U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs
Services for Trafficking Victims
Key facts
- Open now
- 3 grants
- Type of help
- Project grant, direct payment for a set purpose
- Typical award
- OJP anticipates awarding grants of up to $925,000 (depending on the program) for 3 years to support enhanced services to trafficking victims, training and technical assistance, and research and evaluation.
Open now
- OVC FY 2026 Improving Outcomes for Child and Youth Victims of Human Trafficking · Due Oct 14, 2026 · 3 days left
- OVC FY 2026 Enhanced Collaborative Model (ECM) Task Force to Combat Human Trafficking · Due Oct 14, 2026 · 3 days left
- OVC FY 2026 Specialized Human Trafficking Assistance: Task Forces and Legal Services · Due Dec 1, 2026 · 51 days left
What it pays for
Goal: Improve identification of and support for victims of human trafficking.
Develop, expand, and improve the quality and availability of services for victims of human trafficking.
Expand services and programs, provide response training, build field capacity to provide services, and increase task force engagement to improve referrals, investigations, and prosecutions.
Increase the types of services and programs available to serve various types of human trafficking victims; Train individuals to respond to human trafficking; Develop protocols and procedures to address sex and labor trafficking; Enhance the capacity of the field to provide quality victim services; and Increase multidisciplinary partners engaged in task force activities to ensure that trafficking victims are identified and referred for appropriate services, and that these cases are investigated and prosecuted.
How applications are judged
In each year's official notice: OVC FY 2026 Improving Outcomes for Child and Youth Victims of Human Trafficking
Match
None required (federal program listing).
Groups like yours that won this
Proof that a church or faith-based group can apply: these Tennessee groups won it. Ask one of them how they did it.
- Rest Stop Ministries, Inc. · Lebanon, Wilson County · fiscal year 2020 · $637K · who else funds them
Who in Tennessee has won this program
9 awards to Tennessee groups since 2019. Largest shown:
| Past winner | Where | Amount | Fiscal year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tennessee Department of Finance and Administration | Nashville, Davidson County | $1M | 2025 |
| Tennessee Bureau of Investigation | Nashville, Davidson County | $1M | 2025 |
| Community Coalition Against Human Trafficking | Knoxville, Blount County | $950K | 2024 |
| Tennessee Department of Finance and Administration | Nashville, Davidson County | $947K | 2023 |
| Tennessee Bureau of Investigation | Nashville, Davidson County | $800K | 2020 |
| Rest Stop Ministries, Inc. | Lebanon, Wilson County | $637K | 2020 |
| Hope for Justice, Inc. | Knoxville, Knox County | $440K | 2024 |
| State of Tennessee | Nashville | $249K spent that year | 2025 |
| Community Coalition Against Human Trafficking | Knoxville, Knox County | $157K spent that year | 2024 |
Source: USAspending.gov, Federal Audit Clearinghouse.
Tennessee groups that got this money through Tennessee Department of Finance and Administration
This federal money also reaches local groups as pass-through grants. In Tennessee, Tennessee Department of Finance and Administration passes it on: watch that agency for applications, not the federal agency. 9 pass-through grants on file. Largest shown:
| Past winner | Where | Through | Amount | Fiscal year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Community Coalition Against Human Trafficking | Knoxville | Tennessee Department of Finance and Administration | $450K | 2025 |
| Thistle Farms, Inc. | Nashville, Davidson County | Tennessee Department of Finance and Administration | $450K | 2025 |
| Ancoratn | Goodlettsville, Davidson County | Tennessee Department of Finance and Administration | $432K | 2025 |
| Memphis Leadership Foundation Inc | Memphis, Shelby County | Tennessee Department of Finance and Administration | $300K | 2023 |
| Freed Life Inc | Memphis, Shelby County | Tennessee Department of Finance and Administration | $299K | 2024 |
| Community Coalition Against Human Trafficking | Knoxville | Tennessee Department of Finance and Administration | $289K | 2025 |
| Freed Life Inc | Memphis, Shelby County | Tennessee Department of Finance and Administration | $195K | 2026 |
| Freed Life Inc | Memphis, Shelby County | Tennessee Department of Finance and Administration | $195K | 2025 |
| Community Coalition Against Human Trafficking | Knoxville, Knox County | Tennessee Department of Finance and Administration | $68K spent that year | 2024 |
Source: USAspending.gov pass-through reports (the first recipient reports each one of $30,000 or more).