This World Day Against Trafficking, we’re demanding true investment in survivors. The Trump Administration has spent the past 7 months cutting access to services, legal protections, and safety for human trafficking survivors in the US.
Read below to find out what we’re doing about it and how YOU can help!
Calls to Action
We need your help to urge the DOJ to release the FY25 grant solicitations so survivors are not cut off from lifesaving services on October 1st!
Send a letter to your members of Congress and the White House urging them to release the FY25 TVPA victim services funds!
Use our Resistbot campaign to send your letter via the link below or by texting “Sign PXOWRL” to 50409.
Send Your Letter HereCall the DOJ Comment Line:
202-353-1555
My name is ___________, and I am calling to ask the Department of Justice to release the FY25 TVPA grant Notice of Funding Opportunities (NOFOs) to protect the services survivors need to thrive.
These lifesaving services ensure that survivors have a safe place to sleep, healthcare, food, and counseling. Without services from community-based organizations, survivors will be stuck in exploitative situations and traffickers will be allowed to terrorize our community.
[Optional: add why this is important to you specifically, why your community needs these services]
DOJ should release the NOFOs for all OVC trafficking victim services programs immediately, with at least 60 days before submission deadlines, and restore canceled victim services programs. Even short lapses in services force survivors into danger.
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Check out the actions we’ve taken to save victim services funding this year
Our statements on the impacts of federal policy changes on survivors’ rights
- FNUSA Opposes Harmful Reconciliation Bill that Strips Protections for Survivors and Enables Trafficking
- FNUSA’s Statement on Funding Cuts to Lifesaving Victim Services Programs
- Where We’re Headed: How Federal Policy Changes are Threatening Survivors Lives
- The State of Human Trafficking Services One Month into the Second Trump Administration
Our efforts to spread the word about the importance of federal funding for services
- Coverage in The Cut about attacks on trafficking victim services
- Coverage in Reuters about grant cancellations
- Coverage from NBC News about cuts to trafficking protections for unaccompanied children
- Coverage in Roll Call about grant cancellations
- Coverage in Roll Call about attacks on the Office on Violence Against Women
- Coverage in the 19th about cuts to federal human trafficking programs