April 2022Monthly Update
Updates
Coming Soon: HT-RADAR Linked In Group
This group will receive timely posts on reports, resources, webinars, and training. This will also be a space for professionals to share advances in the field. Reply to this email if you would like to be included: luzaramburo@pointloma.edu
Quarterly Meeting
HT-RADAR Quarterly Meeting: Recap on Cultic Theory
We had our largest attendance during last month’s Quarterly Meeting. A special thank you to Megan Lundstrom for presenting on Cultic Theory. Though we did not record the presentation, there are resources and a Q&A accessible here.
Community Highlights
San Diego Community Forum: Enhancing Human Trafficking Prevention and Service Coordination – Public Safety
On January 25, 2022, the San Diego Board of Supervisors directed the Chief Administrative Officer to develop recommendations aimed at enhancing the County’s response to Human Trafficking, including a peer navigator program, a strategy to coordinate services for survivors, educational and awareness raising efforts and to assess current services and receive community and stakeholder input in order to develop recommendations.
Meeting details can be found here
You can provide input online until Friday, May 6th here.
Reimagining Law Enforcement’s Role in the Anti-Trafficking Movement – Free to Thrive
A conversation about a gap in law enforcement’s training and how to fill it. If law enforcement agencies and advocates work together to supplement existing trauma-informed training, victims and survivors can have more supportive experiences early on in their path to healing.
Blog can be found here
Clinical Training, Post-Doctoral Research & Post-Doctoral Forensic Psychology Fellowships
The Institute on Violence, Abuse, and Trauma (IVAT) in San Diego, CA has a few openings for a Post-doctoral Fellow in Clinical and Forensic Psychology, and a Post-doctoral Research Fellowship for the 2022-2023 Training Year. The fellowship positions are currently open until filled.
The Dirty Dozen List 2022 Released
Dozen List is an annual campaign calling out twelve mainstream entities for facilitating, enabling, and even profiting from sexual abuse and exploitation. Since its inception in 2013, the Dirty Dozen List has galvanized thousands of individuals to call on corporations, government agencies, and organizations to change problematic policies and practices. This campaign has yielded major victories at Google, Netflix, TikTok, Hilton Worldwide, Verizon, Walmart, the US Department of Defense, and many more.Find the 2022 Dirty Dozen list here
Find progress from the 2021 Dirty Dozen list here
Apply to be an OVC Peer Reviewer
Office for Victims of Crime is seeking reviewers from diverse backgrounds and regions to assess grant applications. Reviewers should have relevant experience in the field of victim assistance; experience in providing culturally relevant victim services, services for multicultural communities, and non-traditional victim services; or lived experience expertise.
General Reports, Opportunities, & Updates
LAST GIRL FIRST: Research and Policy Recommendations
This was a critical discussion about how structural racism is inextricably linked to perpetuating exploitation and trafficking of people of color. We were pleased to host CAP International on their world tour to release a groundbreaking new report which studied the main trends at work in prostitution in fifty countries and highlights the disproportionate impact of the prostitution system on women and girls from the most discriminated communities.
DOJ-DHS-INL in Mexico Host Foreign Law Enforcement Partners at Regional Human Smuggling Roundtable Event
Translated Materials to Support Child and Youth Victims in Criminal and Family Court – Office for Victims of Crime
Translated materials are now available in Spanish, Chinese (simplified), Vietnamese, Arabic, and Haitian Creole. OVC’s Child Victims and Witnesses Support Materials can help children and youth, aged 2–18, navigate criminal and family court. Through the comic books and graphic novels, children and youth can learn how the justice system works, their rights, and the roles of different practitioners that they may encounter, in a developmentally appropriate way.
