Through its cadre of training and technical assistance (TTA) providers, OVC provides practitioner-driven, evidence-based TTA that is responsive to the particular needs of victim service providers and system stakeholders, their communities, and the victims they serve. These providers strengthen the victim assistance responses to human trafficking, support multidisciplinary task forces and cross-sector collaboration, and build stakeholder capacity and leadership in identifying human trafficking victims and connecting them to services.
Locate upcoming training opportunities from OVC’s human training and technical assistance providers and other stakeholders by conducting a search of OVC's events page.
OVC Training and Technical Assistance Center
The OVC Training and Technical Assistance Center (OVC TTAC) offers education and tools to the victim services field at no cost, so those who provide services have the skills to reach out to victims of every type of crime, from every background, in every place, and offer them what they need to rebuild their lives. Resources to assist anti-trafficking stakeholders include:
- Understanding Human Trafficking Online Training, a series of five interactive online modules that offer foundational learning on trauma-informed and victim-centered approaches to human trafficking.
- Recorded Webinars on Human Trafficking
- Human Trafficking Action Research Toolkit
- The Human Trafficking Task Force e-Guide
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OVC Financial Management Resource Center
The OVC Financial Management Resource Center offers no-cost financial management training and technical assistance to OVC human trafficking and discretionary grantees as they enhance their capacity to manage the financial aspects of their federal awards.
Building and Integrating Trauma-Conscious Engagement
This OVC-sponsored self-paced e-learning curriculum supports diverse stakeholders in the anti-trafficking field build trauma-conscious and person-centered practices in service delivery. Enroll in this course.
OVC Human Trafficking Program FAQs
Grantees are expected to be familiar with the program requirements detailed in the fiscal year solicitation under which the award was made, and with the terms and conditions contained in their award documents. Discover answers to frequently asked questions about OVC human trafficking awards on our Human Trafficking Program FAQs page.
Specialized Human Trafficking Training and Technical Assistance Providers
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| Coalition to Abolish Slavery and Trafficking - Comprehensive Legal Training and Technical Assistance | The Coalition to Abolish Slavery and Trafficking builds the capacity of legal and social service providers to deliver services to human trafficking victims and increase victims’ access to the full spectrum of legal remedies available to them to increase their safety, financial wellbeing, independence and self-sufficiency through access to trained legal service providers. In-person and virtual TTA is available to improve the quality and quantity of legal services and pro bono attorneys across the United States; and improve social service provider capacity to identify the legal service needs of human trafficking victims, provide reliable referrals, and work effectively with legal service providers. |
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| Freedom Network USA - Freedom Network Training Institute Housing Training and Technical Assistance Project | This project seeks to enhance the victim service field’s response to the housing needs of victims of human trafficking. Freedom Network USA is working to improve the quality and quantity of housing services offered to trafficking survivors by increasing capacity of victim service providers nationwide, including through strengthening victim service providers’ partnerships at the national, state, and local levels with housing stakeholders. |
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| OVC Human Trafficking Collective (HTC) | OVC HTC delivers TTA exclusively to OVC Human Trafficking Victim Service Program grantees and their partners, delivering customized TTA designed to meet the needs of grantees, their teams, and community stakeholders. The purpose of the HTC is to—
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| RTI International - Improving Outcomes for Child and Youth Victims of Human Trafficking Technical Assistance | Through specialized, targeted TTA, RTI supports the OVC’s Improving Outcomes for Child and Youth Victims of Human Trafficking grantees as they work to enhance their jurisdiction-wide coordination and multidisciplinary collaboration to address human trafficking involving children and youth. |
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| Futures Without Violence - Promoting Employment Opportunities for Survivors of Trafficking Program | This initiative aims to increase access to quality educational and sustainable employment opportunities for human trafficking survivors. Futures Without Violence provides support to human trafficking service providers and allied organizations in the human services and workforce development field through its Peer Economic Empowerment Learning Collaborative, Partnering to Open Economic Pathways Institute, and Survivor-Led Employment Success Program, as well as through national webinars and technical assistance calls. |
