OVC FY09 Services for Domestic Minor Victims of Human Trafficking

Post Date

June 15th 2009

Application Due Date

July 13th 2009

All applicants must register in the Grants Management System at https://grants.ojp.usdoj.gov/ to apply online for the funding opportunity titled “OVC FY09 Services for Domestic Minor Victims of Human Trafficking.” The deadline to register is 8:00 p.m

Funding Opportunity Number

OVC-2009-2305

CFDA Number(s)

16.320

Funding Instrument Type(s)

Cooperative Agreement

Funding Activity Categories

Income Security and Social Services
Law, Justice and Legal Services

Number of Awards

2

Eligibility Categories

State Governments
County Governments
City or Township Governments
Federally Recognized Native American Tribal Governments
Non-Profits With 501 (c) (3) Status With The IRS (Except Higher Education Institutions)

By statute, grants under this program may be awarded to states, Indian tribes, units of local government, tribal governments, and nonprofit, nongovernmental organizations. For the purposes of this program, a unit of local government is any city, county, township, town, borough, parish, village, or other general-purpose political subdivision of a state, including local courts, law enforcement agencies, prosecutor’s offices, and public shelters. Applicants must demonstrate that they have the expertise and organizational capacity to successfully undertake an initiative that involves significant collaboration with local, state, and federal law enforcement, as well as local public agencies, victim service providers, and nonprofit and faith-based organizations that serve youth, in order to develop, enhance, or expand a comprehensive model of service delivery to minors who have been subjected to sex or labor trafficking as defined by the Trafficking Victims Protection Act (TVPA) of 2000.

Funding

• Estimated Total Funding:

  $1600000

• Award Range:

  $0 - $800000

Grant Description

Two cooperative agreements of up to $800,000 each will be awarded to identify promising practices in the delivery of comprehensive services to victims of sex and labor trafficking who are U.S. citizens or lawful permanent residents under the age of 18. Each demonstration site will provide comprehensive services to domestic minor victims of human trafficking; develop, enhance, or expand the community response to domestic minor victims; participate in a process evaluation funded through the National Institute of Justice (NIJ); and produce a final report that may be disseminated through OVC to the victim’s field.

Contact Information

• Agency

  Department of Justice

• Office:

  Office of Justice Programs

• Agency Contact:

  Mary Atlas-Terry
  Victim Justice Program Specialist
  Phone 202-353-8473
  

• Agency Mailing Address:

  For Programmatic Questions

• Agency Email Address:

  mary.atlas-terry@usdoj.gov

• Location:

  Office for Victims of Crime

• More Information:

  OVC Discretionary Funding Opportunity