Notice ID: RFI1475076
OTIP seeks contractor support with knowledge, experience, and abilities to manage and expand a national-scope T/TA center. To achieve the intended results, the Contractor shall perform the work outlined in this Performance Work Statement (PWS) and develop and deliver evidence-based, person-centered, trauma informed T/TA support services and disseminate cutting-edge information to health care and behavioral health professionals, trafficking victim service providers, volunteers, policymakers, and allied professionals under this contract.
There are five guiding principles that serve as the foundation for NHTTAC and they are integrated throughout NHTTAC T/TA and other services:
Inclusive of All Types of Human Trafficking:
T/TA and other solutions must be inclusive of all forms of human trafficking. Professionals must ensure that from the top down and bottom up, that organizations are recognizing and responding to both labor and sex trafficking.
Trauma-Informed and Person-Centered:
T/TA emphasizes delivering trauma-informed, person-centered services to all individuals. T/TA programming is informed by subject matter experts, including those with lived experience.
Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate:
Human trafficking is a crime that affects people from all races, ethnicities, and cultures, who speak a variety of languages. As a result, it’s important develop the capacity of communities to offer services that are culturally and linguistically appropriate and reflective of diversity, equity, and inclusion principles.
Multidisciplinary:
People who are at risk of trafficking or who have experienced trafficking will need the help of a multidisciplinary team of professionals. Activities should include effort to educate organizations and communities to work with a variety of different partners to implement a public health approach.
Data-Driven:
The SOAR Framework and foundational principles are based on research and evidence-based practices. Similarly, effective anti-trafficking programs need to develop and implement policies that are driven by research and data from the field, reflective of local trafficking issues, and incorporate lessons learned from the evaluation of programs.
In addition, OTIP seeks subject matter expertise on emerging issues, research, innovative solutions, and addressing challenges faced by diverse populations impacted by both sex and labor trafficking. While human trafficking cuts across gender, socio-economic, and other demographic factors, populations at disproportionate risk for human trafficking include survivors of other forms of violence (e.g. child maltreatment, intimate partner violence); disconnected individuals (e.g. runaway and homeless youth, unaccompanied children, migrant workers); and underserved communities (e.g. LBTQIA2S+, indigenous). In alignment with the function of OTIP, the Contractor shall be responsible for primarily providing T/TA that is focused on the domestic context of human trafficking in the United States as well as effective responses to foreign national survivors of trafficking residing within the United States.