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| ICF Incorporated - Capacity Building and Implementation | ICF Incorporated supports task forces with capacity building and implementation strategies to develop and sustain a high functioning collaborative task force. ICF manages and facilitates a peer liaison program, conducts site assessments, assists with strategic planning, and convenes events to explore and identify gaps in emerging issues to recommend training solutions for multidisciplinary task force teams. Contact ICF at [email protected]. |
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| AEquitas - Maximizing Justice Minimizing Harm; The Prosecutor’s Role in Achieving Survivor-Centered Justice | AEquitas will develop and promote survivor-centered and trauma-informed practices and enhanced human trafficking case prosecutions, by delivering experience-based, data-driven TTA to prosecutors. |
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| Vera Institute of Justice (Vera) - Support to Law Enforcement for Responding to Human Trafficking of People with Disabilities | Vera, in partnership with Activating Change, Inc. and the International Organization for Adolescents, will design a comprehensive, self-paced online training and related resources to increase law enforcement’s ability to identify human trafficking victims with disabilities. The courses will include a combination of short videos, written content, and interactive exercises. |
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| Youth Collaboratory - Preventing Trafficking of Girls Training and Technical Assistance | As the TTA provider for the OVC Preventing Trafficking of Girls initiative, Youth Collaboratory supports 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 is to prevent/reduce the victimization of girls vulnerable to commercial sexual exploitation by expanding the capacity and skills of the program sites, other providers, and community stakeholders working to prevent trafficking of girls. |
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| Freedom Network USA – Standards of Care for Anti-Trafficking Service Providers | Working in partnership with OVC and HHS OTIP, Freedom Network will lead a Technical Working Group in the creation of standards of care for services to victims of human trafficking. The project will leverage existing resources, including the OVC's Achieving Excellence: Model Standards for Serving Victims & Survivors of Crime and gather input and feedback from anti-trafficking providers across the Nation throughout the development of the standards. |
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| ICF Incorporated and Survivor Alliance – Supporting Survivor Engagement in Anti-Trafficking Programming | Through this project, Survivor Alliance and ICF will assist OVC grantees in meaningful engagement with survivors. The entirely survivor-led team will work to support OVC HT grantees and their partners in intentional and sustainable engagement with survivors to improve anti-trafficking programming. |
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| International Rescue Committee - Framework - Tools to Combat Labor Trafficking | Framework offers engaging and user-friendly resources to equip the field with the tools necessary to identify and provide transformative services to survivors of labor trafficking. |
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| OVC Fellowship to Analyze Human Trafficking Diversion Courts for Minors - Wendy Stickle | The Fellow will conduct a literature review to review what is currently known about human trafficking diversion courts for minors and a landscape analysis to identify the communities that have established these specialized courts/dockets. The Fellow will be expected to investigate their structure, practice, and partnerships, and conduct in-depth virtual and in-persons interviews. The Fellow will observe the courts’ implementation and collect quantitative and qualitative information on youth outcomes (as available). |
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| Minnesota Indian Woman’s Sexual Assault Center (MIWSAC) - Project Beacon TTA Project | MIWSAC’s efforts focus on increasing the capacity of the Project Beacon grantees to provide holistic services to American Indian and Alaska Native victims of human trafficking in urban areas by: facilitating peer support and consultations among grantees; providing customized on-site training for grantees and their partner organizations; offering grantees technical guidance on developing outreach and education materials and training curricula; and creating opportunities for grantees to engage in ongoing remote and in-person learning. |
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| National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges (NCJFCJ) - Field-Generated Strategies to Address the Criminalization of Minors | The Field Strategies TTA Project's goal is to support Purpose Area 1 Field Generated Strategies to Address the Criminalization of Minor Victims of Sex Trafficking Program sites to end the criminalization of minor victims of sex trafficking in their development, expansion, or strengthening of victim service programs to support victim-centered, trauma-informed, developmentally appropriate, evidence-based responses to minor victims of sex trafficking. Beneficiaries of this TTA will be communities across the country, as determined by OVC’s selection of project sites, and other communities observing their innovations. |
