O-OVC-2022-171244-OVC FY22 PROJ BEACON-V5_SI-171244.pdf

OMB No. 1121-0329 Approval Expires 12/31/2023

U.S. Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs Office for Victims of Crime

OVC FY 2022 Project Beacon: Increasing Access to Services for Urban American Indian and Alaska Native Victims of Human Trafficking Program Assistance Listing Number # 16.841

Grants.gov Opportunity Number: O-OVC-2022-171244

Solicitation Release Date: April 05, 2022 2:00 PM

Version: 5

Grants.gov Deadline: May 31, 2022 11:59 PM

Application JustGrants Deadline: June 06, 2022 8:59 PM

Overview The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), Office of Justice Programs (OJP), Office for Victims of Crime (OVC) seeks applications for funding for the FY 2022 Project Beacon: Increasing Access to Services for Urban American Indian and Alaska Native Victims of Human Trafficking Program. This program furthers the DOJ’s mission by increasing access to services for victims of crime and addressing inequities in access.

This solicitation incorporates the OJP Grant Application Resource Guide by reference. The OJP Grant Application Resource Guide provides guidance to applicants to prepare and submit applications to OJP for funding. If this solicitation expressly modifies any provision in the OJP Grant Application Resource Guide, the applicant is to follow the guidelines in this solicitation as to that provision.

This solicitation expressly modifies the OJP Grant Application Resource Guide by not incorporating the “Disclosure of Process Related to Executive Compensation” provisions in the “Application Attachments” section.

Solicitation Categories

Competition ID Category * Number of Awards

Dollar Amount for Award

Performance Start Date

Performance Duration (Months)

C-OVC-2022-00005-PROD Purpose Area 1: Direct Services 8 $475,000.00 10/1/22 12:00

AM 36

C-OVC-2022-00006-PROD Purpose Area 2: Training and Technical Assistance 1 $550,000.00 10/1/22 12:00

AM 36

Eligible Applicants:

Other

Other

Purpose Area 1: Limited to nonprofit, nongovernmental organizations (including tribal nonprofit

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Purpose Area 2: Limited to states, federally recognized Indian tribal governments, as determined by the Secretary of the Interior, units of local government, nonprofit and for-profit organizations (including tribal nonprofit and for-profit organizations), national organizations, and institutions of higher education (including tribal institutions of higher education).

For purposes of this solicitation, “state” means any state of the United States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands.

OVC may elect to fund applications submitted under this FY 2022 solicitation in future fiscal years, dependent on, among other considerations, the merit of the applications and on the availability of appropriations.

Contact Information

For technical assistance with submitting the Application for Federal Assistance standard form (SF)-424 and a Disclosure of Lobbying Activities form (SF-LLL) in Grants.gov, contact the Grants.gov Customer Support Hotline at 800-518-4726, 606-545-5035, Grants.gov Customer Support, or support@grants.gov. The Grants.gov Support Hotline operates 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, except on federal holidays.

For technical assistance with submitting the full application in DOJ's Justice Grants System (JustGrants), contact the JustGrants Service Desk at 833-872-5175 or JustGrants.Support@usdoj.gov. The JustGrants Service Desk operates 5 a.m. to 9 p.m. eastern time Monday-Friday and 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, Sunday, and Federal holidays.

For assistance with any other requirements of this solicitation, contact the OJP Response Center by telephone at 800-851-3420 or TTY: 301-240-6310 (hearing impaired only), or by email at grants@ncjrs.gov. The OJP Response Center hours of operation are 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m., eastern time Monday–Friday, and 10:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. on the solicitation closing date.

Submission Information Applications will be submitted to DOJ in two steps:

Step 1: The applicant must submit by the Grants.gov deadline the required Application for Federal Assistance standard form (SF)-424 and a Disclosure of Lobbying Activities (SF-LLL) form when they register in Grants.gov at https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/register.html. To register in Grants.gov, the applicant will need to ensure that its System for Award Management (SAM) registration is current.

Step 2: The applicant must then submit the full application, including attachments, in JustGrants at JustGrants.usdoj.gov. To be considered timely, the full application must be submitted in JustGrants by the JustGrants application deadline. OJP encourages applicants to review the “How to Apply” section in the OJP Grant Application Resource Guide and the JustGrants website for more information, resources, and training.

Pre-Application Webinar

OVC will conduct one pre-application webinar during which OVC staff will review the solicitation requirements and conduct a question and answer session with interested potential applicants. Participation is optional. The preapplication webinar will be held on April 20, 2022 at 1pm, EDT, further details and registration information will be available at https://ovc.ojp.gov/funding/funding-webinars.

