November 2021Monthly Update
Updates
HT Research Conference 2021 Recap

Invite code: HTRADAR2021
New HT-RADAR Program Director hired:
Luz Aurora Aramburo
Quarterly Meeting
HT-RADAR Quarterly Meeting
The next HT-RADAR meeting is scheduled for December 9, 2021 from 11:30am to 1:30pm (PST) and will be held virtually over Zoom.
Meeting details to follow.
Registration Link: here
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.Save the date for future HT-RADAR Meetings:
March 24, 2022 from 11:30am – 1:30pm (PST)
Community Highlights
Human Trafficking Institute Releases 2020 State Prosecution Reports

Human Trafficking and Health Care Providers: Tool for Legal Requirements for Reporting and Education
The tool covers, for the federal government and each of the 50 United States, a summary of the applicable laws on the following topics: reporting of child abuse; reporting of sex and/or labor trafficking; and required regulation of anti-trafficking education of health care providers.

Recruitment, Human Trafficking, and Temporary Visa Workers

Responding to Online Threats: Minors’ Perspectives on Disclosing, Reporting, and Blocking

Thorn is a nonprofit corporation that develops technology tools aimed at protecting young people online. According to the group, they are continuing to invest in research to understand young people’s instincts around disclosures and reporting, the barriers minors face, and their resulting actions. At base, we are asking the question: what makes or breaks a minor’s decision to turn to a specific support system?
NIJ’s Research Assistantship Program

- Students have until January 3, 2022 to work with their schools to apply.
Opportunities & Resources
Webinars
What About the Buyers? Fighting Human Trafficking by Fighting Demand
Date: December 16, 2021
Hosted by: ATI
Valiant Richey, a global expert on human trafficking, joins Anti-Trafficking International for a conversation about how communities, law enforcement, and political leaders can come together to stop the demand for human trafficking. This webinar is for advocates, parents, law enforcement, and policymakers, as well as civilians and businesses in the private sector.
Developing a Labor Trafficking Orientation for New Staff
Hosted by: Framework
In this training, Cristobal Perez helps to prepare supervisors to build confidence and competence of new staff members. Learn how to set your staff up for success in their work to identify and serve labor trafficking survivors. Topics will include top onboarding practices, labor trafficking training topics, essential and recommended labor trafficking resources to share, and intake and service delivery considerations
The Intersection of Substance Use, Mental Health & Commercial Sexual Exploitation
Hosted by: The Avery Center
Based on data collected by The Avery Center, substances were used both as a means of control by traffickers and as a way to “numb the pain of the repeated trauma” of being trafficked. Additionally, the most common exit strategy for victims in our study was suicide attempt as a way to safely be admitted to a hospital and be separated from a trafficker. Strategies for addressing how each of these indicators present in a health care setting will be discussed in depth in this training. Sponsored by Banner Health.
Conferences
(Listed here)
This resource page is regularly updated. Questions? Or know of conferences that you’d like to share with the HT-RADAR network? Contact us!
2021 Crime Victim Law Conference
Hosted by: National Crime Victim Law Institute
Hybrid: Virtual or the Oregon Convention Center: November 11-13, 2021
Hosted by: Thomson Reuters Foundation
Virtual: November 17-18, 2021
Hosted by Shared Hope International
Washington DC: November 17-19, 2021
Funding Opportunities
(Listed here)
This resource page is regularly updated. Questions? Or know of conferences that you’d like to share with the HT-RADAR network? Contact us!
Human Trafficking Victim Assistance Program
Source: California Office of Emergency Services
The purpose of the Human Trafficking Victim Assistance Program is to help human trafficking victims (both sex and labor trafficking) recover from the trauma they experienced and assist with reintegration into society through the provision of comprehensive safety and supportive services including, but not limited to, housing assistance, counseling services, and other social services, using a trauma-informed, victim-centered approach. This grant covers services provided by organizations that meet eligibility requirements to provide services to survivors of trafficking.
Close Date: December 30, 2021
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.
Close Date: On-going
Neo Philanthropy (Foundation Funding)
Source: Neo Philanthropy
Through 12 funds, including the Four Freedoms FundTM 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.
Close Date: On-going
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.
Close Date: On-going
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.
Close Date: On-going
Forecasted Opportunities:
Services to Victims of a Severe Form of Trafficking
Source: Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families
OTIP is encouraging 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, on-board new staff, develop service protocols specific to foreign nationals who have experienced human trafficking, and develop a sustainability plan.
Estimated Post Date: March 21, 2022
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
Estimated Post Date: March 21, 2022