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| Youth Collaboratory - Pilot Program for Community Based Organizations in Underserved Communities to Build Capacity and Serve Adolescent and Youth Victims of Trafficking | The purpose of Youth Collaboratory’s national (service area) pilot program is to develop and build the capacity of community-based organizations (CBOs) in underserved communities to provide services to adolescent and youth human trafficking victims through the provision of mentorship and training and technical assistance (TTA). This project will prioritize rural and underserved communities—including Indigenous, undocumented, male, and labor trafficking survivors. Project activities include a national call to select CBOs for pilot participation and subawards, baseline and ongoing organizational capacity building assessments, development of individualized organizational capacity building plans, group training, one-on-one technical assistance, peer-to-peer learning, resource development and dissemination, annual subawardee gathering, national learning series, and ongoing monitoring. Youth Collaboratory’s partner and subrecipient, the Rural Opportunity Institute, will help build the capacity of rural communities to support people’s healing from generational trauma to achieve health, safety, connection, and self-determination. Youth Collaboratory will also partner with other national TTA providers and subject matter experts to share strategies and disseminate best practices, and its Girls Action Board and Youth Catalyst Team, who are lived experience experts, will consult on the content and provide TTA. |
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| National Network to End Domestic Violence - VAWA Confidentiality Provision | The purpose is to provide TTA for OVC’s FY 2024-2026 Human Trafficking Grant Program grantees and their subrecipients in the United States to better understand, implement, and navigate their confidentiality obligations under the VAWA confidentiality provision. |
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| OVC Fellowship: Identifying and Promoting Culturally Responsive, Strength-Based Approaches in the Anti-Trafficking Field - Irene Countryman-Roswurm | The fellow will implement the You Belong Project: Identifying and Promoting Culturally Responsive, Strength-Based Approaches in the Anti-Trafficking Field. The project's purpose is to assist the anti-trafficking field in identifying and promoting culturally responsive, strength-based service models and activities. |
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| OVC Fellowship: Identifying and Promoting Culturally Responsive Service Models and Activities in the Anti-Trafficking Field - Wade Arvizu | The fellow proposes a project aimed to address significant gaps in victim identification and services for underserved communities by identifying and promoting service models that center cultural practices and values in their approach to providing direct services. The project will highlight strength-based interventions that strengthen responses to labor trafficking, ensure access to support for male victims, and enhance access to services by promoting survivor choice. |
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Other U.S. Department of Justice-Funded Human Trafficking Training and Technical Assistance Providers
| Funding Office | Provider/Project | Project Description | Focus | Audience |
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| Office on Violence Against Women | Futures Without Violence – Building Collaborative Responses to Trafficked Victims of Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault | Focuses on collaborative approaches to addressing human trafficking in jurisdictions and communities across the United States and its territories. |
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| Office on Violence Against Women | The International Organization for Adolescents, Inc. – Building Capacity to Serve Youth Survivors of Sex Trafficking | Over the course of the project period, IOFA will provide webinars, create short training videos and social media reels, create resources and newsletters, and provide in-person and online specialized technical assistance. All deliverables will be youth-centered and survivor-informed and will specifically focus on outreach to youth that are part of traditionally underserved populations, including BIPOC, LGTBTQ+, immigrant youth, and youth with disabilities. |
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| Office on Violence Against Women | Minnesota Indian Women’s Sexual Assault Coalition – National Training and Technical Assistance Project on Sex Trafficking in Indian Country & Alaska | Provides TTA to specific audiences, including Tribal domestic and sexual violence programs and all agencies that may encounter survivors of sexual violence, domestic violence, and/or sex trafficking. |
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| Office of Community Oriented Policing Services | International Association of Chiefs of Police – Collaborative Reform Initiative Technical Assistance Center | Provides technical assistance resources on various topics, including human trafficking. Utilizes a “by the field, for the field” approach while delivering technical assistance using leading experts in a range of public safety, crime reduction, and community policing topics. |
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| Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention | Fox Valley Technical College – The National AMBER Alert Training and Technical Assistance Program | Provides training and technical assistance support to enhance the national AMBER Alert network and to improve law enforcement response to missing, endangered, and abducted children. |
