Training | Human Trafficking | Office for Victims of Crime

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

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 Notice of Funding Opportunity 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.

Other U.S. Department of Justice-Funded Human Trafficking Training and Technical Assistance Providers

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Funding Office	Provider/Project	Project Description	Focus	Audience
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.		Law Enforcement (state, territorial, campus, and Tribal agencies)
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.	Sex Trafficking Youth	Law Enforcement
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.	Sex Trafficking Youth	Prosecutors Law Enforcement (state and local agencies) Child Protection Personnel Medical Providers Other Child-Serving Professionals
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.	Sex Trafficking Youth	Court Personnel
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.	Collaboration	Social Services Providers Law Enforcement
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.	Sex Trafficking	Social Services Providers

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