OpportunityTitle: BJA FY 15 Anti-Human Trafficking National Training and Technical Assistance Program for Law Enforcement Task Forces
AdditionalInformationOnEligibility: Eligible applicants are limited to for-profit organizations, nonprofit organizations (including tribal nonprofit or for-profit organizations), faith-based and community organizations, institutions of higher education (including tribal institutions of higher education), and consortiums with demonstrated experience providing national and local-level training and technical assistance to law enforcement agencies and prosecutors in the areas of human trafficking task force development, implementation, and operation. Demonstrated experience in delivering anti- human trafficking training to law enforcement agencies and their identified partners is required. For-profit organizations must agree to waive any profit or fees for services.BJA welcomes applications that involve two or more entities; however, one eligible entity must be the applicant and the others must be proposed as sub-recipients. The applicant must be the entity with primary responsibility for administering the funding and managing the project. Only one application per lead applicant will be considered; however, sub-recipients may be part of multiple proposals.
Description: The Anti-Human Trafficking National Training and Technical Assistance Program for Law Enforcement Task Forces, administered by BJA, is designed to provide national support and improve the capacity of state, local, and tribal criminal justice systems to increase their capacity to create and effectively operate enhanced collaborative model (ECM) human trafficking task forces, formed to investigate and prosecute the crime of human trafficking, as defined by the Trafficking Victims Protection Act (TVPA) of 2000. BJA has provided anti-human trafficking training to law enforcement since 2005; state prosecutors and judges since 2011; and tribal entities since 2013. The statutory authority for this program is 22 U.S.C. &#167; 7105(b)(2).This program is designed to provide training and technical assistance (TTA) resources that are critical to communities&#8217; efforts to address all forms of human trafficking, through a victim- centered, enhanced collaborative approach. ECM task forces are required to be collaborative, working partnerships between local, state, and/or federal law enforcement agencies, victim service providers and other key stakeholders for the purpose of identifying victims of all forms of human trafficking, conducting proactive investigations, and effectively prosecuting the traffickers, while rescuing the victims and providing needed services.The goal of the Anti-Human Trafficking Training and Technical Assistance for Law Enforcement Task Forces Program is to provide assistance to state and local law enforcement, criminal justice professionals (e.g., academic, adjudication, judicial, etc.), and communities to improve the level of knowledge, communication, collaboration, and tactics involved in addressing human trafficking in communities throughout the nation. The program combines the leadership of DOJ and the expertise of nationally recognized criminal justice practitioners and action research experts to deliver a wide variety of TTA nationwide. Programs funded under this solicitation are intended to have a national impact.This grant announcement specifically requests applications for a nationwide TTA assistance provider; it does not solicit applications from individual jurisdictions to establish state and local anti-human trafficking task forces or training projects.
GrantorContactEmailDescription: Technical Assistance
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