses;
- Support grantees and their partners in intentional and sustainable engagement with survivors and impacted communities to improve anti-trafficking programming; and
- Support OVC human trafficking grantees in meeting their award goals and objectives.
Objectives
- An applicant should address all the objectives, , Deliverables and Timeline web-based form. The overall objectives are to strengthen and expand the skills, expertise, and capacity of OVC human trafficking grantees, their program partners, and other stakeholders to provide victim-centered and trauma-informed responses to victims of human trafficking through TTA provision. Objectives include
- Providing intensive training and technical assistance to OVC human trafficking grantees and other key purpose area stakeholders;
- Developing and disseminating resources and training on the purpose area topic;
- Increasing OVC grantees’ and partners’ expertise and specialized skills;
- Collaborating with other OVC human trafficking TTA providers; and
- Supporting data collection and assessment activities.
Purpose
Applicants are invited to apply under two program purpose areas.
- Purpose Area 1: TTA for Legal Services
- The overarching goal of Purpose Area 1 is to provide TTA to increase human trafficking victims’ access to the full spectrum of legal remedies by enhancing the quality and quantity of legal services available across the country for human trafficking survivors.
- Under Purpose Area 1, OVC anticipates making one award of up to $2 million for up to a 36-month period of performance, to begin on October 1, 2023.
- Purpose Area 2: Enhancing Grantee Responses to Labor Trafficking
- Under this purpose area, the grantee will provide technical assistance to OVC’s anti-trafficking grantees across various programs in enhancing their responses to labor trafficking.
- Under Purpose Area 2, OVC anticipates making one award of up to $1 million for up to a 36-month period of performance, to begin on October 1, 2023.
Funding Information
- Estimated Total Program Funding: $3,000,000
- Award Ceiling: $2,000,000
- Award Floor: $1,000,000
Eligibility Criteria
- For profit organizations other than small businesses, 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, Private institutions of higher education, Public and State controlled institutions of higher education, Small businesses
- An applicant entity may submit more than one application, if each application proposes a different project in response to the solicitation. Also, an entity may be proposed as a subrecipient (subgrantee) in more than one application.
- OVC will consider applications under which two or more entities would carry out the federal award; however, only one entity may be the applicant. Any others must be proposed as subrecipients (subgrantees).
- OVC may elect to fund applications submitted under this FY 2023 solicitation in future fiscal years, dependent on, among other considerations, the merit of the applications and the availability of appropriations.
For more information, visit DOJ.