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These documents provide OTIP funding recipients with information on how to submit a budget revision request. 

This toolkit for National Human Trafficking Prevention Month 2024 focuses on activating partnerships to prevent and respond to human trafficking. The toolkit includes sample social media, graphics, newsletter and website copy, and suggested resources.

A proclamation is an official announcement signed by a government official, such as a mayor or governor, to recognize an initiative or observance for the purpose of raising awareness or celebrating a significant milestone.

Once a youth receives a Child Eligibility Letter it can be used to apply for benefits and services to the same extent as a refugee. This resource offers information on benefit-issuing agencies by state.

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)

View Webinar

Recording of a training on how to navigate the Anti-Trafficking Information Management System’s (ATIMS) Grant Performance Module for external users. ATIMS will allow grant recipients and their subrecipients to track client information and submit performance reports to reduce the burden of data collection.

Watch the training on YouTube. 

The Justice for Victims of Trafficking Act of 2015 established the U.S. Advisory Council on Human Trafficking (“the Council”) as a formal platform for individuals with lived experience to provide advice and recommendations to the Senior Policy Operating Group and the President’s Interagency Task Force to Monitor and Combat Trafficking (PITF). As a member of these coordinating bodies, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) implements the Council’s agency-specific recommendations and those for PITF agencies at large. This Information Memorandum summarizes the Council’s past recommendations and overviews implementation efforts by the HHS Administration for Children and Families (ACF). The status of each recommendation relating to ACF is available in the Appendix.

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)

In December 2021, the White House released the National Action Plan to Combat Human Trafficking (“National Action Plan”), which calls on agencies to “strengthen efforts to identify, prevent, and address human trafficking in product supply chains and ventures.” The National Action Plan’s emphasis on supply chains reflects lessons learned from COVID-19, echoing the National Strategy for a Resilient Public Health Supply Chain  (PDF) (“National Strategy”), published by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services in July 2021. Among other objectives, the National Strategy aims to “ensure equitable labor conditions by promoting best practices and U.S. adherence to child labor and forced labor laws and regulations” in health supply chains. 

The goal of this information memorandum is for all stakeholders in the healthcare and anti-trafficking fields to better understand how the federal government has enforced forced labor laws through criminal prosecution, how health professionals who have experienced trafficking have used civil litigation to seek justice, and how federal courts have handled cases involving forced labor in healthcare settings.

These images produced through the HHS Look Beneath the Surface campaign can be used in human trafficking public awareness and outreach material. The images can be customized for your community by including your own logo, using your own images, or selecting an alternate photo from our free library of images.