Williams. Sworn in after a confirmation by the United States senate. As assistant attorney general, she serves as the primary and as the chief regulatory officer here at the department. Prior to becoming the assistant ag she was a litigation and pel ant partner where she focused on First Amendment litigation. From 20005 to 2006 severed as special counsel and assisted with a and associate justice sam mall junior to the United StatesSupreme Court. She graduate from the Harvard College with a degree in history and literature and earned her law degree from harvard law school. As the harvard journal of law and Public Policy and i turn it over to beth williams. Thank you so much patrick. On behalf of ft office of legal policy, i want to thank the attorney general, the and associate attorney general and rachel for their leadership on this t. Im proud to be working with the department to take steps to fight Human Trafficking. Im happy to with here with this panel discussing the department of justice grant opportunities. The department is committed to funding innovative and successful approaches to combat Human Trafficking. In fiscal year 2017, the department made 47 million available to help trafficking survivors and we hope to make more available this year. Our panel will discuss the grants opportunities that the department of justice is offering for fiscal year 2018 and exploring additional areas that could benefit from funding for upcoming grant year programs and i know is looking forward to hear from you during question and answer. Im proud to sboer dues the panelists, our first one is rob chatman, the Deputy Director for policing advancement, Community Oriented policing services. He over cease the training and Technical Assistance and Community Policing portfolios. Prior to joining the kops office he assisted with and managed policing research, assistance and Government Affairs for the forum a Membership Organization of Law Enforcement executives. Holds a ba and a masters from john hop kins university. Next to me is katie sullivan, the principal Deputy Director on violence against women or ovw. She served for 11 years a z a judge in the 5th district county clark in colorado. Over 45 criminal and civil cases and worked to develop procedures and policies to ensure victim rights in her courtroom. Pleaded the first dui court and a separate drug court to address her communities on going needs. In 2016 named the 5th judicial judge of the year and went to syracuse and her jd from ga washington. And to my left. Mary thomas. Drelk tor of policy in doj policy of programs. Federal and state local and tribal Law Enforcement and justice entities to reduce and prevent crime. Proo irto doj she was the general counsel at Elder Affairs and served as the assistant to the general in florida. A masters of law degree from the university of miami. Im pleased to welcome our panelists and i would like to start by asking you heech to describe the work of their office and the grant opportunities available. Lets start with rob. Ill kick things off. Most importantly i want to take a minute to thank you all of the attendes. Its a tremendous opportunity to hear about your work and stories. It is opportunities like this to allow us to better tailor our resources to to have the most impact and provide the most value for those resources. So thank you for the chance to be here to hear your stories. A component within the department of justice. Many people may be more familiar with what were commonly referred to which is the cops office. We have a primary mission to advance Community Policing and we do this in a number of ways primarily through providing resources through grants and training and Technical Assistance directly to state and local Law Enforcement practitioners and agencies to incorporate policing in their efforts. We Community Policing is founded under the premise when police and communities collaborate they are effective at addressing the crime problems existing in their communities and make their communities safer. Theres a coproduction of Public Safety that occurs. Obviously, and we heard this over and over today, within the Human Trafficking realm, investigations and prosecutions are vital. Very vital to addressing this problem, however the other thing we heard, is the Important Role that partners play, folks like service providers, faith based community, the advocacy community, business and private sector. Helping to improve sort of the range of tools that can be brought to bear to address Human Trafficking. Thats what we are trying to accomplish through grants and other resources we provide. We we want to emphasize, i want to take a moment to emphasize that Community Policing didnt start with the federal government. We didnt invent it. It has been at least five decades long in the making. Something that grew out of practice at the state and local level. We dont prescribe the way it should be implemented through our grants and resources. Its most effective when tailored to best meet the needs of states and localities and the communities they serve. So in that manner, weve tailored our grants and resources and programs to reflect the importance not only of providing the resources but doing so in a way that best meets the unique local needs that exist among our grantees. We work to support state and local Law Enforcement predominantly in four different ways and ill talk about this more throughout the panel. The first is, of course, through our Grant Programs and we also have a pretty significant Technical Assistance portfolio which ill discuss in a bit. We provide training opportunities through more traditional kinds of training courses that we offer. Either directly to Law Enforcement agencies or on a more regional approach. We also offer increasing number of courses online that in particular, can be supportive of agencies that dont have the funding to send officers out to training at another location. Finally, we have developed over the years a pretty significant set of resources that are solely devoted to to providing Law Enforcement practitioners with the information they