Building Collaborative Responses to Trafficking Victims of Domestic and Sexual Violence Institute - Application 2025  
Training Institute in Washington, DC
August 20-22, 2025
(OVW Approved) 

Multidisciplinary teams are invited to participate in the Building Collaborative Responses to Trafficked Victims of Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault Institute. The Institute will focus on improving collaborative responses to address the needs of domestic violence and sexual assault survivors who have also experienced human trafficking. 

As a result of the Institute, participants will be better able to: 

  • Strengthen multi-disciplinary collaborative strategies in responding to adult and youth survivors of trafficking with domestic violence and sexual assault experiences. 

  • Define and clarify individual and organizational roles and responsibilities in responding to survivors of trafficking. 

  • Recognize the ways human trafficking can overlap with domestic violence and sexual assault. 

  • Increase the collaborative’s capacity to provide survivor-centered and trauma-informed response to survivors of trafficking and domestic violence and/or sexual assault.

  • Identify resource and collaboration gaps and develop strategies to support survivors.

  • Create an action plan to develop and implement a collaborative response to address the overlap of human trafficking with domestic violence and sexual assault. 

Faculty:  
* Kiricka Yarbough Smith, Anti-Human Trafficking Consultant, NC; 
* Perla Flores, Community Solutions, South Bay Coalition to End Human Trafficking (CA); 
* Detective Megan Bruneau Zentner, Major Investigations Section, Seattle Police Department; and Lakshmi Gopal, Amara Legal Services. 

Institute Schedule and Participation Activities Commitment: 

A. Participate in the in-person Institute, 2.5 days

  • Wednesday, August 20, 2025:  8:00 am - 5:00 pm
  • Thursday, August 21, 2025:  9:00 am - 5:00 pm
  • Friday, August 22, 2025:  9:00 am - 12:00 pm
B. One preparatory live webinar interactive session,  (1 Hr.) and pre-Institute preparatory team collaboration assignment (2 hours estimate).

C. Create a collaboration action plan with your team throughout the program. 

D. Participate in at least one follow-up action plan peer exchange webinar session. 

Application deadline is June 30, 2025. If you are using Office on Violence Against Women U.S. Department of Justice (OVW) funds to participate, please obtain approval from your OVW program specialist. Due to space limitations, your application is not confirmed until you receive an acceptance letter from FUTURES' staff. Space is limited to 10-12 multidisciplinary teams.

Acceptance confirmations will be sent by 7/3/25

A limited number of travel scholarships are available for STOP grantees and potential STOP grantees. More information below.

Who is invited to attend?

  • Multidisciplinary teams (teams of 2 - 4) comprised of different organizations, which may include but are not limited to: domestic violence/sexual assault program staff, healthcare staff, attorneys/legal experts, law enforcement, anti-human trafficking programs, and task force members, and other community-based programs. It is recommended that team members have at least 1 - 2 years of anti-HT experience.
  • At least one team member needs to represent a domestic violence/sexual assault organization.
  • Teams with multiple decision-makers with at least one designated lead person.
  • OVW grantees and their OVW grantee partners can participate and use their OVW travel funds to send grant-funded staff and partners to this training, with prior approval from their OVW Program Manager.
  • Priority will be give to groups that have recently started or would like to enhance their collaborative efforts to improve support for human trafficking survivors, through an anti-human trafficking task force, coalition, or other multidisciplinary partnership.
Costs:

The training is provided free of charge. Participants are responsible for their own meals, lodging, travel arrangements, and costs associated with attending. Accommodations are available at the government rate of $183 per night + tax & service fee.  Logistics information will be provided upon confirmation. *Do not make any flight or travel arrangements until you are accepted to participate*

Note: If you are an OVW STOP (Services, Training, Officers, and Prosecutors, Violence Against Women Formula Grant Program) sub-grantee or potential sub-grantee , a limited number of travel scholarships are available.  Travel scholarships will only be available to cover the attendance of one team member and for those who do not already have travel funding allocated for trainings in their grant budgets.  

If you are a grantee of another OVW grant program, please discuss travel funding with your grant program specialist. 

For questions, including on your team configuration, please contact: 

Kennedy Brooks, learning@futureswithoutviolence.org 

This project is supported by Grant No. 15JOVW-23-GK-05126-MUMU, awarded by the Office on Violence Against Women, U.S. Department of Justice.  The opinions, findings, conclusions, and recommendations expressed in this publication/program/exhibition are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Department of Justice, Office on Violence Against Women. 

Gather your multidisciplinary team of 2-4 and apply to participate in the Institute, taking place in Washington D.C!!
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