Opportunity Information: Apply for HHS 2020 ACF IOAS OTIP TV 1804
The Domestic Victims of Human Trafficking Services and Outreach (DVHT-SO) Program is a discretionary federal funding opportunity from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Administration for Children and Families (ACF), Office on Trafficking in Persons (OTIP). It is designed to strengthen communities ability to identify and support domestic victims of severe forms of human trafficking, as defined by the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000. The program prioritizes building, expanding, and sustaining local and organizational capacity so that victims can access direct services, practical assistance, and referrals that help them move toward safety and stability.
Funding is awarded through a cooperative agreement, meaning recipients should expect active involvement and collaboration with the federal program office rather than a purely hands-off grant relationship. The funding activity area is categorized under income security and social services (CFDA 93.327). Eligible applicants include state, county, and city or township governments; federally recognized tribal governments; other tribal organizations; and nonprofit organizations, including both 501(c)(3) nonprofits and nonprofits without 501(c)(3) status (as long as they are not institutions of higher education).
At the core of DVHT-SO are three required program components. First, recipients must provide comprehensive case management for domestic victims of human trafficking. This typically involves coordinated, survivor-centered support that can include safety planning, needs assessments, service navigation, and ongoing follow-up so survivors can access essentials like housing, healthcare, mental health services, legal assistance, transportation, benefits support, education, and employment resources. Second, recipients must carry out outreach to improve the identification of both sex trafficking and labor trafficking victims, with the aim of ensuring that victims are recognized earlier and connected to appropriate help. Third, recipients must deliver training for service providers and community partners so that professionals across the local response network can better recognize trafficking indicators, respond in a trauma-informed way, and make effective referrals.
DVHT-SO is explicitly guided by a whole-family approach. This means the program does not focus only on the individual victim, but also intentionally addresses services and opportunities for the victims immediate family members who live in the same household. In practice, this encourages applicants to design programming that considers the realities of family safety, child and dependent needs, household stability, and the ways trafficking can affect an entire family unit, including access to supportive services that help family members remain safe and stable while the victim receives assistance.
OTIP encourages strong community partnerships, meaningful survivor engagement, and staffing strategies that reflect the communities being served. In other words, applicants are expected to coordinate with local stakeholders such as victim service organizations, culturally specific providers, healthcare entities, law enforcement, prosecutors, workforce agencies, schools, faith-based groups, and other community organizations as appropriate, while also integrating survivor-informed practices into program planning and delivery. The emphasis on hiring qualified professionals who reflect the served communities signals an interest in culturally responsive and linguistically appropriate services, and in reducing barriers that can prevent victims from seeking or continuing support.
The program includes a 12-month project implementation period. This start-up phase is intended to give recipients structured time to build out the project, including forming optional partnerships, onboarding and training new staff, developing or formalizing victim service protocols, and creating a sustainability plan for continuing services beyond the federal award period. This implementation window reflects the reality that effective trafficking response systems often require deliberate coordination, shared protocols, and relationship-building before they can operate at full capacity.
Financially, the opportunity listed an award ceiling of $360,000 and anticipated making approximately 9 awards. A key requirement is a statutorily mandated 25 percent non-federal match, which can be provided as cash or in-kind contributions. Applicants must be prepared to document and track match resources in line with federal grant rules, and to design a budget that realistically supports direct services, outreach, training, staffing, and partnership coordination while also meeting the match obligation.
The opportunity was originally posted April 6, 2020, with an original closing date of June 24, 2020, and applications were required to be submitted electronically by 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time on the due date. The funding opportunity number is HHS-2020-ACF-IOAS-OTIP-TV-1804, and the program title is Domestic Victims of Human Trafficking Services and Outreach (DVHT-SO) Program.Apply for HHS 2020 ACF IOAS OTIP TV 1804
- The Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families-IOAS-OTIP in the income security and social services sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Domestic Victims of Human Trafficking Services and Outreach (DVHT-SO) Program" and is now available to receive applicants.
- Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 93.327.
- This funding opportunity was created on Apr 06, 2020.
- Applicants must submit their applications by Jun 24, 2020 Electronically submitted applications must be submitted no later than 1159 p.m., ET, on the listed application due date.. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
- Each selected applicant is eligible to receive up to $360,000.00 in funding.
- The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 9 candidate(s).
- Eligible applicants include: State governments, County governments, City or township governments, Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized), Native American tribal organizations (other than Federally recognized tribal governments), Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education, Nonprofits that do not have a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education.
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