need about cutting edge practices and innovative approaches to address a wide range of yieshs including Human Trafficking. I want to specifically introduce our programs before i turn it over to catherine. Our First Program really is the centerpiece program, cops hiring program. It really is sort of the most fundamental way that we have a relationship with Law Enforcement agencies across the country. Over the years we funded over 13,000 Law Enforcement agencies so. To the thousands of cops our office funded Law Enforcement officers. We have an ongoing relationship with the agencies so it affords us a valuable opportunity to work through grants and other ways of providing resources like training, Technical Assistance and providing guide books and other resources to them. We have the resources grant program, tribal Law Enforcement training. We provide seed funding to local offices and agencies to intubate innovative practices that can be taken to a larger scale and evaluated through other parts. And allows us to quickly fund innovative efforts and experiment with cutting edge practices in a way that can infuse localities with the best possible strategies that are out there. We also seek to take advantage of the Lessons Learned through implementation of the efforts and package them in a way that is easily consumed across the country and we provide resources through guide books and other materials to Law Enforcement agencies across the country. As i wrap up here, the initial part of the panel, i want to say what weve been doing over the last couple of years is heavily investing in focussing our the range of resources and Grant Programs on Human Trafficking and so we try to ramp up the Resources Available for Law Enforcement agencies to take advantage of to focus on Human Trafficking. I think were looking to do starting in this fiscal year 18 is to step up our game and for the appreciation of the opportunity to hear what is working great and innovative examples and looking for ways we can try to provide viable resources to state and locals. So they can expand on the best of what is taking place out there. So thank again and i look forward to talking to you throughout this panel. Thats great. Thank you rob. Maybe katie can talk about the grant opportunities for the violence against women. I want to say it is a true privilege to be here today and have the opportunity to sit throughout all of the panels and listen to all of the different stake holders in the Human Trafficking realm and hear these common themes and can provide us direction Going Forward. We heard all day about the importance all of our stakehole holders about collaboration, communication and resources. Which is what this panel is about. I want to thank associate, attorney general rachel bran. She provides fabulous leadership in this issue. Her staff, Rachel Parker and everybody who worked hard to bring this event together. Of course, thank you beth. And to the survivors that did speak today and speak at these types of events all over the country, they provide our most valuable asset and that is hope. And i think that a special thank you to them. What is the office and violence against women . I do want to tell you a little bit about the office. It was created by the violence against womens act passed, in 1994 as part of the crime bill. It addresses its mission is to provide federal leadership in development of our nations capacity to reduce four very specific crimes. Sex assault, dough mess stick violence and dating violence and stalking. I may just talk about the four crimes, it is a Prescriptive Program that we follow the violence against womens act and we are basically instructed that we are to address these four crimes. Our Grant Programs oh, since 1995 we have awarded 7. 6 billion in grants and cooperative agreements and in 2017, the office of violence against women made 750 awards equaling approximately 450 million. Our Grant ProgramsFund Projects that support victims and or hold perpetrators accountable. We support projects that deal with courts, Law Enforcement, prosecution, probation, as well as organizations that provide victims services. So when we look at this collaboration issue in bringing everyone to the table, office of violence against women hopefully, can help with that. There is a considerable intersection between our forecrimes and Human Trafficking plate obviously. One of the grantees recently reported that of the 15 Human Trafficking victims that their program dealt with, they served within six months. So it was 15 within six months. 11 were trafficked by an intimate partner. So we can see a crosssection here with our forecrimes. The office on violence against women made trafficking a priority in 2018 in line with the attorneys general commitment to the successful prosecution of perpetrators trafficking and to help the survivor be safe and whole again as associate general attorney talked about. And our grants we support grantees and organizations that help create awareness. We are creating awareness in our grantees and again, a common theme we heard today is helping particularly the courts Law Enforcement and Victim Service providers in identifying who is it who is a victim of Human Trafficking. When somebody comes into a program, comes into court and has their first meeting with Law Enforcement and as has been said over and over again today, they may not present in the beginning as a trafficking victim. So it is crucial Going Forward that we help these agencies and the people in the field identify the victims. So office of violence against women, our efforts are very focused on that at this time. We do currently have five open solicitations briefly in our improving criminal justice response. These support criminal justice partners like Law Enforcement, prosecution in the courts and addressing the four crimes. The Legal Assistance for Victim Program provide Legal Assistance to victims. This is needed in the civil realm when we look at issues of custody, protection orders, visitation, divorce. This is an area where we really need to support our victims. Our rural Grant