Unpacking Human Trafficking Vol 4: A Survey of Laws in the United States Targeting Human Trafficking in the Hospitality Industry – ECPAT
To help clarify the situation and facilitatelegal compliance, ECPAT-USA unpacked these laws by preparing a survey of all the applicable legislation currently in effect concerning anti-trafficking training and signage required by each state as well as other jurisdictions. For many localities where training is required, ECPAT-USA’s free anti-trafficking training for hotel associates that was developed with the American Hotel & Lodging Association (AHLA) and Marriott International is considered an approved training.
CyberTipline Reports – National Center for Missing &Exploited Children
Collaboration Toolkit for Anti-Trafficking & Housing Programs – Freedom Network Training Institute
This toolkit was created to address the need for collaboration across programs and communities for anti-trafficking and housing programs. The purpose of this toolkit is to provide information on the most meaningful ways to collaborate, form partnerships, and maintain survivor confidentiality. Additionally, this toolkit contains supplemental resources and a sample Memorandum of Understanding to assist with collaboration building.
MEN WHO BUY SEX Documentary
Sex buyers are the key to tackling the human trafficking epidemic. This documentary produced by the Wayne County Medical Society Foundation sheds light on the “men who buy sex”. By examining the demand side of the human trafficking equation, this film hopes to help end modern-day slavery. Length: 1 hour.
Resources
Webinars
Last Girl First: Global research on prostitution and trafficking
Date: April 19, 2022, 9:00 am PST
Hosted by: World Without Exploitation
Description: CAP international undertook a two-year-long research endeavor covering 50 countries and involving 30 field experts working with prostituted persons and leaders of the communities most impacted by prostitution. The resulting report, “Last Girl First” provides an overview of the intersectional oppressions fostering the systems of prostitution & trafficking for sexual exploitation. By tracing the roots of these systems, this study highlights the realities of prostitution & trafficking and the insidious way in which broad patterns of domination such as patriarchy, racism, colonialism, imperialism, classism, capitalism, war, and militarization shape them and lead to the sexual exploitation of the most marginalized.
SHIFT Webinar Series Part 6: Secondary Trauma & Traumatic Stress: Worldview Signs and Symptoms and How To Mitigate
Date: April 20, 2022, 11:00 am PST
Hosted by: Department of Justice: Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention
This is the sixth webinar in a 6-part series addressing secondary trauma and traumatic stress to help law enforcement, prosecutors, and other investigative personnel identify, reduce, and address the traumatic impact of their work in combating child sexual exploitation. This webinar will focus on the worldview signs and symptoms of stress and share specialized resiliency tools and coping strategies to help professionals combat traumatic stress and develop personalized tools to help alleviate the effects of trauma. Registration is required to join this event. If you have not registered, please do so now.
Child Sex Trafficking: From Suspicion to Disclosure
Date: April 21, 2022, 8:00 am PST
Hosted by: National Criminal Justice Training Center
Description: Learn techniques and strategies to enhance the likelihood of obtaining information from possible victims of child sex trafficking. Compare and contrast typical child sexual abuse cases with child sex trafficking (CST) cases and address the different points of entry into the criminal justice and welfare system for CST victims. Understand various disciplines’ roles and responsibilities and how they can contribute to a positive outcome of the CST case. Examine question strategy, interview dynamics, language use, and interview suggestions. Discuss the business model of child sex trafficking as it relates to a variety of crimes, including the use of child sexual abuse material (CSAM).
Naming and Healing From Trauma
Date: April 28, 2022 11:00am PST
Hosted by: Framework
Description: This training is tailored for anti-trafficking service providers with existing knowledge of labor trafficking, trauma, and survivor service delivery. This webinar will provide in-depth knowledge of labor trafficking trauma and post-traumatic growth experiences. Topics include research on the trauma experienced, survivor stories on the importance of naming, and practical recommendations to develop client policies and procedures.
