The purpose of the Enhanced Collaborative Model to Combat Human Trafficking Program is to support the development and enhancement of multidisciplinary human trafficking task forces that implement collaborative approaches to combating all forms of human trafficking within the United States' sex trafficking and labor trafficking of foreign nationals and U.S. citizens (of all sexes and ages). OVC and BJA intend for funding through this FY 2017 program to be used to enhance the effectiveness of multidisciplinary task forces that are implementing victim-centered and coordinated approaches to identify victims of all types of human trafficking, addressing the individualized needs of victims through quality services, and investigating and prosecuting human trafficking cases at the local, state, tribal, and federal levels. Through this solicitation, OVC and BJA will make awards to support law enforcement and victim service provider efforts within human trafficking task forces. Within each geographic region covered by a task force, two separate awards will be made (one to a lead law enforcement agency and one to a lead victim service provider); however, the total amount of funding that will be awarded for each task force will not exceed $1.5 million. The law enforcement and victim service provider applicants must submit separate but coordinated proposals that outline how this funding will be used over a 3-year project period to combat human trafficking within the specific geographic area, in coordination with other key members of the task force, including the U.S. Attorney's Office (USAO); local prosecutor's office; local, state, and federal law enforcement; and community and system-based service providers.
Awards
Number of Awards: 18
Total Amount Awarded: $12,707,809
Enhanced Collaborative Strategy to Combat Human Trafficking
- Palm Beach County
Cook County Enhanced Collaborative Model to Combat Human Trafficking
- Cook County (Chicago)
- Northern District of Illinois
Denver Anti-Trafficking Alliance Enhanced Collaborative Model 2018
- City/County of Denver
Development of Human Trafficking Task Forces
Enhanced Collaborative Model - Human Trafficking Task Force FY18
- Greater New Orleans Metro Area, Orleans and Jefferson Parishes
FY 2018 ECM Task Force To Combat Human Trafficking
Honolulu County Human Trafficking Task Force
- City and County of Honolulu
Human Trafficking Task Force Development for Contra Costa County
- Contra Costa County
Human Trafficking Task Force of Eastern Missouri
- Federal Eastern District of Missouri
Increasing Human Trafficking Task Force Effectiveness
Los Angeles Regional Human Trafficking Task Force (LARHTTF)
- Los Angeles County
Multidisciplinary Anti-Human Trafficking Strategies
- Suffolk County
Riverside County Anti-Human Trafficking Task Force
- Riverside County
South Florida Human Trafficking Task Force
- Monroe County
- Miami-Dade County
- Broward County
The Brooklyn Human Trafficking Task Force (BKHTTF)
- King's County (Brooklyn, NY)
Utah Trafficking in Persons Task Force
Washington Advisory Committee on Trafficking (Wash ACT)
- Western Washington (King, Snohomish, and Pierce Counties)
Western District of New York Human Trafficking Task Force & Alliance
- 17 Counties within Western District of New York