Programs, they just respond to the unique needs of victims in rural communities. Geography ends up being such an issue in terms of how people can respond and service is being available and those grants try to close those gaps. Our consolidated Youth Programs supporting projects that support youths and the four crimes and sex trafficking and the Services Program does provide four projects Offering Services for sex assault victims in the indianen country. We did just have one of our grants close prior to this event and it was our justice for Families Program that supports family courts, supervised visitation programs across the country. That did have a trafficking priority and what is really exciting is 62 out of approximately 62 of the 130 applicants identified trafficking projects. And so that is very exciting that people are seeing the real need and focus on this particular issue. Obviously, in 2019 what were excited about is using our experience from 2018 to get even better and bigger in this space as people are able to in the field who are able to identify trafficking Victims Office on violence against women will be focused to create more opportunities for services in the courts. Website is on the department of justice and obviously, office on violence against women. Thank you. Thank you and now mary thomas is going to talk about her work and the types of grants available. Thank you, beth. It is a real pleasure to be here today and we really appreciate the leadership of president trump, general bran and all of the leadership at doj and just wanted to take a quick moment to thank all of you for the good work you are doing and we at the office of Justice Programs or ojp as we call it are here to be your partners in the fight against Human Trafficking. So ojp manages the largest amount of federal funding dedicated to providing and enhancing direct services to victims of Human Trafficking in the United States. Last fiscal year, fiscal year 17. We funded approximately 47 million in Human Trafficking programs. And this fiscal year, dependent upon legislative appropriations, we are looking to fund approximately 50 million in antitrafficking work. We currently have 189 active antitrafficking grants totaling over 129 million. Ojps trafficking funding supports a wide variety of activities. From Victim Services, antitrafficking task forces, training and Technical Assistance and research and evaluation. So currently, ojp funds 29 multidisciplinary antitrafficking task forces located all throughout the United States. And through these task forces they must have one Law Enforcement component and one Victim Services component and they provide a coordinated communitywide response to identifying victims of trafficking, serving them and also investigating and prosecutoring trafficking cases. With regards to Victim Services, ojp funds providers to deliver a wide range of Vital Services all aimed at allowing victims to recover and thrive. And some of these Services Include legal services, Mental Health counseling including Substance Abuse treatment. Employment assistant, housing and many other areas. We also offer funding to youth victims of Human Trafficking. And i learned about one of our programs that is innovative providing comprehensive services to youth victims and in this program a youth victim is paired wd a survivor mentor and a Case Management team and services that are tailored to that individual victim. And we have several tribal specific Grant Programs. As all of you know, those of you in the antitrafficking field, it is very hard to identify trafficking victims and often we find theres not enough capacity to serve these victims. So ojp has invested significant funding in training and Technical Assistance to thousands of Law Enforcement, judges, prosecutors, Victim Service providers and many others in the trafficking field. And these training and Technical Assistance programs train individuals on how to identify victims of trafficking and how to refer them to appropriate services. Additionally, we work on building the capacity to serve victim offense trafficking. Weve often seen that there are dough mess stick violence shelters and they dont have the specialized capacity to do that. So our training and Technical Assistance will give them the training they need to be able to perform trauma informed services. With regard to research and evaluation, ojps National Institute of justice is currently funding ongoing Trafficking Research that will give us a better handle on the prevalence and impact on Human Trafficking and all of these issues have been hard to identify and quantify. For fiscal year 18, the National Institute of justice is exploring Funding Research that focuses on demand reduction, the grooming of traffickers and many other issue in order to develop better prevention, intervention and Victim Services strategies. Ojp firmly believes that those on the front lines, each and every day know most about what works and what doesnt work in our programming and any of the gaps that there are. And we are constantly seeking input from the field about our programs. In response to this input, ojps office of victims of crime is exploring a solicitation that funds innovative projects which focuses on the needs identified by the field and some of these needs are increasing the capacity to identify and serve labor trafficking victims and also focussing on evidencebased and trauma informed Mental HealthServices IncludingSubstance Abuse treatment. So we have a wide variety of programs at ojp and that was just a quick run xxx. I encourage you to visit our w website ojp. Gov and we have a full list of the programs and when the solicitations run, they will be up there as well. We at ojp like you are remain firmly committed to the fight against Human Trafficking, and we want the to be your partners. Thank you. Thank you, marian, and thank you all of you. I think that when people think of the department of skwus tis th justice, they focus on prosecution, and their mind go to that and this is a large and crucial part of the mission, but one of the things that kept coming up