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FY 2018 Field-Generated Innovations in Assistance to Victims of Human Trafficking

June 14, 2018

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Presenter Kristin Weschler Grants Management Specialist Office for Victims of Crime

Webinar Overview

• Goals
• Eligibility
• Purpose Areas
• Applications – Key Elements
• Budget
• Contacts
• Question and Answers

Goals

Develop or enhance promising practices, models, and programs, or apply them in innovative ways, to build the capacity of victim service providers to:

• increase the availability of evidence-based and trauma-

informed mental health and substance abuse services for victims of human trafficking; and,

• address barriers in identifying and assisting labor

trafficking victims.

Eligibility

States, units of local government, federally recognized Indian tribal governments, nonprofits, and nongovernmental

• rganizations (including tribal).

Purpose Areas

Purpose Area (PA)1: Evidence-Based, Trauma-Informed Services for Victims of Human Trafficking. Purpose Area (PA) 2: Address Barriers to Identify and Assist Labor Trafficking Victims.

PA1: Evidence-Based, Trauma-Informed Services for Victims of Human Trafficking

Objectives:

• Improve the quality & quantity of evidence-based and

trauma-informed services for HT victims.

• Provide TA to increase the capacity of mental health

service providers to develop evidence-based trauma interventions and other trauma-informed services.

• Provide direct services for all human trafficking

victims.

PA1: Evidence-Based, Trauma-Informed Services for Victims of Human Trafficking

• Identify promising practices and the delivery of evidence-

based, trauma-informed clinical, mental health, and substance abuse services within a system of care, as clinically necessary, for victims of human trafficking.

• Implement interventions deemed promising or effective.
• Fund new/existing mental health and substance abuse

services for trafficking victims.

• Provide ongoing clinical supervision and guidance to staff on

how to use evidence-based trauma interventions with adult, adolescent, and child victims of human trafficking.

PA1: Structure

• New programs: use up to 12 months for
• rganizational assessment, planning, and staff
• training. The remaining period, program

implementation.

• Existing programs: address identified

challenges or gaps through enhancements to the trauma-informed approach.

PA 2: Address Barriers to Identify and Assist Labor Trafficking Victims

Objectives:

• Support community capacity to identify and assist victims of

labor trafficking, across all disciplines, through a victim- centered and collaborative approach.

• Address individual needs of labor trafficking victims through

the provision of a comprehensive array of services.

• Provide direct services for labor trafficking victims,

addressing barriers that inhibit the identification and reporting of labor trafficking.

PA 2: Project Goals

• Develop innovative projects aimed at increasing

identification of labor trafficking victims and enhance service delivery.

• Focus on creating/strengthening partnerships to

increase victim identification and/or offer direct services.

Application - Key Elements

• Program Narrative
• Budget Detail Worksheet and Budget

Narrative

• Plan for Data Collection
• Plan for Action Research
• Project Timeline
• LOI from a Law Enforcement and/or

Prosecutorial Agency

• MOUs, LOIs, and Subawards

Budget Information

• Three awards under each purpose area,
• f up to $600K each
• 3-year project period
• Cost sharing/Match: 25% of total costs

required

• Start date: October 1, 2018

Budget – Special Considerations

• Administrative Costs: <10% of total direct costs
• Data collection and action research: 2-7% of total

project costs, including match.

• Training and public awareness: 2-5% of total

project costs, including match.

Submission Deadline

11:59 p.m. EST Friday, July 9, 2018

Technical Assistance for Submitting an Application: For technical assistance with submitting an application, contact the Grants.Gov Customer Support Hotline: – Phone: 800–518–4726 or 606–545–5035 – Email: support@grants.gov or https://grants.gov/web/grants/support.html Solicitation Requirements, Programmatic and General Assistance: For programmatic and general assistance with the solicitation requirements, contact the National Criminal Justice Reference Service (NCJRS) Response Center: – Phone: 800–851–3420 – Email: at grants@ncjrs.gov – web chat at https://webcontact.ncjrs.gov/ncjchat/chat.jsp. – Hours of operation: 10:00 a.m.– 6:00 p.m., eastern time, Monday through Friday, and from 10:00 a.m.–8:00 p.m., eastern time on the solicitation closing date.

Important Contact Information

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