Deadline: 6-Jun-23
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), Office of Justice Programs (OJP), Office for Victims of Crime (OVC) seeks applications for funding to support the FY 2023 Integrated Services for Minor Victims of Human Trafficking.
Goals
- The goal of this program is to provide services that address the needs of minor victims of sex and labor trafficking through a continuum of trauma-informed, culturally relevant, and gender responsive services to ensure their safety, security, and healing and to prevent them from being directed to or involved in the justice system.
Purpose
- The purpose of this program is to enhance the quality and quantity of services available to assist minor victims of human trafficking. It will provide funding for services to victims of severe forms of human trafficking:
- Sex trafficking in which a commercial sex act is induced by force, fraud, or coercion, or in which the person induced to perform such an act has not attained 18 years of age.
- The recruitment, harboring, transportation, provision, or obtaining of a person for labor or services through the use of force, fraud, or coercion for the purpose of subjection to involuntary servitude, peonage, debt bondage, or slavery.
Objectives
- The objectives of this program include the following:
- Provide services to meet the individualized needs of minor victims of sex and labor trafficking.
- Collaborate with local partners (e.g., service providers, criminal and juvenile justice and child welfare professionals, members of the judiciary, community- and faith-based organizations) to ensure minor victims of sex and labor trafficking are properly identified, responded to, and provided with appropriate services.
- Establish community-based interventions (i.e., engage stakeholders, including community-based agencies, health care providers, families and/or caregivers, experts with lived experience, advocates, public defenders, and prosecutors) through community outreach and education to develop a continuum of care that addresses the specific needs of each victim.
- Provide other essential services for minor victims of sex and labor trafficking (either directly or through referrals), including emergency interventions (i.e., provision of food, clothing, drop-in shelters, health care, and other direct services that address the immediate needs of minor victims of trafficking) and long-term interventions (i.e., job training, life skills, education, and other direct services that are victim-centered, survivor-led, and culturally relevant).
- Collect data and participate in assessment activities to determine if the program is meeting stated goals and objectives.
- Services must be victim-centered, trauma-informed, and developmentally appropriate. Partnerships that incorporate a holistic community approach are encouraged.
Priority Areas
- The Department of Justice is committed to advancing work that promotes civil rights and racial equity, increases access to justice, supports crime victims and individuals impacted by the justice system, strengthens community safety and protects the public from crime and evolving threats, and builds trust between law enforcement and the community.
- In support of this Executive Order, OJP will provide priority consideration when making award decisions to the following:
- Applications that propose project(s) that are designed to promote racial equity and the removal of barriers to access and opportunity for communities that have been historically underserved, marginalized, and adversely affected by inequality.
- Applicants that demonstrate that their capabilities and competencies for implementing their proposed project(s) are enhanced because they (or at least one proposed subrecipient that will receive at least 40% of the requested award funding, as demonstrated in the Budget Web-Based Form) identify as a culturally specific organization.
Funding Information
- Anticipated Maximum Dollar Amount of Awards: Up to $950,000
- Period of Performance Duration (Months): 36
Eligibility Criteria
- Eligible Applicants: City or township governments, County governments, Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized), 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, Public and State controlled institutions of higher education, Public housing authorities/Indian housing authorities, State governments
- Nonprofit organizations that hold money in offshore accounts for the purpose of avoiding paying the tax are not eligible to apply.
- 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.
Requirements
- Mandatory Program Requirements:
- Applicants that receive funding under this program will be required to: Submit the policies, procedures, and rules governing the provision of services for review upon OVC request (post-award).
- Ensure that their policies and procedures follow applicable federal and state laws protecting the civil rights of program participants and staff (post-award).
- Ensure that any staff, partner staff, or service providers working with trafficking victims are adequately licensed and trained to work with such victims, including by accessing OVC-supported training and technical assistance.
- Ensure that the project coordinator/program director and other relevant staff participate in any grantee orientations and OVC-sponsored training and technical assistance.
- As part of routine programmatic reporting, describe ongoing efforts to enhance responses to labor trafficking.
- Provide all grant-funded staff at least one session annually of training (to be delivered by individuals or organizations with reasonable and demonstrable expertise) related to diversity, equity, inclusion, and/or accessibility and tied to program goals and objectives.
For more information, visit OJP.