Assistance program
Services for Trafficking Victims
$553.3 Million committed in FY2018–FY2026
- Agency
- Office of Justice Programs, Justice, Department of
- Assistance
- Project Grants;Direct Payments for Specified Use
- CFDA number
- 16.320
- What it does
- Specific goals vary by solicitation, but the overarching goal of the Services for Victims of Trafficking program is to develop, expand, or strengthen victim service programs for victims of trafficking. Specific objectives vary by solicitation, but include the following: 1. Providing comprehensive and specialized services to victims of human trafficking; 2. Developing multidisciplinary task forces with federal, state, and local law enforcement, service providers, and community- and faith-based organizations to ensure that trafficking victims are identified and referred for appropriate services, and that these cases are investigated and prosecuted; 3. Conducting training, technical assistance and public awareness activities for professionals and community members in order to improve their knowledge of human trafficking and their ability to identify and respond to victims; and 4. Conducting data collection and evaluation activities to determine if the program is meeting stated goals and objectives. Performance measures for this assistance listing are: 1.Number of victims served though human trafficking grant programs 2.Number of types of victimizations (sex, labor, sex and labor, or unknown) for all trafficking victims identified through the human trafficking grant programs
- Who benefits
- Eligible victim assistance agencies. Eligibility depends on the nature of they may vary depending on specific grant types but generally includes victims and potential victims of human trafficking, as defined in TVPA, but may include a wide variety of public and private nonprofit agencies.
- Who applies
- The Attorney General may make grants to States, Indian tribes, units of local government, and nonprofit, non- governmental victim service organizations.
- Authorized by
- 22 USC 7105(b2)(A).
- Program site
- http://www.ovc.gov ↗
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.
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- Committed through this program
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Direct payments