Block Grant 2020VTBX0104

The Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs awarded a $965,096 Project Grant to Alternatives For Girls, a Detroit-based non-profit organization, under the Services for Trafficking Victims program (CFDA 16.320). This funding supports the organization's Safe Choices New Choices Housing Stability Services (SCNC HSS) initiative to provide: Enhanced rapid re-housing services, including short-term rental subsidies, housing navigation, and trauma-informed case management, for at least 15 sex...

The Alternatives for Girls will receive $452,025 under a three-year Project Grant from the Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs Victims of Crime to deliver services for victims of human trafficking through the Services for Trafficking Victims program (CFDA 16.320). AFG will provide trauma-informed, culturally specific services to underserved female-identifying Black victims of human trafficking in Detroit, Hamtramck, and Highland Park, Michigan. Key services include 24/7 crisis...

The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (MDHHS), Division of Victim Services, was awarded a $2,000,000 Project Grant from the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) Office for Victims of Crime (OVC) Improving Outcomes for Child and Youth Victims of Trafficking Program (CFDA 16.834). The purpose of this 3-year initiative is to improve the response to child and youth victims of both sex and labor trafficking throughout Michigan, with a focus on Native children/youth and labor trafficking...

The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) Office of Justice Programs, Office for Victims of Crime (OVC) awarded a $950,000 Project Grant through the Services for Trafficking Victims program (CFDA 16.320) to the Common Ground Victim Assistance Program. This 3-year grant, awarded on October 1, 2024, will fund the Multi-County Comprehensive Services for Human Trafficking Victims Project. The project aims to sustain, expand, and strengthen victim services for adult and youth human trafficking survivors...

Alternatives For Girls (AFG) will use a $500,000 project grant award from the Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs Victims of Crime under the Preventing Trafficking of Girls federal grant program (CFDA 16.035) to deliver early intervention and prevention services for 135 at-risk and victimized girls ages 14-18 in Detroit, Michigan over three years from October 1, 2022 to September 30, 2025. AFG will enhance its evidence-based trauma-informed curriculum with a new five-hour human...

The YWCA of Kalamazoo, Michigan will provide comprehensive services for survivors of human trafficking through a $800,000 Project Grant from the Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs Victims of Crime under the Services for Trafficking Victims program (CFDA 16.320). Over a three year period ending September 2025, YWCA will establish initiatives to address unmet employment and economic opportunity needs. Services will include financial services such as credit repair, debt remediation...

The East Bay Asian Youth Center (EBAYC) and Survivors Healing, Advising, and Dedicated to Empowerment (SHADE) will implement the "Developing Capacity to Serve Human Trafficking Victims" project in Oakland, California. This $440,000 Project Grant, awarded by the U.S. Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs, Office for Victims of Crime (CFDA 16.320 - Services for Trafficking Victims), aims to bolster the safety, independence, self-sufficiency, and overall well-being of human...

The U.S. Department of Justice, Office for Victims of Crime (OVC) has awarded a $600,000 Cooperative Agreement under the Services for Trafficking Victims program (CFDA 16.320) to Safe Haven Ministries, Inc. The award will fund the implementation of the West Michigan Human Trafficking Task Force, which will serve Kent County, Michigan and the surrounding region. Through this initiative, Safe Haven Ministries will develop, expand, and strengthen the local infrastructure for a multidisciplinary...

The YWCA of Kalamazoo, Michigan will provide rapid rehousing and housing navigation services for survivors of human trafficking through a $800,000 Project Grant award from the Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs Victims of Crime. Funded under the Services for Victims of Trafficking program (CFDA 16.320), the YWCA will deliver several housing options from October 1, 2022 to September 30, 2025 to meet the immediate safety and affordable permanent housing needs of human trafficking...

The Global Alliance Solutions Foundation (GASF) was awarded a $496,199 Project Grant from the Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs Victims of Crime under the Services for Trafficking Victims federal grant program (CFDA 16.320). GASF will use the funding to develop its capacity to serve victims and survivors of severe human trafficking in Wayne, Oakland, Macomb, and Washtenaw counties of Michigan. Services provided will include legal advocacy, crisis intervention, case management,...