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Contents

Contact Information 2 Program Description 6

Overview 6 Statutory Authority 6 Specific Information 6 Goals, Objectives, Deliverables, and Timeline 10 Evidence-Based Programs or Practices 13 Information Regarding Potential Evaluation of Programs and Activities 13

Federal Award Information 13 Awards, Amounts and Durations 13 Continuation Funding Intent 13 Availability of Funds 13 Types of Awards 14 Financial Management and System of Internal Controls 14 Budget Information 14 Cost Sharing or Matching Requirement 14 Pre-agreement Costs (also known as Pre-award Costs) 14 Limitation on Use of Award Funds for Employee Compensation: Waiver 15 Prior Approval, Planning, and Reporting of Conference/Meeting/Training Costs 15 Costs Associated with Language Assistance (if applicable) 15

Eligibility Information 15 Application and Submission Information 15

Information to Complete the Application for Federal Assistance (SF-424) 15 Standard Applicant Information (JustGrants 424 and General Agency Information) 16 Proposal Abstract 16 Proposal Narrative 16 Goals, Objectives, Deliverables, and Timeline 19 Budget and Associated Documentation 19 Budget Worksheet and Budget Narrative (attachment) 19 Indirect Cost Rate Agreement (if applicable) 19 Employee Compensation Waiver 19 Financial Management Questionnaire (including applicant disclosure of high-risk status) 19 Additional Application Components 19 Research and Evaluation Independence and Integrity Statement 20 Disclosures and Assurances 20 Disclosure of Lobbying Activities 20 DOJ Certified Standard Assurances 20 Applicant Disclosure of Duplication in Cost Items 20 DOJ Certifications Regarding Lobbying; Debarment, Suspension and Other Responsibility Matters; and Drug-Free Workplace Requirements 20 How to Apply 20 Submission Dates and Time 20

Application Review Information 21 Review Criteria 21 Review Process 22

Federal Award Administration Information 22 Federal Award Notices 22

Administrative, National Policy, and Other Legal Requirements 23 Information Technology (IT) Security Clauses 23 General Information about Post-Federal Award Reporting Requirements 23

Federal Awarding Agency Contact(s) 23 Other Information 23

Freedom of Information and Privacy Act (5 U.S.C. 552 and 5 U.S.C. 552a) 23 Provide Feedback to OJP 23 Performance Measures 23 Application Checklist 23 Endnotes 26

Program Description

Overview

The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), Office of Justice Programs (OJP), Office for Victims of Crime (OVC) seeks applications for funding for the FY 2022 Project Beacon: Increasing Access to Services for Urban American Indian and Alaska Native Victims of Human Trafficking Program. This program furthers the DOJ’s mission by increasing access to services for victims of crime and addressing inequities in access.

This solicitation incorporates the OJP Grant Application Resource Guide by reference. The OJP Grant Application Resource Guide provides guidance to applicants to prepare and submit applications to OJP for funding. If this solicitation expressly modifies any provision in the OJP Grant Application Resource Guide, the applicant is to follow the guidelines in this solicitation as to that provision.

This solicitation expressly modifies the OJP Grant Application Resource Guide by not incorporating the “Disclosure of Process Related to Executive Compensation” provisions in the “Application Attachments” section.

Statutory Authority

Any awards under this solicitation will be made under statutory authority provided by the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2022.

Specific Information

Recent research on the incidence of sex trafficking among American Indian and Alaska Native populations has focused on the plight of AI/AN women and girls who are involved in sex trafficking in urban areas.[i] It is well documented that AI/AN women suffer crimes of violence against women at disproportionately higher rates than women of other racial groups.[ii] AI/AN women and girls are also more likely to have experienced high rates of poverty, involvement in the foster care system, prior sexual victimization (e.g., childhood sexual abuse, sexual assault as an adolescent or young adult), prior involvement in the juvenile or adult criminal justice systems, and substance use problems, all of which may put them at greater risk of being trafficked across their lifespan.[iii] AI/AN victims of sex trafficking may also be overrepresented as victims in human trafficking cases compared to their proportion of the general population in urban areas. For example, though only 2 percent of the population of Minneapolis, Minnesota, is AI/AN, the Minneapolis police department reported that there were AI/AN victims in more than 80 percent of the cases of human trafficking that they investigated between 2014 and 2016, and more than 85 percent of the victims in their human trafficking cases identified as AI/AN.[iv] Recent evidence also suggests that children and youth who have been trafficked before age 18 may be at greater risk for being victimized repeatedly (through trafficking and other sexual violence) in adulthood.[v]

Forced labor is a part of the history of treatment of AI/AN people in the Americas. It is estimated that between 2.5 to 5 million Native Americans were enslaved between 1492 and the start of the 20th century.[vi] While some Native people were trafficked by other Native Americans, European colonists in the Carolinas, for example, enslaved Native people and profited from their forced labor, while other colonists captured Native Americans and trafficked them to the Caribbean.[vii] Settlers in California relied on the forced labor of Indigenous people into the 19th century, and with the passage of the Indian Act of 1850, the state legislature authorized local authorities to arrest Native people for “vagrancy,” and permitted their labor to be sold at auction for purposes of indentured servitude. The same law also allowed non-Native people to petition a justice of the peace to obtain the labor of Native children as indentured servants.[viii] While there is not much research available about the impact of labor trafficking on contemporary AI/AN populations, there is little reason to doubt that AI/AN people are likely to be victims of modern-day labor trafficking.

