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Human Trafficking

Training and Technical Assistance

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:

Sign up for the TTAC Human Trafficking Listserv to receive the latest news and updates from OVC TTAC.

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(link is external).
 

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.
 

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