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| Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention | Fox Valley Technical College – The Missing and Exploited Children Training and Technical Assistance Program | Seeks to build the capacity of state, Tribal, and local agencies, and to encourage the development and implementation of best practices related to the investigation and prosecution of cases of missing and exploited children. The program provides assistance to prosecutors, state and local law enforcement, child protection personnel, medical providers, and other child-serving professionals to strengthen multidisciplinary responses to cases of missing and exploited children and improve the prosecution of perpetrators. |
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| Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention | National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges | Through this program, the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges and its partners facilitate system improvements in juvenile and family court processes to provide better outcomes for children, youth, and families in child abuse, neglect, and related cases, including cases of children who are victims of commercial sexual exploitation and sex trafficking. |
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Past Human Trafficking Training and Technical Assistance Providers Projects
See below for resources and training materials developed with OVC funding.
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| International Rescue Committee - Framework: Tools to Combat Labor Trafficking | Framework offers engaging and user-friendly resources to equip the field with the tools necessary to identify and provide transformative services to survivors of labor trafficking. |
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| U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants, Inc. - Project Trauma Response to Uplift Survivors of Trafficking (TRUST) | Project TRUST offers a library of TTA resources about trauma-informed responses and services to human trafficking. |
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| American Bar Association (ABA) - Survivor Reentry Project | The Survivor Reentry Project offers national training and technical assistance on vacatur, expungement, sealing and other criminal record remedies. |
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| National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges (NCJFCJ) - Enhancing Juvenile and Family Court Responses to Human Trafficking Training and Technical Assistance | NCJFCJ, along with its primary project partner, the Center for the Human Rights of Children, supports grantees working with youth in contact with juvenile and family courts who are victims of human trafficking crimes or who are at risk for trafficking due to past or current crime victimization. This TTA addresses the need for more specialized training for judicial officers, attorneys, probation officers, social workers, survivor advocates and other stakeholders in courts. Open to OVC grantees only: contact NCJFCJ with questions. |
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| I.D.E.A. Analytics - Dynamic Approaches to Trafficking Through Analytical Solutions, Education, and Training (DATASET) | The DATASET TTA project will support field-generated requests from law enforcement agencies to strategically develop or enhance their anti-trafficking efforts through data. TTA delivered through this program will build evidence-based, data-driven approaches to identify sex and labor trafficking, develop investigative responses, educate staff and stakeholders, and assess progress on identifying and serving human trafficking victims. |
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| International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) - Law Enforcement- and Prosecution-Focused Training and Technical Assistance | IACP develops a range of multisector trainings (in-person, virtual, webinars, and more) and facilitates peer to peer learning opportunities to increase the organizational capacity of Enhanced Collaborative Model task forces to better identify victims, provide services, and successfully investigate and prosecute cases at all levels. |
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| National White Collar Crime Center (NW3C) - Traffick STOP (Signs to Observe and Prevent) | NW3C is developing a human trafficking and child exploitation identification and prevention program that trains law enforcement to deliver a curriculum to youth in high schools. Working in collaboration with Enhanced Collaborative Model task forces, these trainings occur in Enhanced Collaborative Model task force jurisdictions. OVC coordinates this TTA with the Departments of Education and Health and Human Services. |
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| International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) - Building Agency Capacity: A Toolkit for Human Trafficking | Under this project the IACP will collaborate with six law enforcement agency pilot sites to identify, develop, and build innovative TTA resources that address gaps in knowledge and training, strengthen programming, build capacity, solve problems, and model innovative approaches. |
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