Runaway and Homeless Youth Program - Grantee Assessment

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Runaway and Homeless Youth Program - Grantee Assessment

OMB: 0970-0356

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The Runaway and Homeless Youth Training and Technical Assistance Center (RHYTTAC) and the Family and Youth Services Bureau (FYSB) are interested in learning about the status of human trafficking among RHY funded programs. Every day, our programs serve runaway and homeless youth who are victims or are at high-risk of becoming victims of sex and labor trafficking.

This assessment is voluntary and you will need 20-30 minutes to answers the questions below. The information provided will be kept private and will not be used to make funding decisions, or other grantee-specific decisions.


If you have any questions or experience any technical issues in completing this survey, please contact [email protected]

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  1. Name of the Agency



  1. City and State



  1. Type of Runaway and Homeless Youth Program (check all that apply)

  • Basic Center Program (BCP)

  • Street Outreach Program (SOP)

  • Transitional Living Program (TLP)

  • Maternity Group Homes (MGH)



  1. Does your program currently serve youth being trafficking in (check all that apply)

  • Sex

  • Labor



  1. Could you please describe where trafficked youth accessing your services are being trafficked? (check all that apply)

Street level trafficking

Trading sex/survival sex acts

  • Magazine crew

  • Farm labor

  • Pedaling/pan-handling crew

  • Forced drug dealing

  • Other (please specify)



  1. In your work with RHY, do you encounter youth victims of human trafficking? If so, how?. Please check all that apply

  • Street outreach

  • Referrals to our programs

  • Drop-in Center

  • Screening process

  • Other- please share



  1. In your work with RHY, do you prepare your staff to identify and respond to the needs of RHY victims of trafficking? If so, how?





  1. Could you identify some of the barriers that your programs encounter that are related to street based services, identification, and making referrals for RHY victims of sex and labor trafficking?



  1. What are some program approaches that your organization has integrated and you believe are working well with this population (i.e., screening techniques, prevention curriculum, harm reduction strategies, trauma-informed models)?



  1. Is your organization working in collaboration with community-based organizations, faith-based organizations, legal services, local schools, and /or federally supported taskforces to better serve and refer RHY victims of trafficking? If yes, can you share the name of the some of your partners and/or taskforces that are working with you?



  1. Does your program utilize specific screening and assessment tools or strategies to determine if the youth accessing services are victims of sex and/or labor trafficking?- If yes, could you please share some of these tools and strategies used in your program?



  1. Does your program currently provide tailored services for RHY victims of human trafficking (i.e., shelter/transitional housing services, specific referrals for trafficked youth). If yes, please describe these services.



  1. If you program has contacted the National Human Trafficking Hotline, was the contact related to (check all that apply)





  • Suspected/possible trafficking in your service area

  • RHY victim of trafficking seeking additional support services

  • Request resources and technical materials

  • Participate in webinars or e-learning courses related to human trafficking

  • Other (please specify)



  1. Does your organization integrate human trafficking prevention into programmatic activities? If so, how?



  1. Does your program actively participate in human trafficking taskforces, coalitions, or multidisciplinary teams?

  • Yes

  • No

Please share details (i.e., my community doesn’t have a human trafficking task force, I’m not

aware of any local human trafficking coalition or multidisciplinary team)



  1. What are the areas of training or technical assistance that would be most helpful to build your program capacity on human trafficking and its intersection with RHY?















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