Labor trafficking, including debt bondage, forced labor, and involuntary child labor, can be found in a variety of industries including domestic work and janitorial services, agricultural and manufacturing jobs, food services, and other service-related industries. Labor trafficking can also take the form of forcing trafficked persons to beg or panhandle, or engage in illicit activities such as drug dealing. It can also intersect with sex trafficking.[ix] OVC is particularly interested in having recipients of FY 2022 Project Beacon grant awards assist in promoting awareness of labor trafficking among urban AI/AN communities and tribes, and in identifying and providing

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OVC launched Project Beacon in FY 2016. In its inaugural year, the program provided funding to three organizations with expertise in meeting the health, safety, and welfare needs of urban Native communities to develop the capacity of these organizations to provide direct services to urban AI/AN victims of sex trafficking. In FY 2019, OVC expanded the program to include five direct services grantees and a comprehensive training and technical assistance (TTA) provider. While victims of labor trafficking have always been eligible for services under Project Beacon, OVC has changed the name of the program for FY 2022 to emphasize the need for Project Beacon grantees to be more proactive in raising awareness about labor trafficking and in helping to identify and serve victims of labor trafficking. This fiscal year, OVC will again make awards under two program purpose areas:

Program Purpose Area 1: Direct Services Eligible applicants may apply to this purpose area to request funding to develop or enhance their organizational capacity to provide services to urban AI/AN victims of human trafficking; develop and sustain collaborative partnerships; conduct community outreach and awareness activities; and provide training to other stakeholders on how to meet the needs of urban AI/AN victims of human trafficking. Applicants for this purpose area must demonstrate that they will provide services to the target population of AI/AN victims of human trafficking in an urban community.

Program Purpose Area 2: Training and Technical Assistance Eligible applicants may request funding to provide capacity-building training and technical assistance (TTA) to successful Purpose Area 1 grantees.

Comprehensive Services Model Purpose Area 1 applicants are not expected to have the capacity to fulfill all of the needs of AI/AN victims of human trafficking. Rather, OVC will provide recipients of Purpose Area 1 grant awards with the training and technical assistance necessary to develop a plan to meet the comprehensive needs of the victims they will serve through a coordinated, community-wide response that relies on collaborative partnerships and cross-referrals for services.

Purpose Area 2 applicants should familiarize themselves with the required services and collaborative partners for the Comprehensive Services Model (below), and be able to provide training and technical assistance to the Purpose Area 1 grantees. However, Purpose Area 2 grantees are prohibited from providing direct services to victims with these funds.

The Comprehensive Services Model includes four components: (1) collaborative partnerships, (2) a victim-centered approach to service delivery, (3) intensive case management services, and (4) specific required categories of victim services.

(1) Collaborative Partnerships A strong coordinated response to human trafficking requires collaborative partnerships with key community stakeholders. It should include, but is not limited to, the following potential community stakeholders.

Federal, state, local, and tribal law enforcement officers, prosecutors, and victim-witness coordinators.

Civil legal assistance providers.

State and tribal child welfare and child protection services professionals.

Tribal and nontribal domestic violence, homeless, and youth shelter programs and transitional housing programs.

Tribal and nontribal mental health services providers, including drug- and alcohol-treatment programs.

Federal, state, and local adult and youth detention facilities, halfway houses, and group homes.

Educational services and job-training programs for adults and youth.

Purpose Area 1 award recipients who do not submit executed MOUs with key stakeholders as a part of their application for funding will be required to develop MOUs within 18 months post-award. OVC will provide these award recipients with technical assistance to develop and execute MOUs that outline the roles and responsibilities of each collaborative partner.

(2) Victim-Centered Approach to Service Delivery Additionally, under the Comprehensive Services Model, all Purpose Area 1 grantees will be required to develop programs that are holistic and victim centered. The following are key features of a victim-centered approach to providing direct services to victims of human trafficking:

Adopting a trauma-informed approach to providing services.

Creating individualized service plans to meet the needs of each victim.

Educating victims about their options so they may make informed decisions about the support they need to overcome their victimization; address socioeconomic, psychological, and other issues that may have contributed to their victimization; and formulate and achieve personal goals.

