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On December 3, 2021, the White House released the National Action Plan to Combat Human Trafficking (Action Plan), advancing a comprehensive anti-trafficking agenda by strengthening prevention efforts, protecting individuals who have experienced trafficking through intervention and support, and holding traffickers accountable through prosecution. To effectively combat human trafficking, the Action Plan emphasizes the importance of collaboration as a core component of its framework and calls upon agencies across the U.S. Government to synergize anti-trafficking efforts at the national level. Multiple agencies and offices within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) will work with federal, state, tribal, and local partners; non-government organizations; and private sector stakeholders to strengthen prevention, protection, and prosecution efforts on human trafficking.
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.
This document was developed by fellows of the Human Trafficking Leadership Academy Class 1 organized through the National Human Trafficking Training and Technical Assistance Center and Coro Northern California. A team of allied professionals and survivor leaders worked together to respond to the following question: What is survivor-informed programming? How can Office on Trafficking in Persons grantees enhance their programming and services to support survivors of trafficking and/or those at risk using trauma-informed and survivor-informed practices?
The HTLA fellowship is funded by the Office on Trafficking in Persons and the Office on Women’s Health at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The recommendations and content of this document are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent the views of OTIP, OWH, or HHS.
The Grant Management Toolkit provides information to Office on Trafficking in Persons’ grantees and other organizations on how to create a culture and infrastructure that supports effective implementation and sustainability of anti-trafficking programs. The toolkit includes links to official resources on federal websites and supplemental, unofficial information from other sources.
For grantees and service providers: Learn how you can use your data to support fundraising and benefit your program in this video from The Center for Victim Research.
The Office on Trafficking in Persons (OTIP) is updating terms (PDF) used in official documents, correspondence, and other communications to align with terminology used in 2 CFR Part 200 and 45 CFR Part 75. These changes are part of a concerted effort encouraging consistency across all U.S. Department of Health and Human Services agencies, where applicable. While the overall process will be gradual, recipients can anticipate seeing new terms immediately.