Assistance program
Preventing Trafficking of Girls
$10.3 Million committed in FY2020–FY2026
- Agency
- Office of Justice Programs, Justice, Department of
- Assistance
- Not Applicable
- CFDA number
- 16.035
- What it does
- The purpose of this program is to support the prevention and early intervention services, including mentoring and other direct support services, for girls who are at risk of or are victims of sex trafficking. The goal of this program is to prevent/reduce victimization of girls who are vulnerable to sex trafficking. Objectives include: • To replicate and scale-up prevention and early intervention programs (including mentoring programs) for girls who are at risk of or are victims of sex trafficking that have undergone rigorous evaluation and/or have a track record of success. Program models should include a plan to develop effective services and interventions for high-risk girls, including those with a history of trauma caused by physical and sexual abuse, commercial sexual exploitation, and domestic minor sex trafficking. • To Implement or enhance efforts to identify and provide services to girls who are at risk of or are victims of sexual exploitation or sex trafficking. This may include street outreach efforts, partnerships with organizations that serve the youth community, and/or collaboration with key stakeholders in the community. Programs should be based upon best practices, and may include a variety of services (i.e., mentoring, educational, counseling, etc.). OJJDP expects successful applicants to work closely with the selected training and technical assistance provider. The performance measures for this assistance listing are: 1.Number of victims served though the Preventing Trafficking of Girls program 2.Number of types of victimizations (sex, labor, sex and labor, or unknown) for all trafficking victims identified through the Preventing Trafficking of Girls program
- Who benefits
- *Note the beneficiaries must be under age 18 The ultimate beneficiaries of this program are girls who are vulnerable to sex trafficking. Risk factors that make girls vulnerable to sex trafficking include a history of childhood sexual and physical abuse, witnessing domestic violence, involvement in the child welfare and juvenile justice systems, poverty, running away or being homeless, a lack of strong support networks (family, peers, community ties, etc.), school failure, and substance dependency. Eligible applicants that propose to provide direct services to youth must not include youth who are age 18 or older in the population they will serve.
Committed by fiscal year
* FY2026 is year-to-date — the fiscal year is still in progress, so its total is still filling in. The striped band and dashed line mark that provisional stretch.
Top recipients
By dollars committed.
How to read these numbers
- Committed through this program
Money committed under this assistance listing (its CFDA program), counted in the year each action happened.
- How it's paid
Most programs pay out one way — a grant, or a direct payment to individuals; the flow bar only appears when a program genuinely mixes types.
- Some recipients aren't itemized
For entitlement programs like Social Security and Medicare, the government reports one aggregate instead of naming tens of millions of people, so the recipient roster isn't part of the public record.
- Awards, counted once
An award count is the number of distinct awards with at least one action that year — each counted once, however many times it was amended.
- The colored bars
Every bar on this page splits by how the money moves:
Direct payments