Multidisciplinary Team Response to Child Sex Trafficking
Date: May 2-5, 2022
Hosted by: National Criminal Justice Training Center
Description: Improve multidisciplinary team (MDT) responses to child sex trafficking cases. Gather information about improving or establishing a formal MDT in your community. Identify gaps and develop short and long-term response plans with the help of subject matter experts. To attend this training, you must be part of a multidisciplinary team and your team members must attend with you, from a minimum of 5 to a maximum of 10. Each team member should register individually. To make your team easily identifiable, all team members should use the same name for their team leader during the registration process. If you need assistance in building your team, please contact our office at the number/email below.
Prosecutors’ Strategies for Child Sex Trafficking and Exploitation Cases
Date: May 10, 2022 7:00am PST
Hosted by: National Criminal Justice Training Center
Description: Gain the tools and skills necessary to successfully prosecute cases involving child sex trafficking and exploitation. Examine topics including charging strategies, courtroom tactics, corroborating victims, developing witness testimony, plea bargains, and motion hearings. Learn how to effectively develop a trial strategy and discuss various pre-trial and trial issues including identifying and working with witnesses and experts, preserving testimony, and responding to unexpected issues during trial.
Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children (CSEC 101)
Date: May 24, 2022, 9:00 am PST
Hosted by: Kristi House
Description: This 3-hour workshop provides a basic overview of commercial sexual exploitation of children (CSEC), the extent of the problem, and the impact this type of trauma has on children. It will also include tips for identifying and engaging victims and a discussion of services victims need for healing and reintegration into mainstream society.
Honoring Black Voices in the Anti-Trafficking Movement
Recorded
Hosted by: Framework
Description: In this Framework event, service providers heard from survivors of labor trafficking on why the voices of Black survivors of trafficking are needed, the barriers they continue to face as they engage in advocacy, and provide recommendations on ways that the anti-trafficking movement can engage them in a dignifying way. Additionally, panel moderator Bella Hounakey guides panelists Evelyn Chumbow, James Dold, Kwami Adoboe-Herrera, and Moninda Marube as they speak on the importance of culturally responsive services, the importance of a strengths-based approach, and how aspects of Black identity shows up in supporting survivors.
Non-Discrimination Practices in Housing Programs
Recorded
Hosted by: Freedom Network Training Institute
Description: This webinar provided an overview of how housing programs and service providers can successfully employ non-discrimination practices. The presenters shared best practices for how to uphold survivor rights in different types of housing (Ex: shelters, transitional housing, scattered-site housing, residential). Presenters also discussed the protected classes covered under federal civil rights laws, including race, religion, national origin or ancestry, sex, age, and physical or mental disability.
Conferences
Submission Opportunities
2023 International Conference on Sexual Assault, Domestic Violence, and Fighting for Change – Submissions Requested
Hosted by End Violence Against Women International
Submission Deadline: May 6, 2022
2022 International Association of Crime Analysts Conference – Submissions Requested
Hosted by the National Institute of Justice and the International Association of Crime Analysts
Submission Deadline: May 15, 2022
2022 CESE Global Summit – Submissions Requested
Hosted by the National Center of Sexual Exploitation
Submission Deadline: Unknown
Attendance Opportunities
2022 Collective Impact Virtual Action Summit
Hosted by: Collective Impact Forum
Virtual Conference: April 26-28, 2022
Hosted by: Ascent 21
Hybrid conference in Indiana and virtual: May 19-20, 2022
Hosted by: St. James Research Centre
Conference in Scotland: August 5, 2022
Hosted by the National Center of Sexual Exploitation
Virtual Conference: October 11-15, 2022
Hosted by Shared Hope International
Conference in Forthworth Texas: November 5 – 7, 2022
Funding Opportunities
Rigorous Evaluation of Prevention Strategies to Prevent and Reduce Community Rates of Youth Violence
Source: Department of Justice – Bureau of Justice Assistance
The purpose of this announcement is to fund the National Centers of Excellence in Youth Violence Prevention to continue to build the evidence base for violence prevention strategies and approaches that reduce community rates of youth violence within one or more geographically defined communities with rates of community violence that are higher than the national one. Applications should focus on a community or set of communities with high rates of youth violence for all key activities.