(3) Intensive Case Management Services Intensive case management is a key component of the Comprehensive Services Model. The careful and consistent coordination of the delivery of services to victims across multiple systems ensures that the victim’s holistic needs are met. Intensive case management also ensures that victims have the support necessary to make decisions about their lives, while they also work to address the impact of ongoing traumatic stress related to their victimization, as well as the investigation and prosecution of their trafficker(s).

Purpose Area 1 award recipients must develop a service delivery plan that provides access to case management services for all victims, regardless of where the victim resides (e.g., minor victims who reside in a group home, foster care placement, or with family; adults living on their own, in a residential substance abuse program, or an emergency shelter).

(4) Required Comprehensive Victim Services With training and technical assistance provided by the Purpose Area 2 award recipient, each Purpose Area 1 grantee will be required to develop and implement a comprehensive plan to deliver services to urban AI/AN victims of human trafficking, which includes, at a minimum, a plan to provide or refer victims to the following services:

Intake and assessment of eligibility for services.

Intensive case management, including assessment of client needs; development of individualized service plans; assessment of eligibility for other public or community-based services; assistance in accessing publicly funded programs; help with safety planning; assistance with completing crime victim compensation claims; information and referral services; documentation of services provided;

and routine follow-up to ensure that the victim’s needs are being met.

Emergency shelter, transitional and permanent housing (including group and independent living options), and food/sustenance resources.

Medical and dental care.

Mental health counseling, including emergency or crisis services, clinical evaluation and assessments, substance abuse treatment, and individual or group counseling, as appropriate.

Victim advocacy, including assisting victims with accessing information about crime victims’ rights and services; communicating or coordinating with victim-witness professionals at federal agencies (e.g., Federal Bureau of Investigation, Bureau of Indian Affairs, United States Attorneys’ offices) and victim-witness professionals at state, local, or tribal law enforcement and prosecution agencies;

communicating and coordinating services with victim advocates and other staff employed by tribal and nontribal domestic violence shelter programs and rape/sexual assault response centers and programs; communicating and coordinating services with local and tribal Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner (SANE) programs and Sexual Assault Response Teams (SART). Specific tasks associated with advocating on behalf of victims of labor trafficking in these settings may include keeping the victim informed of the status of an investigation or prosecution; assisting a victim with completing an application for state crime victim compensation benefits; educating victims about the availability of sexual assault medical forensic exams; accompanying victims to court proceedings;

and assisting victims with exercising their rights as crime victims under federal or state law.

Literacy education, job training, and education and GED assistance that is culturally appropriate.

Life skills training, including managing personal finances, self-care, parenting classes, and programs that help victims achieve self-sufficiency.

Employment and transportation assistance.

Assistance with accessing culturally specific services, including, but not limited to, traditional healing ceremonies.

Access to a 24-hour crisis response to emergency calls from clients and law enforcement, including evenings and weekends (e.g., crisis hotline, rotating cell phone coverage, call-forwarding or answering service, or a protocol for responding to after-hours victim emergencies and emergency referrals).

Civil legal assistance, to include assistance with screening clients to determine eligibility for services;

legal information; explanation of legal rights/protections, including assistance in obtaining restitution and enforcing compliance with federal and state victims’ rights laws; assistance with family law matters related to the trafficking victimization, including, but not limited to, protection orders, representation in family court proceedings, and petitions for the emancipation of minors; assistance with family reunification; referrals to pro bono attorneys; and counseling related to vacating or expunging a victim’s nonviolent criminal conviction where allowed by law for victims of trafficking when the conviction was a direct result of being a trafficking victim.

Note: OVC funding may not be used for criminal defense services.

Successful Program Purpose Area 1 applicants will be required to create a post-award plan for the delivering comprehensive services to human trafficking victims.

Eligibility for Services Under this program, Purpose Area 1 grantees will serve AI/AN victims of human trafficking. These funds are not intended to be used to meet the needs of victims of other forms of violence (e.g., sexual assault, domestic violence, dating violence, or stalking), unless a victim experiences human trafficking victimization in addition to, or in the context of, another violent crime.

Activities That Compromise Victim Safety and Recovery The following activities have been found to jeopardize victim safety or deter or prevent physical or emotional healing for victims, and may not be supported with funds from this program.

The development and implementation of policies or procedures that: exclude victims from receiving safe shelter, advocacy services, counseling, and other assistance based on factors not related to victim safety; compromise the confidentiality of information and privacy of persons receiving OVC-funded services; impose requirements on victims in order to receive services (e.g., must receive counseling, must seek civil or criminal remedies); and/orfail to conduct safety planning with victims.

