OVC FY25 Integrated Services for Minor Victims of Human Trafficking | O OVC 2025 172521

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The OVC FY25 Integrated Services for Minor Victims of Human Trafficking grant opportunity (Funding Opportunity Number O-OVC-2025-172521) is a discretionary federal grant from the U.S. Department of Justice, Office for Victims of Crime (OVC), listed under CFDA 16.320 in the area of Income Security and Social Services. The core purpose is to fund programs that improve how communities identify, engage, and serve minors who have experienced human trafficking, with a strong emphasis on making services appropriate for a young person s developmental stage and individualized needs. In practical terms, the opportunity is aimed at strengthening the availability, quality, and overall delivery of integrated, trauma informed supports for child and youth trafficking victims, recognizing that minors often require different approaches than adults due to safety concerns, legal considerations, schooling, family dynamics, and developmental factors.

The program is designed to support comprehensive service models rather than isolated or one off interventions. While the notice summary does not list every service category, the focus on integrated services generally points to coordinated, multi agency responses that can wrap around a minor and address immediate safety and stabilization needs as well as longer term recovery. This typically involves connecting victims to age appropriate advocacy, case management, medical and behavioral health care, crisis intervention, safe housing or placement options, legal services and navigation, support related to education, and ongoing victim centered planning that takes into account the minor s evolving needs. The key theme is tailoring services to children and adolescents, meaning programs should be structured so that they can respond differently to a young child versus an older teen, and so that engagement strategies and service plans account for trauma impacts, coercion dynamics, and barriers to disclosure that are common in trafficking cases.

Eligible applicants are broad and include multiple levels of government and nonprofit partners. Entities that may apply include state governments, county governments, city or township governments, special district governments, public and state controlled institutions of higher education, federally recognized Native American tribal governments, public housing authorities and Indian housing authorities, Native American tribal organizations (other than federally recognized tribal governments), and nonprofit organizations with IRS 501(c)(3) status (excluding institutions of higher education). The notice also allows for an "Others" category, and clarifies what that means in this context: other units of local government include towns, boroughs, parishes, villages, or other general purpose political subdivisions of a state. It also provides a definition of "state" for eligibility purposes, which includes any U.S. state as well as the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands.

There is a specific eligibility restriction for certain nonprofits related to offshore accounts. Nonprofit organizations that hold money in offshore accounts for the purpose of avoiding paying the tax described in 26 U.S.C. 511(a) are not eligible to apply. This is an important screening factor for nonprofit applicants and is intended to prevent grant awards to organizations using offshore structures to avoid certain federal tax obligations associated with unrelated business income.

From a funding standpoint, the opportunity has an award ceiling of $950,000 per award and expects to make about 12 awards. Because it is a discretionary grant, awards are competitive and contingent on the quality of the application and alignment with OVC priorities described in the full NOFO. The posted closing date is February 24, 2026. The listing shows a creation date of December 30, 2025, which indicates when the opportunity record was generated or posted in the system.

Overall, this OVC funding is best understood as support for communities and systems that are prepared to build or strengthen coordinated service networks for minor trafficking victims, ensuring that services are not only available but also designed around child and adolescent development, trauma recovery, safety planning, and long term stabilization. Applicants that can demonstrate strong partnerships across victim services, child welfare, healthcare, schools, juvenile justice, housing, and culturally specific providers tend to fit the integrated model implied by the opportunity, especially when they can show clear pathways for how a trafficked minor will be identified, protected, connected to care, and supported over time.

• The Office for Victims of Crime in the income security and social services sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "OVC FY25 Integrated Services for Minor Victims of Human 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 2025-12-30.
• Applicants must submit their applications by 2026-02-24. (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 $950,000.00 in funding.
• The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 12 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, Others.

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