Opportunity Information: Apply for O OVC 2022 171313
The OVC FY 2022 Improving Outcomes for Child and Youth Victims of Human Trafficking grant opportunity, offered by the U.S. Department of Justice Office for Victims of Crime (OVC) under the Office of Justice Programs (OJP), is designed to help states and federally recognized tribes strengthen how they identify, protect, and serve children and youth who have been trafficked. The program is rooted in OJP priorities that emphasize civil rights and racial equity, broader access to justice, stronger community safety, and building trust between communities and systems such as law enforcement and the courts. At its core, the initiative promotes victim-centered and trauma-informed approaches, meaning it prioritizes the safety, autonomy, and well-being of young victims while aiming to reduce harm that can come from system involvement.
The purpose of the funding is to improve outcomes for child and youth victims of both sex trafficking and labor trafficking by making human trafficking policy and programming more integrated at the statewide or tribal jurisdiction level. Rather than focusing only on isolated local projects, OVC is pushing for coordinated, multidisciplinary, jurisdiction-wide approaches that bring together key partners like child welfare, victim service providers, healthcare, education, law enforcement, prosecutors, juvenile justice, and other community-based organizations. The idea is that trafficked youth often touch multiple systems, and without shared strategies and coordination, they can be missed, misidentified, or left without consistent services.
The solicitation is structured into two categories. Category 1 is intended for up to three state or tribal jurisdictions. Under this category, the funded jurisdictions are expected to take a hard look at their biggest barriers to effectively identifying and helping child and youth victims of trafficking, and/or to investigating and prosecuting trafficking cases involving young victims. Barriers could include gaps in screening and identification protocols, lack of specialized services, inconsistent data sharing, limited cross-agency coordination, training shortages, unclear legal procedures, mistrust between youth and authorities, or the specific complexities of serving youth who have experienced trauma. The goal is for each funded jurisdiction to use that assessment to create a statewide or tribal jurisdiction-wide strategy to address the challenges in a practical, organized way.
Category 2 supports a different kind of applicant: a provider of training and technical assistance (TTA). This award is meant to deliver tailored support to the jurisdictions funded through this program, including sites already funded in prior cycles and any new sites funded during the period of the TTA award. In addition, the TTA provider is expected to assist states and tribes that are not currently funded but want to build the capacity needed to develop a similar statewide or tribal strategy. In practice, that can mean developing tools, hosting trainings, offering peer learning opportunities, helping jurisdictions convene partners, advising on policy and protocol development, and supporting the implementation of coordinated approaches that match the realities of each jurisdiction.
The opportunity uses a cooperative agreement funding instrument, which typically means OVC expects substantial involvement and collaboration during the life of the project, not just a hands-off grant. The program sits within the broader funding activity area of income security and social services and is associated with CFDA number 16.320. Funding is intended to support services for victims of severe forms of human trafficking as defined in federal law (22 U.S.C. 7102(11)), reinforcing that the funds are aligned with established legal definitions and victim protections.
Eligible applicants are broad and include state governments, federally recognized tribal governments, public and state-controlled institutions of higher education, nonprofit organizations with 501(c)(3) status (other than institutions of higher education), for-profit organizations (including entities other than small businesses), and small businesses. This range is meant to allow both governmental and non-governmental entities to participate, depending on which category they are applying for and what role they would play in building statewide or tribal capacity. The posting was created on April 29, 2022, with an original closing date of June 22, 2022. OVC anticipated making about four awards total, with an award ceiling of up to $1,500,000 per award.
Overall, the grant is aimed less at creating one-off direct service expansions in a single community and more at building durable, statewide or tribal frameworks that improve identification, coordination, service delivery, and system responses for trafficked children and youth. It recognizes that better outcomes require aligned policies, shared practices across agencies, and ongoing technical support so jurisdictions can move from fragmented responses to consistent, victim-centered approaches that work across an entire state or tribal nation.Apply for O OVC 2022 171313
- The Department of Justice, Office for Victims of Crime in the income security and social services sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "OVC FY 2022 Improving Outcomes for Child and Youth Victims of Human Trafficking" and is now available to receive applicants.
- Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 16.320.
- This funding opportunity was created on Apr 29, 2022.
- Applicants must submit their applications by Jun 22, 2022. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
- Each selected applicant is eligible to receive up to $1,500,000.00 in funding.
- The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 4 candidate(s).
- Eligible applicants include: State governments, Public and State controlled institutions of higher education, Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized), Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education, For profit organizations other than small businesses, Small businesses.
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