The implementation of project designs and/or budget allocations that fail to account for the accessibility needs of individuals with disabilities and individuals who have limited English proficiency or are Deaf or hard of hearing.

The establishment or enhancement of a multidisciplinary collaborative community response lacking the appropriate policies and procedures about victim confidentiality and information sharing for the partnering agencies.

Applications for funding that propose any of the policies, procedures, or practices identified above may be negatively evaluated during the OVC application review process, or may be removed from funding consideration.

If the application is selected for funding, the applicant will be required to remove any of the policies, procedures, and practices that may compromise victim safety from its program narrative and/or budget worksheet and budget narrative before receiving access to its funding award.

Training and Public Awareness Activities

Training and public awareness activities are integral to a community’s response to human trafficking. Purpose

Area 1 applicants are required to conduct local trainings for project partners on how to meet the needs of AI/AN victims of human trafficking; conduct outreach and awareness activities and events that educate urban American Indians and Alaska Natives and other members of the local community, as well as tribes, about human trafficking and the services available through the grant-funded project; and provide project staff with professional development opportunities (including travel to attend local and national victim assistance or regional or national trafficking conferences). Purpose Area 1 grantees will be required to create a post-award public awareness and training plan.

Under this program, Purpose Area 1 applicants must allocate a minimum of 2 percent and no more than 5 percent of the total award amount requested to deliver training for collaborative partners and other professionals, conduct public awareness activities, and provide project staff with professional development opportunities.

Program Evaluation Activities

Ongoing program evaluation is an important part of defining the success of a project. Purpose Area 1 applicants are required to develop a logic model to help them establish an iterative process to assess the effectiveness of their projects in meeting the specific goals and objectives identified in the approved proposal narrative. The logic model may be submitted as an attachment to the application for funding, or as a post-award deliverable.

Additionally, Purpose Area 1 grantees will be required to develop and implement a post-award program evaluation plan outlining how the grantee will evaluate the effectiveness of the activities carried out with Project Beacon funds as part of the grant-funded project.

Purpose Area 1 applicants must budget a minimum of 2 percent, but no more than 5 percent, of the total award amount to support individual program evaluation activities.

Goals, Objectives, Deliverables, and Timeline

Goals The overarching goal of this program is to increase the quantity and quality of victim-centered services available to assist AI/AN victims of human trafficking in urban areas. This will be accomplished by developing the capacity of urban Indian centers to meet victims’ needs by providing a comprehensive range of services either in-house or through referrals to a network of collaborative partners.

Objectives for Program Purpose Area 1: Direct Services By developing the capacity of urban Indian centers to provide services to AI/AN victims of human trafficking in urban areas, Project Beacon will increase the quantity and quality of services available to AI/AN victims of human trafficking. Purpose Area 1 award recipients will work toward achieving the following objectives:

Develop and implement a plan or strategy to provide the services described in the Comprehensive Services Model section, through (a) the recipient’s provision of direct services to victims; (b) the formation of strategic collaborative partnerships with other community-based organizations and agencies that can meet the victims’ needs; or (c) a combination of (a) and (b).

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Work collaboratively with federal, state, local, and tribal law enforcement; victim service providers;

and community- and faith-based organizations and agencies to facilitate the identification and referral to services of AI/AN victims of human trafficking.

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Participate in OVC-sponsored training and technical assistance to (a) build the recipient’s organizational capacity to provide direct services to AI/AN victims of human trafficking through professional development training and education for organizational staff; (b) craft an effective public awareness and training plan; (c) develop and implement an effective awareness and training plan;

and (d) develop and implement a plan to evaluate activities for the grantee’s individual project.

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Participate in data collection and program evaluation activities to assess whether the funded project is meeting its stated goals and objectives.

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Objectives for Purpose Area 2: Training and Technical Assistance To develop Purpose Area 1 grantees’ capacity to increase the quality and quantity of services available to AI/AN victims of human trafficking, the successful Purpose Area 2 applicant will work toward achieving the following objectives:

Provide guidance, training, technical assistance, and resources to Purpose Area 1 grantees that (a) educate grantees about the nature, dynamics, and unique needs of urban AI/AN victims of human trafficking; (b) help grantees develop and finalize required products; (c) develop the grantees’ capacity to provide services to victims using OVC’s Comprehensive Services Model; (d) aid grantees in implementing a plan to collect data required for the award program’s performance measures, and to define their own program evaluation measurements to implement their program evaluation plan;

(e) assist grantees in developing training curricula and resources sufficient to train other professionals on the needs of AI/AN victims of human trafficking; (f) advise grantees on how to develop and implement effective outreach strategies for victims of human trafficking; (g) support grantees in developing collaborative partnerships sufficient to satisfy the solicitation’s requirements to provide victims with access to comprehensive services; and (h) help grantees in developing and finalizing all project deliverables, including a plan for comprehensive services, MOUs, and a logic model.

