Deadline: 9 March 2017
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), Office of Justice Programs (OJP), Office for Victims of Crime (OVC) is seeking applications to support Specialized Services for Victims of Human Trafficking throughout the United States. This program furthers the Department’s mission by enhancing the social service field’s response to victims of human trafficking.
The purpose of this program is to enhance the quality and quantity of specialized services available to assist victims of human trafficking.
Priority Areas
- Specialized short-term, emergency, transitional, or long-term safe housing or shelter programs
- Economic empowerment/education services
- Mental health/substance abuse/health services
- Legal services
Goals and Objectives
The primary goal of this program is to enhance the quality and quantity of services available to assist all victims of human trafficking to achieve their goals, which may include increased autonomy and self-sufficiency, and increased feelings of safety and well-being. Victims of trafficking have diverse and distinct needs that may require specialized responses. This solicitation focuses on support of a specialized service or services to bridge gaps in current service provision.
This program has the following objectives:
- Provide one or more of the four specialized priority service areas identified above for all victims of human trafficking, either in-house or through community partnerships.
- Work in collaboration with federal, state, and local law enforcement, local service providers, and community- and faith-based organizations to ensure trafficking victims are identified and referred for appropriate services.
- Conduct training and public awareness activities for professionals and community members in order to improve their knowledge of human trafficking and their ability to identify and respond to victims. (Note: A minimum of 2 percent, but no more than 5 percent, of the total project budget, including match funds, must be dedicated to conducting training and public awareness activities.)
- Conduct data collection and evaluation activities to determine if the program is meeting stated goals and objectives. (Note: a minimum of 2 percent, but not more than 5 percent, of the total project budget, including match funds, must be dedicated to evaluation and data collection activities.)
Funding Information
OVC expects to make awards of up to $600,000 for a 36-month period of performance, to begin October 1, 2017.
Eligibility Criteria
- By statute, grants under this program may be awarded to 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), nongovernmental organizations (including tribal nonprofits).
- For the purposes of this program, a unit of local government is any city, county, township, town, borough, parish, village, or other general purpose political subdivision of a state, territory, or federally recognized Indian tribal government.
- Organizations with a demonstrated history of providing victim assistance, social services, legal services, shelter, or mental health services for victims of human trafficking are eligible to apply.
- Tribal governments, tribal nonprofits, and organizations that specialize in serving American Indian and Alaska Native victims of human trafficking are also eligible to apply.
- FY 2016 Specialized Services, FY 2016 Comprehensive Services, and FY 2016 Enhanced Collaborative Model to Combat Human Trafficking grantees are not eligible to apply for funding under this solicitation, unless the new proposal outlines new services and cost items that were not included in the FY 2016 application.
- 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 to apply.
- OVC welcomes 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”).
- The applicant must be the entity that would have primary responsibility for carrying out the award, including administering the funding and managing the entire project.
How to Apply
Interested applicants can access the application package via given website.
Eligible Country: United States
For more information, please visit grants.gov.