Deadline: 27-Apr-23
The Office on Trafficking in Persons (OTIP) within the Administration for Children and Families (ACF) is announcing funds for the Human Trafficking Youth Prevention Education (HTYPE) Demonstration Program.
The goal of the HTYPE Demonstration Program is to fund local educational agencies (LEA) to develop and implement programs to prevent human trafficking victimization through the provision of skills-based human trafficking training and education for school staff and students as specified in the Frederick Douglass Trafficking Victims Prevention and Protection Reauthorization Act of 2018. The LEA must work in partnership with a non-profit or nongovernmental organization (NGO) to provide all aspects of human trafficking prevention education to students and school staff. The LEA will consult with local law enforcement in the development of the Human Trafficking School Safety Protocol (HTSSP), specifically to address the safety, security, and well-being of staff and students and to define the proper and effective role of school staff in responding to potential and confirmed cases of human trafficking, including notifying caregivers, as appropriate.
Purpose
- The HTYPE Demonstration Program’s goal is to fund LEAs as prime recipients to partner with a non-profit or NGO to build the capacity of selected schools to provide skills-based human trafficking prevention education for educators, other staff, and students and to establish a HTSSP that addresses the safety, security, and well-being of staff and students. Prime recipients will also have the option to implement skills-based human trafficking prevention education for caregivers. The HTYPE Demonstration Program is informed by the public health approach, which focuses on defining and monitoring the problem, identifying risk and protective factors, developing and testing prevention strategies, and ensuring widespread dissemination.
Objectives
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Under the HTYPE Demonstration Program, the following activities are required throughout the project period:
- Provide skills-based human trafficking prevention education to educators and other staff.
- Deliver skills-based human trafficking prevention education to students.
- Train qualified individuals employed by the LEA or partnering school district to implement and replicate project activities throughout the school district(s) or identified target area(s).
- Develop and implement the HTSSP.
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The following activity is optional throughout the project period:
- Deliver skills-based human trafficking prevention education to caregivers
Funding Information
- Estimated Total Funding: $2,500,000
- Expected Number of Awards: 5
- Award Ceiling: $500,000 Per Budget Period
- Award Floor: $400,000 Per Budget Period
- Average Projected Award Amount: $450,000 Per Budget
- Period Anticipated Project Start Date: 09/30/2023
- Length of Project Periods: 60-month project period with five 12-month budget periods
Eligibility Criteria
- In accordance with the authorizing statute, eligible applicants for funding will include LEAs. LEAs may apply on their own or as the lead applicant for a consortium of LEAs. LEAs must partner with a non-profit or NGO to be eligible. The nonprofit or NGO partner must either be located within the geographic area of the proposed project or have a national scope and experience in implementing similar projects in multiple geographic locations.
- Applicants must submit a Letter of Commitment (LOC) that acknowledges a formal commitment from the partnered non-profit or NGO to collaborate on the development and implementation of a program to prevent human trafficking victimization. This letter must be on letterhead of the non-profit or NGO and signed by the Authorizing Official. Applicants from LEAs that do not submit the required LOC substantiating the partnership with a non-profit or NGO at the time of application will be disqualified from competitive review and from funding under the published notice of funding opportunity.
- An LEA is a public board of education or other public authority legally constituted within a state for either administrative control or direction of, or to perform a service function for, public elementary schools or secondary schools in a city, county, township, school district, or other political subdivision of a state, or for a combination of school districts or counties that is recognized in a state as an administrative agency for its public elementary schools or secondary schools.
- Faith-based and community organizations are eligible to receive subawards under the published opportunity.
- Applications from individuals (including sole proprietorships) and foreign entities are not eligible and will be disqualified from competitive review and funding under this funding opportunity.
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