Project Grant 2039584

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) grant, awarded under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), will support research to more effectively combat human trafficking. The $553,946 award to Northeastern University will develop novel analytical decision models to enhance collaboration among stakeholders, address the interdependencies between trafficking network interdiction and survivor services, and guide the optimal allocation of limited resources. The...

The National Institute of Justice (NIJ) awarded a $649,895 Project Grant to the National Opinion Research Center (NORC) to conduct a national, mixed-methods study on the intersection of human trafficking and drug trafficking. The study has three key objectives: 1) conduct a landscape scan to develop the current state of knowledge on this intersection, including emerging trends and data collection efforts; 2) administer a survey to Enhanced Collaborative Model (ECM) task forces and High Intensity...

The National Institute of Justice awarded a $799,859 Project Grant to RTI International to conduct a multi-method, multi-site program evaluation of three human trafficking service models funded through the California Office of Emergency Services Human Trafficking Victim Assistance (HTVA) Grant Program (CFDA 16.320 Services for Trafficking Victims). The evaluation will involve a process study to describe HTVA grantee program functioning, service models, service receipt, community partnerships,...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program provides $100,000.00 to the Regents of the University of Minnesota to develop a plan for building and sustaining the "Human-Centered Action Research to Disrupt Trafficking (HART)" research center. The center will bring together a diverse team of researchers, human trafficking survivor-leaders, and other stakeholders to create a national-level action...

This project grant from the Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs National Institute of Justice, under the Services for Trafficking Victims federal grant program (CFDA 16.320), provides $975,209 to Research Triangle Institute for research and resources related to labor trafficking victimization. The three-year award beginning in January 2022 will fund mapping of labor trafficking supply chains in federally prosecuted construction and hospitality industry cases, interviews with...

The National Institute of Justice (NIJ) awarded a $654,195 Cooperative Agreement to the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health to conduct a project titled "Evaluating Processes and Outcomes of Housing Models for Victims of Human Trafficking." The funding was provided under the Services for Trafficking Victims program (CFDA 16.320), which supports direct victim services, task forces, training, and research to improve outcomes for human trafficking survivors. The project aims to: 1)...

The National Institute of Justice (NIJ) awarded a $399,969 Project Grant to Research Triangle Institute (RTI International) to conduct a community-based participatory action research project. The goal is to improve the State of Minnesota's ability to identify victims of human trafficking with substance use challenges and provide them with trauma-informed and culturally responsive services. The project will collect data to inform solutions for: 1) improving data capacity to understand and monitor...

The Georgia Tech Research Corporation received a $33,329 Project Grant award from the Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs National Institute of Justice to advance visual analytics and computational science to combat human trafficking. The award period was from January 1, 2020 to February 28, 2022 under the National Institute of Justice Research, Evaluation, and Development Project Grants program (CFDA 16.560). The goal of this project was to foster the development of new knowledge...

This 24-month, $1,249,621 project grant awarded by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate under the Homeland Security, Research, Testing, Evaluation, and Demonstration of Technologies program (CFDA 97.108) is designed to provide in-depth analysis of the rapidly evolving domestic violent extremist threat landscape in the United States. The Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD), a woman-owned non-profit organization, will leverage novel computational social...

This $2.32 million cooperative agreement awarded by the Department of State Bureau of International Narcotics Law Enforcement will support Innovations For Poverty Action to establish an embedded evidence lab in Nigeria from October 1, 2022 to September 30, 2024. The evidence lab will equip the Nigerian government to develop and deliver more effective, evidence-based policies and programs to combat sex trafficking under the International Programs to Combat Human Trafficking program (CFDA 19.019)....