Close Date: April 18, 2022
Tribal Sexual Assault Services Program Solicitation
Source: Department of Justice – Office on Violence Against Women
The purpose of this announcement is to fund the National Centers of Excellence in Youth Violence Prevention to continue to build the evidence base for violence prevention strategies and approaches that reduce community rates of youth violence within one or more geographically defined communities with rates of community violence that are higher than the national one. Applications should focus on a community or set of communities with high rates of youth violence for all key activities.
Close Date: April 19, 2022
NIJ FY22 Youth Mentoring Research and Evaluation
Source: National Institute of Justice
With this solicitation, NIJ seeks applications for rigorous youth mentoring research and evaluation projects to address one or more of the following priority areas: (1) increasing the capacity for achieving broad, population-level impacts; (2) understanding how mentoring can advance change mechanisms promoting positive youth development; (3) examining program participation long-term effects; and (4) optimizing program effectiveness through iterative cycles of development paired with rigorous evaluation feedback.
Close Date: April 20, 2022
Grants to Reduce Domestic Violence, Dating Violence, Sexual Assault and Stalking on Campus Program
Source: Department of Justice – Office on Violence Against Women
The Grants to Reduce Domestic Violence, Dating Violence, Sexual Assault, and Stalking on Campus Program (Campus Program) encourages institutions of higher education to develop and strengthen effective security and investigation strategies to combat domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking on campus, develop and strengthen victim services in cases involving such crimes on campus, and develop and strengthen prevention education and awareness programs.
Close Date: April 21, 2022
NIJ FY22 Research and Evaluation on Trafficking in Persons
Source: National Institute of Justice
With this solicitation, NIJ continues to build upon its research and evaluation efforts to better understand, prevent, and respond to trafficking in persons in the United States. Applicants should propose research and evaluation projects that — first and foremost — have clear implications for criminal justice policy and practice in the United States. NIJ seeks proposals for research and evaluation projects addressing the following priority areas: (1) trafficking prevention, 2) strategies to intervene and respond to trafficking, once it has occurred, and 3) other understudied areas of research on human trafficking.
Close Date: April 22, 2022
Ray Solem Foundation Grant
Source: Ray Solem Foundation
Grants of up to $10,000 to USA nonprofit organizations that assist immigrants and specifically address immigrant-related issues. Priority is given to organizations that create innovative solutions for victims of human trafficking, domestic violence, and unaccompanied immigrant youth. The goal of the grant program is to support the well-being of low-income immigrants in the United States, to advance immigrant welfare, and to ultimately help immigrants become valued and productive members of society.
Close Date: April 26, 2022
Grant Opportunity for the Planting Prosperity Program
Source: Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
Grants to California nonprofit organizations and tribes for programs to prevent child abuse. Special consideration will be given to programs that benefit families from historically underserved communities. The purpose of the program is to implement innovative primary and secondary prevention programs. The purpose of this grant opportunity is to identify up to ten Applicants to accomplish the following goals: Goal 1: Grantees must provide an innovative primary or secondary child abuse prevention program in California directly or through competitively-awarded micro-grants or subcontracts with community-based/neighborhood-
Close Date: April 29, 2022
Project AWARE (Advancing Wellness and Resiliency in Education) State Education Agency Grants
Source: Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
Grants to USA states, counties, LEAs, tribes, nonprofit organizations, and health facilities and services for mental health services and programs that benefit K-12 children and youth. Grant recipients will build collaborative partnerships to implement mental health-related promotion, awareness, prevention, and intervention activities that connect students to behavioral health services. The purpose of the program is to promote the healthy social and emotional development of school-aged youth and prevent youth violence in school settings.