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Provide onsite and remote TTA to grantees to support the activities outlined in 1 (a) to (h) above, including an annual 2-day meeting for Purpose Area 1 grantees.

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Identify and link grantees with national, state, local, and tribal resources that can enhance their efforts to develop and deliver direct services to victims, training to collaborative partners and other service providers, and community outreach and awareness events to the target audience of urban AI/AN individuals.

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The Purpose Area 2 award recipient of this solicitation will be expected to work closely in collaboration with OVC and other OVC human trafficking TTA providers and staff, as necessary and appropriate to achieve the goals and objectives of the Project Beacon Program.

Deliverables

Purpose Area 1: Direct Services Deliverables If a Purpose Area 1 applicant does not submit the deliverables below as attachments to their application for funding, they must send them to OVC for review and approval within 18 months following the grantee’s receipt of an award:

A plan for comprehensive services that illustrates how the grantee will provide each of the services listed in the Comprehensive Services Model section, either through the efforts of the proposed project staff, other grantee employees, consultants, or contractors, and/or through referrals to a network of collaborative partners.

MOU(s) with the list of key collaborative partners identified in the solicitation. The MOU(s) must have an effective date that extends to, or after, September 30, 2024.

A logic model that graphically illustrates how the project’s goals, objectives, and activities are interrelated to address the problem stated in the “Description of the Issue” section of the proposal narrative.

A plan for developing and delivering training and public awareness activities.

A plan for developing and implementing a plan to evaluate program activities.

For up to the first 18 months of the award period, Purpose Area 1 grantees who did not submit the required deliverables as part of their application for funding, will have access only to one-third of the funding available under an award made under this program. Within this first 18 months, grantees must focus their program activities on developing and finalizing a Comprehensive Services Model plan, a logic model, and MOUs with the grantee’s collaborative partners. Once grantees have received OVC approval on the list of deliverables outlined above, OVC will release the remaining two-thirds of the award funds.

Purpose Area 1 grant recipients who are waiting for post-award approval for their required program deliverables cannot support direct services to victims with funding from their OVC award until after OVC has released the remaining two-thirds of the award funds. OVC recognizes that there may be emergency situations where no other resource is available to assist victims; in those instances, grantees may seek emergency authorization from OVC to provide direct services to a victim of human trafficking prior to receiving final approval from OVC on its required deliverables. OVC will evaluate such requests on a case-by-case basis.

Purpose Area 2: Training and Technical Assistance Deliverables The successful Purpose Area 2 applicant must submit the following deliverables to OVC for review and approval during the award period:

Within 120 days of receipt of the award, an initial, written, individualized grantee TTA needs assessment and plan for the delivery of TTA for each Purpose Area 1 grantee. The needs assessment and service delivery plan must be updated and submitted to OVC within 90 days following the start of Federal Fiscal Years 2023 and 2024.

Three annual 2-day grantee training meetings.

One annual 2-day onsite individualized TTA visit with each Purpose Area 1 grantee.

A minimum of six annual remote training opportunities (e.g., webinars, conference calls) for all Purpose Area 1 grantees.

Quarterly conference calls with OVC staff and all TTA project staff, consultants, and contractors to discuss the status of the programs being developed and implemented by the Purpose Area 1 grantees throughout the award period.

The Goals, Objectives, and Deliverables are directly related to the performance measures that show the completed work’s results as discussed in the Application and Submission Information section.

Resource Coordination Proposals submitted under Purpose Area 1 should fill gaps in existing services. All applicants should determine if there is an existing federally funded trafficking victim service provider within their jurisdiction, and work to ensure that the new application does not duplicate services currently funded by OVC, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), the Office on Violence Against Women, or another federal office or agency.

If there is currently a federally funded trafficking victim service grantee within the same jurisdiction as the applicant’s proposal, applicants must document (1) how the new proposal either supports different services than those already funded or provide strong justification for why additional funding is needed to fill gaps in services and (2) how these services will be coordinated within the geographic area.

Applicants must also include information about any other open award of federal and state funds (including programs supported by Victims of Crime Act (VOCA) state victim assistance funds) that are being or will be used, in whole or in part, for one or more of the identical cost items outlined in this application. Applicants with current OVC funding for services for victims of human trafficking must demonstrate how the new proposal fills gaps in services not previously addressed by the existing OVC grant.

The list of OVC-funded trafficking victim services grantees and the geographic regions they serve are listed on the OVC website at https://ovc.ncjrs.gov/humantrafficking/traffickingmatrix.html, and a list of some HHS-funded grantees is available at https://www.acf.hhs.gov/otip/grants. Purpose Area 1 applications that fail to address resource coordination with other OVC and federally and state-funded similar grant programs in their proposal will be negatively scored and may receive a deduction in points during the review process.

