Alternatives for girls (AFG) is a detroit-based non-profit that serves homeless, runaway, human-trafficked, and at-risk girls/women of color

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:

1. Enhanced rapid re-housing services, including short-term rental subsidies, housing navigation, and trauma-informed case management, for at least 15 sex and labor trafficking victims.
2. Voluntary support services and personal advocacy to facilitate connections to mainstream resources and promote self-sufficiency.
3. Community education on human trafficking for local stakeholders to increase awareness and address the comprehensive needs of victims.
4. Collaboration with federal, state, and local agencies, the Detroit Continuum of Care, and other anti-trafficking coalitions to share outcomes and implement best practices.
5. Efforts to promote racial equity and remove service barriers by involving trafficking victims in program design, implementation, and evaluation.

The award period is from October 1, 2023 to September 30, 2026.

Through the safe choices new choices housing stability services (scnc HSS), AFG funding to support the following: 1) enhanced rapid rehousing services for a minimum of 15 SEX and labor human trafficking victims, including short-term rental subsidies (6-24 months), housing navigation, landlord engagement, and trauma-informed, culturally responsive, and victim-centered case management focused on maintaining safe, stable housing; 2) provision of voluntary essential support services and personal advocacy, facilitating connections to mainstream resources and promoting self-sufficiency; 3) community education on human trafficking for stakeholders in the community and housing system, increasing awareness and addressing the comprehensive needs of victims; 4) collaboration with federal, state, and local agencies, the detroit continuum of care and other human trafficking coalitions, law enforcement, landlords/housing systems, and allied professionals to share outcomes and carry out best practices, and 5) promotion of racial equity and removal of service barriers through the involvement of human trafficking victims in program design, implementation, evaluation, and agency/community collaboratives.