Services for Trafficking Victims

Program goal(s) name: Improve identification of and support for victims of human trafficking.

Program goal(s) description: Develop, expand, and improve the quality and availability of services for victims of human trafficking.

Program objective(s) name: Expand services and programs, provide response training, build field capacity to provide services, and increase task force engagement to improve referrals, investigations, and prosecutions.

Program objective(s) description: Increase the types of services and programs available to serve various types of human trafficking victims; Train individuals to respond to human trafficking; Develop protocols and procedures to address sex and labor trafficking; Enhance the capacity of the field to provide quality victim services; and Increase multidisciplinary partners engaged in task force activities to ensure that trafficking victims are identified and referred for appropriate services, and that these cases are investigated and prosecuted.

All final award decisions will be made by the Assistant Attorney General, unless a statute explicitly authorizes award decisions by another official or there is written delegation of authority to another official. For successful applicants, JustGrants will send a system-generated email to the Application Submitter, Authorized Representative, and Entity Administrator with information on accessing their official award package in JustGrants. The award package will include key information (such as funding amount and period of performance) as well as award conditions that must be followed. The Authorized Representative for the entity should accept or decline the award within 45 days of the notification.

The review procedure for applications is specified in the notice of funding opportunity (NOFO) and generally includes eligibility and responsiveness, merit, programmatic, budget, and risk reviews.