With regard to services provided to individual clients, applicants must ensure that eligible victims served under this program are not concurrently served by other federally funded grants, contracts, or subawards issued to the applicant agency specifically for services for victims of human trafficking, such as awards funded by HHS or other federal sources. Services can be provided to a victim in the aftermath of victim identification: service providers should facilitate victims’ access to other federal, state, or local programs for which they may be eligible, including

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HHS-funded services.

The HHS Trafficking Victim Assistance Program (TVAP) funds case management services on a per capita basis for foreign national victims and those potentially seeking HHS certification. It is a valuable resource in communities where there are funding gaps due to the lack of federally funded victim service providers or significant spikes in caseloads. Applicants should plan on using OVC funds to provide services to foreign national trafficking clients regardless of HHS certification, and should not anticipate leveraging TVAP funds as a matter of course unless extraordinary circumstances arise. Grantees funded under this solicitation desiring to access TVAP funding due to such circumstances must contact their grant manager to discuss the need.

Evidence-Based Programs or Practices

OJP strongly encourages the use of data and evidence in policymaking and program development for criminal justice, juvenile justice, and crime victim services. For additional information and resources on evidence-based programs or practices, see the OJP Grant Application Resource Guide.

Information Regarding Potential Evaluation of Programs and Activities

OJP may conduct or support an evaluation of the programs and activities funded under this solicitation. For additional information, see the OJP Grant Application Resource Guide section entitled “Information Regarding Potential Evaluation of Programs and Activities.”

Federal Award Information

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Performance Start Date

Performance Duration (Months)

C-OVC-2022-00005-PROD Purpose Area 1: Direct Services 8 $475,000.00 10/1/22 12:00

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C-OVC-2022-00006-PROD Purpose Area 2: Training and Technical Assistance 1 $550,000.00 10/1/22 12:00

AM 36

Awards, Amounts and Durations

Period of Performance Start Date

10/1/22 12:00 AM

Period of Performance Duration (Months)

Anticipated Total Amount to be Awarded Under Solicitation $4,350,000.00

Continuation Funding Intent

OVC may, in certain cases, provide additional funding in future years to awards made under this solicitation through continuation awards. OJP will consider, among other factors, OJP’s strategic priorities, a recipient’s overall management of the award, and the award-funded work’s progress, when making continuation award decisions.

Availability of Funds

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This solicitation, and awards (if any are made) under this solicitation, are subject to the availability of appropriated funds and to any modifications or additional requirements that may be imposed by the agency or by law. In addition, nothing in this solicitation is intended to, and does not, create any right or benefit, substantive or procedural, enforceable at law or in equity by any party against the United States, its departments, agencies, or entities, its officers, employees, or agents, or any other person.

Types of Awards

OVC expects to make awards under this solicitation as cooperative agreements, which provide for OJP to have substantial involvement in carrying out award activities. See the “Administrative, National Policy, and Other Legal Requirements” section of the OJP Grant Application Resource Guide for additional information.

Financial Management and System of Internal Controls

Award recipients and subrecipients (including recipients or subrecipients that are pass-through entities) must, as described in the Part 200 Uniform Requirements as set out at 2 C.F.R. 200.303, comply with standards for financial and program management. See the OJP Grant Application Resource Guide for additional information.

Budget Information

Funds awarded under this solicitation may be used only for purposes and activities consistent with the goals and objectives of this solicitation described for each Purpose Area and to provide, or facilitate, victim access to the list of comprehensive services identified in the “Specific Information” section.

Purpose Area 1 Purpose Area 1 applicants must include the following costs associated with the following activities in their budget worksheet and budget narrative:

Travel: Applicants must budget sufficient funds to pay for airfare, lodging, and per diem costs to send no more than two program staff members to Washington, D.C., for a 2-day Project Beacon grantee meeting in each year of the award period.

Training and Public Awareness: Applicants must budget a minimum of 2 percent and no more than 5 percent of the total award amount for costs associated with training collaborative partners and other professionals, conducting public awareness activities, and providing project staff with professional development opportunities.

Program Evaluation: Applicants are required to budget a minimum of 2 percent and no more than 5 percent of the total award amount for costs associated with program evaluation activities.

Purpose Area 2 Purpose Area 2 applicants must include the following costs associated with the following activities in their budget worksheet and budget narrative:

Travel: Applicants must budget sufficient funds to pay for airfare, lodging, and per diem costs to send at least two project staff and/or consultants to provide 2 days of onsite TTA to up to eight Purpose Area 1 grantees for each year of the award period.

