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Learn what to do if you or someone you know has received an Interim Assistance or Eligibility Letter from HHS.

This card is designed to fit in a wallet and includes a number of hotlines that may be broadly applicable to multiple youth audiences. Available in English and Spanish.

This card is designed to fit in a wallet and includes a number of hotlines that may be broadly applicable to multiple adult audiences.

Are you interested in applying for funding from the Office on Trafficking in Persons (OTIP)? OTIP’s National Human Trafficking Training and Technical Assistance Center (NHTTAC) will host a one-hour webinar on applying for OTIP grant funding. The webinar will highlight general guidance, tips, and lessons learned from past OTIP funding opportunities. Webinar participants will learn:

• The application process and eligibility requirements for OTIP grants.
• What to consider when applying and whether an applicant is a good fit for an OTIP grant.
• How to avoid common mistakes and apply lessons learned from past grant applications.
• General guidelines and best practices for submitting a complete grant application.

This webinar will include Sophia Papadimos (NHTTAC Consultant) and Flavia Keenan (Victim Assistance Program Specialist, OTIP) as speakers.

Webinar Transcript (TXT)

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The Toolkit for Building Survivor-Informed Organizations is a collection of new and existing resources that builds organizational capacity to meaningfully collaborate with and support staff, volunteers, and consultants with lived experience in human trafficking. The toolkit is a resource for anti-trafficking organizations, coalitions, task forces, volunteer programs, and other community and faith-based organizations that want to improve collaboration with those impacted by human trafficking. This toolkit provides guidance, tools, and resources that support professionally engaging people with lived experience when developing, delivering, and evaluating programs and policies. The 2023 update to this previously published toolkit includes three new chapters with recommendations and resources on (1) survivor leadership engagement; (2) diversity, equity, and inclusion; and (3) wellness.

Survivor-Informed Toolkit  (PDF)

This national briefing call discussed new resources available from the Administration for Children and Families to assist child welfare, states, schools, nonprofit organizations, and practitioners in responding to concerns of human trafficking among children and youth, including those connected to the child welfare system.

The Office on Trafficking in Persons (OTIP) Annual Report highlights fiscal year 2021 accomplishments. The report is structured in two main sections outlining OTIP's efforts to prevent and protect individuals who have experienced human trafficking, including providing access to crucial benefits and services, delivering training and technical assistance to build the capacity of frontline professionals to address human trafficking concerns in their workplace, investing in public awareness and outreach initiatives to increase awareness, and collaborating with diverse partners to strengthen an integrated response to human trafficking, among others. The report notes how OTIP remained flexible, adaptive, and responsive to challenges brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic, which exacerbated many underlying social and economic conditions that put individuals at risk for human trafficking. Data is integrated throughout the report to demonstrate how OTIP and grant recipients found creative ways to respond to increased needs. 

Creating a safe environment and building rapport with students who have experienced trafficking are foundational elements of trauma-informed care. This handout includes several practical ways to enhance feelings of safety and security when screening a student for trafficking.

Trafficking is usually not an individual’s first experience with trauma. This fact sheet describes adverse childhood experiences, or ACEs, and their relationship to human trafficking.

Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs)  (PDF)

Individuals who have increased risk factors for trafficking or have experienced trafficking are often not recognized for various reasons. This fact sheet describes individual- and provider-related barriers to identification.

Barriers That Prevent Identification  (PDF)