Close Date: May 02, 2022
OJJDP FY 2022 Victims of Child Abuse Regional Children’s Advocacy Centers
Source: Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention
This program furthers the DOJ’s mission by supporting and strengthening four regional children’s advocacy centers that will deliver coordinated training and technical assistance within and across the regions to members of multidisciplinary teams, programs, and organizations to improve the investigation and prosecution of child abuse and neglect and the provision of children’s advocacy center services to child victims and their families.
Close Date: May 03, 2022
OJJDP FY 2022 Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force National Training Program
Source: Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), Office of Justice Programs (OJP), Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) seeks applications for funding under the Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) Task Force National Training Program to design and deliver training to support the ICAC task force network, which includes law enforcement, prosecutors, digital forensic specialists, and other related agencies/organizations that address child sexual abuse material (CSAM) and online child sexual exploitation. This program furthers the DOJ’s mission of keeping the country safe by protecting the public and combating evolving threats of online child sexual exploitation.
Close Date: May 09, 2022
FY 2022 State Justice Statistics Program for Statistical Analysis Centers solicitation
Source: Bureau of Justice Statistics
The FY 2022 SJS program will continue to concentrate on building the core capacities of the state SACs and improving the sharing of state-level information nationally. The SJS program enhances the SACs’ capabilities to collect, analyze, and publish statistical data that support the states’ strategic criminal justice planning needs and BJS and national priorities. SACs are strongly encouraged to collaborate with their State Administering Agency (SAA) on developing FY 2022 SJS projects. Additionally, SACs are encouraged to explore possible collaborations with foundations, academic institutions, and other potential sources of support for building SAC capabilities.
Close Date: May 09, 2022
NIJ FY22 Research and Evaluation on Violence Against Women
Source: National Institute of Justice
This solicitation seeks applications for grant funding to conduct research and evaluation projects examining a broad range of topics, including the crimes of domestic and family violence, homicide, intimate partner and dating violence, rape, sexual assault, stalking, and sex trafficking, along with the associated criminal justice system response, procedures, and policies.
Close Date: May 10, 2022
Hand to Hand – Coastal Community Foundation
Source: Coastal Community Foundation
The mission of Hand to Hand is to make an impact on the lives of women and girls in San Diego County by directing resources to programs that empower change and self-sufficiency. Focus areas include: Education and job training for women; Mentoring programs for women and/or girls; Programs for women re-entering the workforce; Health and wellness programs for women and girls.
Close Date: May 16, 2022
OJJDP FY 2022 Victims of Child Abuse Act Tribal Children’s Advocacy Centers Training
and Technical Assistance
Source: Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention
OJP 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. This solicitation provides funding to support training and technical assistance (TTA) services to develop, improve, or expand children’s advocacy centers (CACs) and multidisciplinary team responses to child abuse cases in American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) communities.
Close Date: May 17, 2022
OJJDP FY 2022 Victims of Child Abuse Act Training and Technical Assistance for Child Abuse Prosecutors
Source: Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention
This training and technical assistance program will address a wide range of topics related to improving the investigation and prosecution of child abuse and neglect, including information regarding improved child interview techniques, thorough investigative methods, interagency coordination, and effective presentation of evidence in court. Training and technical assistance will be provided to prosecutors who prosecute child abuse cases in juvenile and adult courts. The training and technical assistance program will address the prosecution of child physical abuse, child sexual abuse, technology-facilitated child exploitation, and child fatalities. It will also address more specialized topics, such as serial child torture, abusive head trauma, prosecution of abusive burn cases, drowned child cases, hot car deaths, and investigation of female offenders.
Close Date: May 17, 2022
Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinic Planning, Development, and Implementation Grant
Source: Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
Grants to USA nonprofit organizations and government entities to improve the accessibility and quality of mental health services. The purpose of this program is to help to transform community behavioral health systems and provide comprehensive, coordinated behavioral health care by establishing new CCBHC programs. CCBHCs provide person- and family-centered integrated services. The CCBHC-PDI program is designed to support behavioral health care providers that need planning and support to come into compliance with the CCBHC Certification Criteria within one year of participating in the CCBHC-PDI program.