throughout the day is that we cannot help to solve this problem without our community problcommun partners of the community and tribal partners and so i am pleased to be pleased to be on the panel the to talk about that support. I was wondering on that note, if you could talk about other than the Grant Funding what other resour resources or training do yourle components have available for the first time grantees, groups looking to apply for the first time who may want to help with the human traffick problem . So we actually have several resources on the website ojp. Gov and we have training for what you should think about prior to applying for a grant, how to a apply for the grant and then afterwards with the grant management. And so not only on the main ojp website, but also on the component component, and the bureau of justice assistance and we have a video of how to apply for the grant and we have quite a few resource, and people may think it is big entities who get the grant, but in fact, last fisle cal year, we awarded a grant to a group that the had five paid individuals. So the grants go to a wide variety of organizations. That is terrific. We actually have a mandatory new grantee orientation where our staff goes and perhaps other Technical Assistance trainers will go to and will have a grantee orientation which is fabulous. And we have a e tremendous amount of insight on the grant proce process, and i can speak that knowing mary and rob that it is true for them as well the staff on violence against women are amongst the most dedicated staff that i have certainly ever had the pleasure to work with in my professional career, and they are tireless. They are tireless in making sure that the needs are met, and the grantees are successful. So one tof the programs they refer to is the policing program, and they are very broad, and accept applications are from the faithbased organizations and the Law Enforcement entities and anyone who has an innovative idea, and for them to advance the policing topic to advance to the crime and Public Safety issue, and one of the exam president s approximates that we have funded in previous years is to the Texas Department of Public Safety who had worked with the fbi Behavioral Analysis unit and to develop training on the intervention of trafficked children. We wanted to, and it was a popular and successful Training Program there in texas and we saw the opportunity to replicate a local solution, and provided the seed money to allow the Texas Department of Public Safety to go out on the road to do ten train the trainers sessions in jurisdictions across the country. So one way that we can invest a little bit of the seed money to incubate innovative ideas and also through the policing department, and so i would encourage you to look at the solicitation in the spring. The other programs that i want to mention is to double back to the hiring prole gram. The eligibility for that is to for local law are enforcement agencies, however a critical component of the application is key and critical strategic partn partnerships based on the crime and the safety project identified. So two notes on the hiring program. With we have elevated the importance of Human Trafficking within the application of recent r years, and we are looking to do so in a more even kind of fundamental way so that we can impress upon the applicants the importance of considering their own challenges related to Human Trafficking and if it is fit for them to apply for Program Funds to address their local Human Trafficking issues along and in concert with the stakeholders they identify as being important stakeholders to address the local issues. Those are two of the programs. Last fiscal year, we funded 15 Law Enforcement sworn officer positions to total about 8 million devoted directly to address Human Trafficking within those jurisdictions. And again, we are looking for ways to expand that impact in fiscal year 18 in the spring. The other sort of the nonfunded resource that i wanted to highlight is one that we are excited about which is relating to the clollaborate innishbtive that folks may not be familiar w. We have spent a number of months redesigning the initiative so it is much more reresponsive to the needs of the field, and recognizes the local accountability and control to l allow the agency to address what their own local needs are using the Technical Assistance resources that we have to provide. It is directly tied to crime and Public Safety goals, and as importantly as any of the factors, we are using a be by the field and for the field approach, and we know that we have had some of our partner, and not too much of a preview, but we will be partnering with the National Association of fraternal order of Police Chiefs and other National Stakeholder organizations to allow us to work through the National Organizations to deliver the very best tailored Technical Assistance to the states and the locality, and the Human Trafficking is obviously an important issue, and we hear it loud and clear, and something to work with our partners to see if those Technical Assistance resources are properly offered and offered to stake theholders to start to infuse the jurisdictions across the country with the very best thinking of this issue. That is great to hear. For some of the Community Organizations and for the local and the state and the tribal Law Enforcement, it may seem daunting to apply for the federal grant, but i speak for the panel when i say that we want to be getting this money out to the people who can best use it, and to the places in the community where it can most el help Human Trafficking victims and to help stop Human Trafficking. To the that end, do you have examples of the organizations that are grantees latetally that are real Success Stories . Actually, yes. It is exciting, because there are so many, but in this particular in kentucky n jefferson county, kentucky, an organization that refunded provides stable housing and intensive comprehensive support services to survivors and young adults that have been trafficked. So as i listen to panel, and if