OVC FY 2022 Improving Outcomes for Child and Youth Victims of Human Trafficking

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. To enhance capacity to identify, assist, and provide services to all victims of human trafficking, OVC leads the Nation in supporting victim-centered and trauma-informed programs, policies, and resources that promote justice, access, and empowerment. This program intends to improve outcomes for children and youth who are victims of human trafficking by integrating human trafficking policy and programming at the state or tribal level and enhancing coordinated, multidisciplinary, and statewide approaches to serving trafficked youth. This solicitation has two categories. The first category seeks applications for up to three state or tribal jurisdictions to identify the state or tribe’s greatest barriers to identifying and assisting child and youth victims of sex and labor trafficking and/or to investigating and prosecuting these cases, and to develop a statewide or tribal jurisdiction-wide strategy to address these challenges. The second category seeks an applicant to provide training and technical assistance (TTA) that is tailored and specific to the sites funded under the Improving Outcomes for Child and Youth Victims of Human Trafficking program (both those that are currently funded and those that become funded during the duration of the TTA award), and to support states and tribes that are not currently funded under this program but are seeking to build their capacity to develop a statewide or tribal jurisdiction-wide strategy to address these challenges. This program will provide funding for services to victims of severe forms of human trafficking, as defined by 22 U.S.C. § 7102(11).