Close Date: May 17, 2022
Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health Program
Source: Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
The purpose of this program is to improve outcomes for children from birth up to 12 years of age by developing, maintaining, or enhancing infant and early childhood mental health promotion, intervention, and treatment services. These services are expected to include: Programs for children at significant risk of developing, showing early signs of, or having been diagnosed with a mental illness, including serious emotional disturbance (SED) and/or symptoms that may be indicative of developing SED in children, including children with a history of in-utero exposure to substances such as opioids, stimulants, or other drugs that may impact development; and Multigenerational therapy and other services that strengthen positive caregiving relationships.
Close Date: May 17, 2022
NIJ FY22 Research and Evaluation of Services for Victims of Crime
Source: National Institute of Justice
In collaboration with the Office for Victims of Crime, NIJ seeks applications for rigorous research and evaluation projects in three categories: 1) Evaluation of Programs that Provide Services for Victims of Crime; 2) Research on Supporting Victims of Community Violence; and 3) Financial Costs of Crime Victimization. As it concerns the second category, NIJ is especially interested in studies that examine strategies and practices to best address the needs of victims of crimes involving firearms, such as street violence (e.g., robbery, home invasions, and carjacking), gang-related violence (e.g., retaliatory and drive-by shootings), and mass public shootings.
Close Date: May 20, 2022
OJJDP FY 2022 Strategies To Support Children Exposed to Violence
Source: Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), Office of Justice Programs (OJP), Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) seeks applications for funding for the fiscal year (FY) 2022 Strategies To Support Children Exposed to Violence. This program furthers the Department’s mission by combating victimization and reducing violent crime.
Close Date: May 24, 2022
OVC FY 2022 Project Beacon: Increasing Access to Services for Urban American Indian and Alaska Native Victims of Human Trafficking Program
Source: Office for Victims of Crime
The overarching goal of this program is to increase the quantity and quality of victim-centered services available to assist American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) victims of human trafficking in urban areas. This will be accomplished by developing the capacity of urban Indian centers to meet victims’ needs by providing a comprehensive range of services either in-house or through referrals to a network of collaborative partners.
Close Date: May 26, 2022
Street Outreach Program
Source: Income Security and Social Services
The Street Outreach Program (SOP) provides street-based services to runaway, homeless, and street youth who have been subjected to or are at risk of being subjected to sexual abuse, prostitution, sexual exploitation, and severe forms of human trafficking in persons. These services, targeted in areas where street youth congregate, are designed to assist such youth in making healthy choices and providing them access to shelter as well as basic needs, including food, hygiene packages, and information on a range of available services.
Close Date: Jun 06, 2022
Grants to USA Nonprofits for Projects and Programs to Benefit Children and Families: When Georgia Smiled Grant
Source: The Robin McGraw and Dr. Phil Foundation
Grants to USA nonprofit organizations for projects and programs to benefit children and families. Funding is intended for activities that address domestic violence, including assault and human trafficking, and organizations that benefit children, especially in the foster care system. The Foundation seeks to support organizations and programs that build awareness, offer solutions and address the needs of children and families to live healthy, safe, and joy-filled lives free of domestic violence and sexual assault.
Ongoing
Wells Fargo Private Foundations
Source: Wells Fargo
Wells Fargo Philanthropic Services provides a full array of services to private and family foundations across the country. For these foundations, Wells Fargo serves as sole trustee, co-trustee, or agent. To serve these foundations, we seek to help non-profit organizations identify appropriate grant resources for specific funding needs. To help you find these grants, we provide a wide range of information about these foundations through our search feature.
Ongoing
Neo Philanthropy (Foundation Funding)
Source: Neo Philanthropy
Through 12 funds, including the Four Freedoms Fund™ and State Infrastructure Fund, NEO has designed and led large-scale collaborative grantmaking funds, connecting donors with aligned values to support work they could not fund as effectively on their own.
