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
Sigh up for the TTAC Human Trafficking Listserv to receive the latest news and updates from OVC TTAC.
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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| 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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| 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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| 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 four 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges (NCJFCJ) – Field-Generated Strategies to Address the Criminalization of Minor Victims of Sex Trafficking Training and Technical Assistance |
NCJFCJ, along with its primary project partners the Association for Prosecuting Attorneys (APA) and the Gault Center, supports grantees working 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. Open to OVC grantees only: contact NCJFCJ with questions. |
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| Human Trafficking Capacity Building Center | The Center exists to help Tribal Nations and Tribal-serving organizations start, sustain, or grow their anti-trafficking work. The Center also maintains a resource library available to the public. |
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Other Federally-Funded Human Trafficking Training and Technical Assistance Providers
Learn about all federally funded training and technical assistance providers that are focused on human trafficking or have a significant anti-trafficking component.
The matrix offers information about each program, including the name of the funded organization, project title, project description, project website, funding office, and services provided. Some programs will change after Fiscal Year 2022.
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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