[Federal Register: August 24, 2007 (Volume 72, Number 164)]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Administration for Children and Families

[C.F.D.A. Number: 93.598]

 
Notice To Award a Grant

AGENCY: Office of Refugee Resettlement, HHS.

SUMMARY: The Office of Refugee Resettlement, Anti-Trafficking in 
Persons Office, will award a non-competitive grant to Polaris Project, 
P.O. Box 77892, Washington DC, 20013, in the amount of $394,452 in 
Fiscal Year 2007 due to urgent and compelling circumstances. The award 
will be used to improve the systemic response to protect victims of 
human trafficking in the United States through the Training, Technical 
Assistance, and Strategic Planning (TTASP) Program.
    The specific goal of the TTASP program is to raise the standards of 
the anti-trafficking field through the development of new and cutting 
edge strategies, best practices, improved national levels of 
coordination and strategic planning, and capacity building for the 
field through practitioner-based training and technical assistance. The 
services obtained are intended to increase levels of victim 
identification through the creation of improved direct outreach 
strategies, enable localized best practice strategies to be shared on a 
national scale, provide around the clock technical assistance from 
leading human trafficking experts, and be a resource for strategic 
planning assistance at the local, State and Federal levels. Services 
will be provided via a centralized online clearinghouse of training and 
technical assistance resources, a dedicated technical assistance 
telephone hotline, on-site training and consulting services, and a 
peer-to-peer training and strategic planning event.
    Grant and Cooperative Agreement Program Authority for this activity 
is contained in section 106(b) and section 107(b)(1)(B) of the 
Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 (TVPA), Public Law 106-386, 
Division A, 114 Stat. 1464 (2000) and in section 412(c)(1)(A) of the 
Immigration and Nationality Act (INA), (8 U.S.C. 1522(c)(1)(A)).
    The Recipient will:
    1. Develop anti-trafficking materials covering topics not currently 
in circulation;
    2. Create an online clearing house of training and technical 
assistance resources, including all TTASP training manuals, briefing 
materials, model strategic plans, sample outreach materials, user-
driven worksheets, and summaries of best practices and model programs;
    3. Provide targeted training and technical assistance on effective 
anti-trafficking strategies to anti-trafficking coalitions, task 
forces, direct outreach organizations, service providers, and others as 
needed;
    4. Provide around the clock technical assistance via telephone on 
an emergency or on-demand basis for service providers or law 
enforcement officials that encounter trafficking victims;
    5. Create a comprehensive strategic planning document for use by 
new and existing anti-trafficking coalitions that consolidates national 
best practices for implementing anti-trafficking activities at the 
local level;
    6. Provide technical review of third-party materials, including, 
but not limited to client service protocols and forms, outreach 
protocols and materials, and organizational training documents; and
    7. Provide consulting services to ORR in areas of strategic 
planning, staying abreast of the latest trends in the field, and any 
other technical assistance requested.
    After the appropriate reviews, it has been determined that the need 
to improve the systemic response to protect victims of human 
trafficking in the United States through the training, technical 
assistance, and strategic planning is urgent and compelling. The 
project period is September 30, 2007 to September 29, 2010.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Vanessa Garza, Office of Refugee 
Resettlement, Administration for Children and Families, 370 L'Enfant 
Promenade, SW., Washington, DC 20447, telephone (202) 401-2334.

    Dated: August 14, 2007.
Martha E. Newton,
Director, Office of Refugee Resettlement.
[FR Doc. E7-16842 Filed 8-23-07; 8:45 am]

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