Ongoing
Costco Charitable Contributions (Foundation Funding)
Source: Costco Charitable Contributions Foundation
Costco Wholesale’s primary charitable efforts specifically focus on programs supporting children, education, and health and human services in the communities where we do business. Throughout the year we receive a large number of requests from nonprofit organizations striving to make a positive impact, and we are thankful to be able to provide support to a variety of organizations and causes.
Ongoing
W.K. Kellogg Foundation (Foundation Funding)
Source: W.K. Kellogg Foundation
The W.K. Kellogg Foundation supports children, families, and communities as they strengthen and create conditions that propel vulnerable children to achieve success as individuals and as contributors to the larger community and society.
Ongoing
Victims of Human Trafficking in Native Communities (VHT-NC) Demonstration Program
Source: Income Security and Social Services
The Office on Trafficking in Persons within the Administration for Children and Families is announcing funds for the Victims of Human Trafficking in Native Communities (VHT-NC) Demonstration Program. The VHT-NC Demonstration Program’s goal is to directly fund organizations that will build, expand, and sustain organizational and community capacity to deliver services to Native American adults and minors who have experienced a severe form of human trafficking as defined by the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000, as amended, through the provision of direct services, assistance, and referrals.
Post Date Delayed
Human Trafficking Prevention Education (HTYPE) Demonstration Program
Source: Office on Trafficking in Persons within the Administration for Children and Families
Under the HTYPE Demonstration Program, the following activities are required: 1) provide human trafficking education that equips educators and other staff to identify and respond to signs that students are at high risk of or are currently experiencing human trafficking; 2) deliver student human trafficking prevention education that is designed to build student resilience to labor trafficking and sex trafficking by strengthening student knowledge and skills; 3) train qualified individuals to implement and replicate project activities throughout the school district or identified target area(s); 4) establish and implement a Human Trafficking School Safety Protocol.
Post Date Delayed
Aspire: Child and Youth Trafficking Assistance Demonstration Program
Source: Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families
Aspire’s goal is to provide national coverage of comprehensive case management and other supportive services to domestic and foreign national children and youth who have experienced severe forms of human trafficking, as defined by the Trafficking Victims Protection Act (TVPA) of 2000, as amended, and are not currently receiving, or able to receive, similar trafficking-specific services from another federally funded program. Aspire must also establish local regional presence to coordinate project activities and direct services. Case management services must be provided to qualified persons directly by the prime recipient and may also be provided through a network of subcontracted providers, that provide direct services and community referrals.
Post Date Delayed
Services to Victims of a Severe Form of Trafficking
Source: Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families
OTIP encourages the establishment of community partnerships, meaningful engagement of individuals who have experienced trafficking, and the hiring of qualified professionals that reflect the communities being served in all project implementation strategies. Under the VHT-SO Pacific Region Demonstration Program, there is a 12-month project implementation period for the prime recipient to facilitate optional partnerships, onboard new staff, develop service protocols specific to foreign nationals who have experienced human trafficking, and develop a sustainability plan.
Post Date Delayed
Domestic Victims of Human Trafficking Services and Outreach Program
Source: Administration for Children and Families
The Office on Trafficking in Persons within the Administration for Children and Families is announcing funding for the Domestic Victims of Human Trafficking Services and Outreach (DVHT- SO) Program. The DVHT-SO Program’s goal is to fund organizations that will build, expand, and sustain the organizational and local capacity to deliver services to domestic adults and minors who have experienced severe forms of human trafficking as defined by the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000, as amended through victim outreach, identification, case management, direct services, assistance, and referrals.
Post Date Delayed
Lighthouse: Services, Outreach, and Awareness for Labor Trafficking Demonstration Program
Source: Administration for Children and Families
The Lighthouse Demonstration Program’s goal is to directly fund organizations that will build, expand, and sustain organizational and community capacity to deliver services to adult and minor, foreign national individuals who have experienced labor trafficking
Post Date Delayed