particular the two panels ago in talking about having some housing specifically for trafficking victims, we are funding a prole gram that has been very successful with in that arena, and so they, these victims need it all. They need the housing, and they need the employment help, and the other services such as Substance Abuse, Mental Health, and we need to make sure that all of the trauma informed treatment and the care for their trauma issues which go into everything in their live, and so this is a great example of a very successful program. So i want to leave and make sure the that you have some times for questions, and so we will do one more question and if you have questions, you can actually maybe we will take questions right now if anybody has any. All right. Bill bernstein with Mosaic Services in dallas. We have had both types of grant, but any question is not loud enough . Many question is to suggest funding for somebody else in the government. I know that it is a long day and cold outside so i have strange ideas, but you know, one of the thing we have seen and from the beginning is that we have been working with trafficking people for 16 or 17 years, and i hear it in the panels to daix and everybody has mentioned it that the people who are trafficked dont selfidentify. And we know it is u difficult to uncover the case of Human Trafficking, and we have seen from the beginning how important Law Enforcement is in uncovering the cases. I know that at the very first meeting of the grantees that Law Enforcement needed to be involve and the collaborate grants have been reevaluated over the years of the best way to do that and what we have seen is that some places, it works very well, and really doing well and collaborating well, and in some place, the money gets directed to do work that they were with doing already, and it is just very fortunate in dallas that at at least at the federal level we have fbi doing some good work, and a agents really doing the work. And one thing that we have seen over the years, again, it is not institutionalized, and some of us believe that it is crucial to uncover the vast number of trafficking cases that are there, and what i mean by that is institutionalized and people are assigned by this from time to time and may not be at the department staying to do that work, and so that is the goal that they will be seeing with the funding, but it is still a little bit of amorphous, and so that, this is also something that i have been told cant be done, and that the funding cant go to to federal agencies, but fit did, if there were federal agents that were tasked specifically with uncovering the trafficking cases, it is uncovering and i dont mean arresting or prosecuting or convict, but i mean uncovering. So if that is their task and they were rewarded for that, you would be seeing 1,000 cases within a month, but it has to be, and it is not an easy thing to do, and that is why i am throwing it out there. And so, that is something that i believe from the beginning that is really, really needed maybe, and this is a way of institutionalle iizing it, a to have an agent whose funding is specifically to do this work. Aga again, we have seen some remarkableb results with the latest in sex trafficking and i hear things like this. That is a great point, and i have heard the panel talk about to a a. C. T. Teams and some are focused on the u. S. Attorneys office to apply to the a. C. T. Teams which are divisions of homeland security, and j. J. S. And other disciplinary teams to do what you are talking about going out into the communities to uncovering this. Anyone else on the panel can talk about the ways of kind of institutionalalizing, you know, what we are doing, and what you all are doing. Funding. Just sort of one simple lesson at the c. O. P. S office is that Lessons Learned at the local level and broad eest agencies with with the most power to model how to use the resources whether it is and so that is the focus of the programs, and also, we are late in the funding cycle and please share any thoughts or information that we have, and information on the website or ways to collect that information and the website is www. Cos. Woj. Gov and the other thing that i would say is that in terms of the cops office we are hoping to release all of the solicitati solicitations, and so now is the perfect time to have the conversations and report the this being the beginning of the dialogue. And we as i said in my comments, we are constantly engaging with the field. And what is working in the programs and what the gp gaps and we are having a lis of round table series to get more information. As katy said on the website, we have a contact us tab with a number and email address and actually goes to a Customer Service center, so any feedback that you have, we really want to hear from you, because all of you are on the front lines to tell us what the needs actually are. And thank you very much. And i want to thank our panelist, and also thank all of you who are here, and working on this issue, and everyday. And so i am working in the s survivors and working in the community and Law Enforcement to stop Human Trafficking. We appreciate your being here today. Thank you. The task of going to the panelists will go to paula reed are and i have the high task of introducing paula reed. She covers journalistic affairs for the news and covering the justice and the Supreme Court for the network. She regularly appears on cbs this morning and cbs evening news. She is a graduate of villanova universitys law school, and she pa passed the bar exams in new jersey and pennsylvania. A and so paula is an attorney, and so i turn the it over. Yes, i am a recovering law r lawyer. And this is a topic that i am very excited to be at the important issue, and have the panelists take a few minutes to introduce themselves, and talk about this work, and specifically what kind of work they are doing. Andrea, i would like to start with you. Would you introduce yourself and talk to us about what brought you into the field and what you do day in, day out. Thank you. Thank you for having me