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Sex trafficking

Project TRUST E-Learning Curriculum Launched

Learn about a new curriculum to help anti-trafficking professionals understand trauma and human trafficking and how to support individuals impacted by trafficking-related trauma.

OVC FY 2022 Services for Victims of Human Trafficking

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The purpose of this program is to develop, expand, or strengthen victim service programs for victims of human trafficking. OVC will make awards under three program purpose areas.

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

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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.

OVC FY 2022 Field-Generated Strategies to Address the Criminalization of Minor Victims of Sex Trafficking

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The purpose of this program is to end the criminalization of minor victims of sex trafficking and develop, expand, or strengthen victim service programs to support victim-centered, trauma-informed, developmentally appropriate, and evidence-based responses to minor victims of sex trafficking.

Standards of Care for Human Trafficking Survivors

March 2022

Office for Victims of Crime Director Kristina Rose and the Office on Trafficking in Persons Director Katherine Chon discuss programs managed by both offices that support survivors of human trafficking. They also discuss how the anti-trafficking field has evolved over decades and highlight a new joint effort to develop standards of care for service providers supporting human trafficking survivors.

OVC Transfer DCR-Enhanced Collaborative Model to Combat Human Trafficking

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The purpose of the Enhanced Collaborative Model to Combat Human Trafficking Program is to support the development and enhancement of multidisciplinary human trafficking task forces that implement collaborative approaches to combating all forms of human trafficking within the United States sex trafficking and labor trafficking of foreign nationals and U.S. citizens (of all sexes and ages). OVC and BJA intend for funding through this program...

OVC Transfer DCR- FY 17 Enhanced Collaborative Model To Combat Human Trafficking

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OVC and BJA will award between $600,000 and $900,000 to law enforcement agencies and victim service providers to work collaboratively to enhance multidisciplinary human trafficking task forces that combat sex and labor trafficking of foreign nationals and U.S. citizens of all sexes and ages. Eligible applicants are law enforcement agencies and victim service providers who submit separate but coordinated proposals that outline how the funding...