Demonstration Grants for Domestic Victims of Human Trafficking

The Domestic Victims of Human Trafficking (DVHT) Program is a comprehensive federal initiative administered by the Office on Trafficking in Persons (OTIP) to support the identification, assistance, and prevention of human trafficking among domestic populations within the United States. In Fiscal Year (FY) 2025, OTIP funded three priority areas under the DVHT Program model: Domestic Victims of Human Trafficking � Services and Outreach (DVHT-SO) Victims of Human Trafficking in Native Communities (VHT-NC) Human Trafficking Youth Prevention Education (HTYPE) Together, the DVHT program aim to strengthen community responses to human trafficking through direct services, outreach, and prevention education.

For DVHT Programs, which includes DVHT-SO and VHT-NC, eligible organizations include: state governments, tribes, units of local government, and non-profit, non-governmental victim service organizations. OTIP defines victim service organizations as those that by nature of their current operations serve victims of sexual assault, sexual violence, domestic violence, human trafficking, and youth homelessness. Victim service organizations may also include faith-based organizations, non-profit federally qualified health centers, and other non-profit health care facilities that serve or plan to serve victims of human trafficking. Individuals (including sole proprietorships) and foreign entities are not eligible. Institutions of higher education and for-profit organizations are not eligible. For the HTYPE Demonstration Program, in accordance with the authorizing statute, eligible applicants for funding will include local education agencies (LEAs). A LEA is a public board of education or other public authority legally constituted within a state for either administrative control or direction of, or to perform a service function for, public elementary schools or secondary schools in a city, county, township, school district, or other political subdivision of a state, or for a combination of school districts or counties that is recognized in a state as an administrative agency for its...

Information on evaluation criteria for awarding funds can be found in the NOFO.

Fiscal year 2016: 3,600,000 $3,423,912 Fiscal year 2017: $3,423,912 Fiscal year 2018: $3,423,912 Fiscal year 2019: $3,198,525 Fiscal year 2025: Awards support the work of local organizations supporting domestic survivors of human trafficking in states such as?Oregon, California, New Jersey, Washington State, Alaska, Connecticut, Michigan, Minnesota, North Carolina, and Texas. Funding supports organizations to build, expand, and sustain organizational and community capacity to deliver services, assistance, and referrals to adults and minors. These funds will also support outreach efforts. Recipients join a national network of organizations funded by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services responding to human trafficking, contributing to a growing base of information on approaches, strategies, and service delivery models to improve services for survivors.