2023 — 2028
Project Overview
Human trafficking is a significant public health problem that negatively affects the well-being of individuals, families, and communities. The Building Evidence for Trafficking Interventions and Response (BETIR) project will use multidisciplinary perspectives, including the active engagement of impacted communities, to guide rigorous research and evaluation, providing the Administration for Children and Families’ (ACF) Office of Planning, Research, and Evaluation (OPRE) and Office on Trafficking in Persons (OTIP) with information needed to inform the development of anti-trafficking strategies, policies, and programs to prevent and respond to human trafficking.
This project will include a variety of research and evaluation activities such as:
- Designing and conducting original studies that will inform policy and best practices for programs and strategies to prevent and respond to human trafficking;
- Identifying emerging policy and research questions or topics of special interest to ACF that can be addressed through research activities, such as literature reviews; convening and/or reviewing recommendations from relevant groups and individuals, and initiating work based on those recommendations; and identifying sources of policy and data and conducting summaries, assessments, or secondary statistical analyses to answer questions of relevance; and
- Preparing written products and other deliverables, such as syntheses of research evidence to inform policy and practice; methodological and analytic research documents to advance human trafficking research and evaluation; and translation of research findings and issues for policymakers and implementers of anti-trafficking programs.
Project Activities
To date, two evaluation topics have been selected for study: (1) a two-stage formative and short-term outcome evaluation of the Aspire: Child Trafficking Victim Assistance Demonstration Program and Trafficking Victims Assistance Program (TVAP), and (2) a second phase evaluation of the National Human Trafficking Hotline and other federally sponsored hotlines (the original evaluation of the National Human Trafficking Hotline can be found here).
This work is being conducted through a contract to RTI International.
Point(s) of contact: Mary Mueggenborg and Kelly Jedd McKenzie.