Sex trafficking

The Department of Justice's Office of Justice Programs (OJP) has announced $261 million in awards to support mentoring services for youth and protect children from abuse, exploitation, and sex trafficking. OJJDP awarded nearly $85 million to national, state, and local organizations to provide mentoring to youth who are at risk of juvenile delinquency, victimization, and juvenile justice system involvement. This includes support of OJJDP's National...

The Tribal Youth Program Resource Center provides training and technical assistance to OJJDP Juvenile Healing to Wellness Court and Tribal Youth Program grantees.

The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children® provides virtual learning, in-person training, case support, publications, community engagement, and prevention education programs.

This program provides funding for membership and accreditation services for children’s advocacy centers, multidisciplinary teams, and related professionals who provide a coordinated and comprehensive response to victims of child abuse and their families.

The project seeks to increase awareness and knowledge confronting families served by juvenile and family court systems and the impact prior adverse experiences can have on families.

Under this project, the Northeast Regional Children's Advocacy Center provides training and technical assistance to develop and strengthen children's advocacy centers and multidisciplinary teams in the Northeast Region.

Through this program, the National Children's Alliance will increase the number of children advocacy center programs serving child victims of abuse, with an emphasis on reaching underserved areas (rural, remote, and Tribal) and populations (American Indian, Alaska Native, and Hispanic communities, and military families).

Through this new initiative, the National Children’s Alliance will continue efforts to increase the number of children served in all jurisdictions across the U.S.

The National White Collar Crime Center providing training opportunities in computer forensics, cyber/financial crime, and intelligence analysis.

This project provides training to the Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force program and affiliated federal, state, and local law enforcement and prosecutorial agencies in the investigative training focused on combatting technology-facilitated crimes against children.

Through this program, National Children's Alliance will increase the number of children's advocacy center programs serving child/youth victims of sex trafficking and child pornography.

Under this award, the Gault Center provides skilled and experienced technical assistance to OJJDP's state and local grantees under Category 1.

OJJDP’s National Training and Technical Assistance Center serves as the principal coordinator, broker, and facilitator for all of OJJDP’s training and technical assistance resources and services.

Through the Court Appointed Special Advocate/Guardian ad Litem program, OJJDP seeks to ensure that abused and neglected children receive high-quality best interest advocacy in dependency court hearings.

Under this project, the National Children's Advocacy Center provides training opportunities, technical assistance, publications, and resources for child abuse response professionals.

The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children® is enhancing existing programs of work with additional staff and creating new programs of work to address gaps in the fight against child sex trafficking in the United States.