Sec. 113. Human Trafficking Victims Reintegration Through Employment Program
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For the purpose described in subsection (b), the Secretary of Health and Human Services may carry out a Human Trafficking Victims Reintegration Through Employment Program. The purpose of the Program shall be to prevent the re-exploitation of eligible individuals who have been removed from trafficking situations, by assisting such individuals to integrate or reintegrate into society through the attainment of employment skills necessary to achieve self-sufficiency. Services provided and funded by the Program shall include— enrollment and participation in— basic education, including literacy education and English as a second language education; job-related skills training; vocational and certificate programs; and programs for attaining a regular high school diploma or its recognized equivalent; life-skill training programs, including management of personal finances, self-care, and parenting classes; résumé creation and review; interview coaching and counseling; assistance with expungement of criminal records when such records are for nonviolent crimes that were committed as a consequence of the eligible individual’s victimization; assistance with enrollment in college or technical school; and other programs and services that help eligible individuals to achieve self-sufficiency.
Eligible individuals may receive services through the Program for a period of not more than three years. Subject to the availability of appropriations, the Secretary of Health and Human Services shall enter into cooperative agreements with one or more eligible organizations to carry out this section. In this section: The term eligible individual means a domestic or foreign victim of human trafficking who is eligible to receive services under section 107 of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 ( 22 U.S.C. 7105 ), as amended by section 115 of this Act.
The eligible organization means a service provider meeting the following: With respect to a service provider for trafficking victims served by the Program who are not United States citizens, the provider has— expertise in serving foreign-born victims of human trafficking; a national presence with local reach and strong local connections; and experience in utilizing national networks to serve victims and collecting data from local programs. With respect to a service provider for trafficking victims served by the Program who are United States citizens, the provider has experience working with trafficking victims who are United States citizens, including those who have been identified as the victims of commercial sexual exploitation as children.
The term Program means the Human Trafficking Victims Stabilization and Reintegration Through Employment Program under this section. The term Secretary means the Secretary of Health and Human Services. In allocating amounts made available for cooperative agreements under this section between victims of human trafficking who are United States citizens and those who are not, the Secretary shall take into account the eligibility of victims for other Federal, State, and local services and funding.
Section 113(b) of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 ( 22 U.S.C. 7110(b) ) is amended by striking To carry out the purposes of section 107(b) and inserting To carry out the purposes of section 107(b) of this Act and section 114 of the . Frederick Douglass Trafficking Victims Prevention and Protection Reauthorization Act of 2017
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