Lighthouse: Services, Outreach, and Awareness for Labor Trafficking Demonstration Program

The Office on Trafficking in Persons (OTIP) within the Administration for Children and Families (ACF) is announcing funds for the Lighthouse: Services, Outreach, and Awareness for Labor Trafficking Demonstration Program. The Lighthouse Demonstration Program’s goal is to directly fund organizations that will build, expand, and sustain organizational and community capacity to deliver services to adult and minor, foreign national individuals who have experienced labor trafficking as defined by the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000, as amended, through the provision of direct services, assistance, and referrals. A foreign national includes individuals who are not lawful permanent residents, parolees, refugees, or asylees. Under the Lighthouse Demonstration Program the following activities are required: 1) provision of comprehensive, culturally and linguistically responsive case management to foreign national individuals who have experienced labor trafficking; 2) outreach efforts to increase identification foreign national individuals who have experienced labor trafficking; 3) deliver training to service providers and engage with community partners; and 4) conduct public awareness activities for the local community and organizations that may encounter victims of labor trafficking. The Lighthouse Demonstration Program is informed by a whole family approach that focuses equally and intentionally on services and opportunities for clients and their immediate family members living within their households. OTIP encourages the establishment of community partnerships to address the needs of survivors, meaningful engagement of foreign national individuals who have experienced labor trafficking, and the hiring of qualified professionals that reflect the communities being served in all project implementation strategies under the Lighthouse Demonstration Program. Under the Lighthouse Demonstration Program, there is a 12-month project implementation period for the prime recipient to facilitate optional partnerships, on-board new staff, and develop service protocols specific to foreign nationals who have experienced labor trafficking. However, clients must be served during the 12-month project implementation period.