Opportunity Information: Apply for O OVC 2021 04002
The OVC FY 2021 Services for Minor Victims of Sex Trafficking grant opportunity (Funding Opportunity Number: O-OVC-2021-04002) is a discretionary federal grant program run by the U.S. Department of Justice, Office for Victims of Crime. Its core purpose is to help communities develop, expand, and strengthen direct assistance programs for minors who are victims of sex trafficking. The program is framed within DOJ priorities that emphasize advancing civil rights, increasing access to justice, supporting people harmed by crime, protecting the public from evolving threats, and building trust between law enforcement and the community. In practice, this funding is meant to build or improve the on-the-ground services that help trafficked children and youth reach safety, stabilize, and begin recovery.
The opportunity is grounded in the federal Trafficking Victims Protection Act (TVPA) definition of a trafficking victim, specifically the definition of a "severe form of trafficking in persons" in 22 U.S.C. 7102(11). Under that definition, sex trafficking qualifies when a commercial sex act is induced by force, fraud, or coercion, or when the person induced to perform the act is under 18 years old. The statute also includes labor trafficking (recruitment, harboring, transportation, provision, or obtaining of a person for labor or services through force, fraud, or coercion for involuntary servitude, peonage, debt bondage, or slavery), but this particular program is explicitly focused on minor victims of sex trafficking. The emphasis on minors matters because, under the TVPA, proof of force, fraud, or coercion is not required when the victim is under 18 and the conduct involves a commercial sex act.
From a funding and structure standpoint, awards are issued as grants under the broader activity area of Income Security and Social Services, and the program is associated with CFDA 16.320. The maximum award amount listed is $1,000,000 per award, and OVC anticipated making around 8 awards. The opportunity was posted on May 6, 2021, with an original closing date of June 22, 2021. While those dates are specific to the FY 2021 cycle, they also give a sense of the typical application window and scale of funding for organizations that track similar OVC solicitations year to year.
Eligibility is broad and designed to allow multiple parts of a community response to apply. Eligible applicants include state, county, and city or township governments; special district governments; federally recognized tribal governments and other tribal organizations; public housing authorities/Indian housing authorities; public and state-controlled institutions of higher education; private institutions of higher education; and nonprofit organizations with 501(c)(3) status (other than institutions of higher education). This range signals that OVC expects proposals from victim service providers, government agencies, tribes, and campus or research-linked entities that can either deliver direct services or coordinate networks of care for trafficked minors.
Overall, the grant is best understood as capacity-building and service-delivery support for programs that work directly with minor survivors of sex trafficking. The stated intent is not only to maintain existing services, but to expand and strengthen them, which typically implies improving coordinated responses, increasing access to specialized victim-centered assistance, and enhancing the ability of local systems to identify victims and connect them to appropriate care in a way that prioritizes safety, rights, and long-term recovery.Apply for O OVC 2021 04002
- The Department of Justice, Office for Victims of Crime in the income security and social services sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "OVC FY 2021 Services for Minor Victims of Sex Trafficking" and is now available to receive applicants.
- Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 16.320.
- This funding opportunity was created on May 06, 2021.
- Applicants must submit their applications by Jun 22, 2021. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
- Each selected applicant is eligible to receive up to $1,000,000.00 in funding.
- The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 8 candidate(s).
- Eligible applicants include: State governments, County governments, City or township governments, Special district governments, Public and State controlled institutions of higher education, Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized), Public housing authorities/Indian housing authorities, Native American tribal organizations (other than Federally recognized tribal governments), Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education, Private institutions of higher education.
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