Meeting Costs: Applicants must budget sufficient funds to pay for staff and consultant airfare, lodging, and per diem costs associated with planning and conducting an annual 2-day meeting (rental fees for meeting space, AV costs, meeting supplies, etc.) using Washington, D.C., as the destination, for Purpose Area 1 grantees in each year of the award period.

Cost Sharing or Matching Requirement

This solicitation does not require a match.

Pre-agreement Costs (also known as Pre-award Costs)

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Costs).

Limitation on Use of Award Funds for Employee Compensation: Waiver

See the OJP Grant Application Resource Guide information on the Limitation on Use of Award Funds for Employee Compensation; Waiver.

Prior Approval, Planning, and Reporting of Conference/Meeting/Training Costs

See the OJP Grant Application Resource Guide for information on Prior Approval, Planning, and Reporting of Conference/Meeting/Training Costs.

Costs Associated with Language Assistance (if applicable)

See the OJP Grant Application Resource Guide for information on Costs Associated with Language Assistance.

Eligibility Information

For additional eligibility information, see the solicitation cover page.

To advance Executive Order 13929 Safe Policing for Safe Communities, the Attorney General determined that all state, local, and university or college law enforcement agencies must be certified by an approved independent credentialing body or have started the certification process, to be eligible for FY 2022 DOJ discretionary grant funding. To become certified, the law enforcement agency must meet two mandatory conditions: (1) the agency’s use-of-force policies adhere to all applicable federal, state, and local laws and (2) the agency’s use-of-force policies prohibit chokeholds except in situations where use of deadly force is allowed by law. The certification requirement also applies to law enforcement agencies receiving DOJ discretionary grant funding through a subaward. For detailed information on this certification requirement, please visit https://cops.usdoj.gov/SafePolicingEO to access the Standards for Certification on Safe Policing for Safe Communities, the Implementation Fact Sheet, and the List of Designated Independent Credentialing Bodies.

All recipients and subrecipients (including any for-profit organization) must forgo any profit or management fee.

For information on cost sharing or match requirements, see the “Federal Award Information” section.

Application and Submission Information

The following application elements must be included in the application to meet the basic minimum requirements to advance to peer review and receive consideration for funding:

Proposal Narrative Budget Worksheet and Budget Narrative An organizational mission statement (Purpose Area 1 applicants only)

See the “Application Elements and Formatting Instructions” section of the OJP Grant Application Resource Guide for information on what happens to an application that does not contain all the specified elements or is nonresponsive to the scope of the solicitation.

Information to Complete the Application for Federal Assistance (SF-424)

The SF-424 must be submitted in Grants.gov. It is a required standard form used as a cover sheet for submission of pre-applications, applications, and related information. See the OJP Grant Application Resource Guide for additional information on completing the SF-424.

In Section 8F of the SF-424, please include the name and contact information of the individual who will complete the application in JustGrants. JustGrants will use this information (email address) to assign the application to this user in JustGrants.

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Intergovernmental Review: This solicitation (“funding opportunity”) is not subject to Executive Order 12372. (In completing the SF-424, an applicant is to answer question 19 by selecting the response that the “Program is not covered by E.O. 12372.”)

Standard Applicant Information (JustGrants 424 and General Agency Information)

The Standard Applicant Information section of the JustGrants application is pre-populated with the SF-424 data submitted in Grants.gov. The applicant will need to review the Standard Applicant Information in JustGrants and make edits as needed. Within this section, the applicant will need to: add zip codes for areas affected by the project; confirm its Authorized Representative; and verify and confirm the organization's unique entity identifier, legal name, and address.

Proposal Abstract

A proposal abstract (no more than 400 words) summarizing the proposed project, including the purpose of the project, primary activities, expected outcomes, the service area, intended beneficiaries and subrecipients (if known), will be completed in the JustGrants web-based form. This abstract should be written in the third person and will be made publicly available on the OJP website if the project is awarded.

Proposal Narrative

The proposal narrative should be submitted as an attachment in JustGrants. The attached document should be double-spaced, using a standard 12-point font; have no less than 1-inch margins; and should not exceed 25 pages. Pages should be numbered and submitted as an attachment. If the proposal narrative fails to comply with these length restrictions, OVC may consider such noncompliance in peer review and in final award decisions.

The following sections must be included as part of the proposal narrative:

a. Description of the Issue Purpose Area 1: Purpose Area 1 applicants must include the following as part of a detailed, written narrative description of the issue to be addressed by the proposed project:

A description of the applicant’s organizational history, mission, and current menu of services offered to American Indians and Alaska Natives. The applicant must submit a copy of its organizational mission statement as an attachment to the application and is encouraged to attach the biographies of the members of its board of directors to the application too.

A description of other organizations and agencies in the proposed community to be served that are…