We will get started now with our last Panel Discussion of the day. This panel is titled a discussion on the department of justice grant opportunities for fiscal year 18 and identifying gaps for possible fiscal year 19 programs. This is the panel where you all get to hear how the department is putting its money where its mouth is when it comes to Human Trafficking. Our panel will be moderated today by the honorable beth a. Williams. Beth was sworn in as assistant attorney general on august 21st, 2017, after unanimous confirmation by the United States senate. As a assistant attorney general for the office of legal policy, she served as the primary policy adviser to the United States attorney general and the Deputy Attorney general. And as the chief regulatory officer here at the department. Prior to becoming the assistant ag, miss williams is a litigation and appellate partner at a National Law Firm where her practice focused on complex commercial, securities and First Amendment litigation. From 2005 to 2006, miss williams served as special counsel to the United States Senate Committee on the judiciary where she assisted with the confirmation of chief justice john g. Roberts jr. And associate Justice Samuel a. Alito jr. To the United States supreme court. Miss williams graduated from Harvard College magna cum laude and earned her law degree from harvard law school. She served there as executive editor of the harvard journal of law and Public Policy and i turn it over now to the assistant attorney general for legal policy, beth williams. Thanks so much, patrick. On behalf of the office of legal policy, i want to thank the attorney general, the Deputy Attorney general, and especially associate attorney general the associate rachel brand for their leadership on this. And on behalf of all, im proud to be working with the Department Leadership to take concrete steps to fight Human Trafficking. Today im very happy to be here with this final panel, which will be discussing the department of justice grant opportunities. The department is committed to funding innovative and successful approaches to combatting Human Trafficking and to supporting survivors. In fiscal year 2017, the department made 47 million available to help trafficking survivors, and we hope to make more Funds Available this year. Our panel today will discuss some of the grant opportunities that the department of justice is offering for fiscal year 2018. The panel is also planning to explore additional areas that could benefit from funding for upcoming grant year programs and i know is looking forward to hearing from you during question and answer. Im proud to introduce our panelists. I will introduce each panelist briefly. Our first panelist on my right is rob chapman, the Deputy Director for Community Policing advancement in the Departments Office of Community Oriented policing services or cops. He overseas the cops Office Training and Technical Assistance and Community Policing demonstration project portfolios. Prior to joining the cops office in 1996, he helped with Technical Assistance and legislative and Government Affairs for the Police Executive research forum, a Membership Organization of Law Enforcement executives. Mr. Chapman holds a ba in Political Science from West Virginia university, and a masters in government from Johns Hopkins university. Next to me is katie sullivan, the principle Deputy Director of dojs office on violence against women, or ovw. Prior to joining the office of violence against women, she served for 11 years as a judge in the Fifth District judicial court. She worked to develop procedures and policies to ensure victims rights in her courtroom. She created the fifth judicial districts first dui court and also created a separate drug court to address her communitys ongoing needs. In 2016, she was named the fifth judicial district judge of the year and miss sullivan received her undergraduate degree from Syracuse University and jd from george washington. And finally, to my left, is mary thomas. Miss thomas is the director of policy in dojs office of Justice Programs where she formulates policy regarding how to support and partner with federal, state, local and tribal Law Enforcement and justice entities to reduce and prevent crime. Prior to joining doj, miss thomas was the general counsel at the Florida Department of elder affairs, and served as an assistant general counsel to the governor of florida. Miss thomas holds a law degree from Florida State university and a masters of law degree from the university of miami. I am very pleased to welcome our panelists and i would like to start by asking each of our panelists briefly to discuss the work of their office, and the grant opportunities that are available. Why dont we start with rob. Ill kick things off. Thank you so much, beth. Most importantly i want to take a minute to thank all the summit attendees. It has been a tremendous opportunity for us to hear about your important work and powerful stories. It is opportunities like this that allows us to i think at the federal level better tailor our resources so that theyre they have the most impact and provide the most value in those resources as much as possible. So thank you for the chance to be here and listen to your stories. The office of Community Oriented policing services is a component within the department of justice. Many people may be more familiar with what were commonly referring to, which is the cops office. We have a primary mission of advancing Community Policing in the nations state, local and tribal Law Enforcement agencies across the country. We do this in a number of ways, but primarily through providing resources, through grants and training and Technical Assistance, directly to state and local Law Enforcement practitioners and agencies so they can incorporate Community Policing principles in their crime Violence Reduction efforts. We Community Policing is found under the premise that when police and communities collaborate, theyre much more effective than addressing the crime problems that exist in their communities. They can make their communities that much more safer. There is really 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 always going to be vital, very vital to addressing this problem. However, another thing i think we also heard over and over is the Important Role that partners play, folks like service providers, faithbased community, the advocacy community, the business and private sector, really in helping to improve sort of the range of tools that can be brought to bear to address Human Trafficking. So thats really what were trying to accomplish at the cops office through grants and other resources that we provide. We want to emphasize, i want to take a moment to emphasize, Community Policing didnt start with the federal government. We didnt invent Community Policing. It has been four if not five decades long in the making, something that grew out of practice at the state and local level. We also dont prescribe the way in which it should be implemented through our grants and resources that we deliver to state and locals. Really it is most effective when it is tailored to best meet the needs of states and localities in the communities that they serve. And so in that manner we have tailored our grants and resources and our 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 more about this throughout the panel. But the first is, of course, through our Grant Programs. We also have a pretty significant Technical Assistance portfolio which ill discuss in a bit. We provide training opportunities, both through more traditional kinds of training courses that we offer, either directly to Law Enforcement agencies or on a more regional approach through 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 their 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 providing Law Enforcement practitioners with the information they need about cutting edge practices and innovative approaches to address a wide range of issues including Human Trafficking and ill talk more about that throughout the panel. I just want to specifically introduce our programs before i turn it over to katharine. Our First Program and it really is our Centerpiece Program with the cops office is our 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 to the tune of about 129,000 cops office funded Law Enforcement officers which are practicing in communities throughout the nation. We continue to have an ongoing relationship with those agencies, so it affords us a really valuable opportunity, we think, to not only work with them through our grants, but through other i was ways of pro resources. We have a tribal Resource Grant Program where we support tribal Law Enforcement hiring and training. A Community Policing Development Program where we provide seed funding to local Law Enforcement agencies, to incubate innovative practices which can be taken to a larger scale and evaluated through other parts of the justice department. This really allows us to quickly fund innovative efforts and allow agencies to experiment with cutting edge practices in a way that can really infuse localities with the best possible strategies that are out there. We also seek to take advantage of the lessons that are learned through the implementation of those efforts. And package them in a way that is easily consumed for other practitioners across the country and that leads to the fourth our fourth area where we provide resources and thats through providing 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 that what we have been doing over the last couple of years is more heavily investing in focusing our our the range of resources and Grant Programs on Human Trafficking and so really try to ramp up the resources that are available for Law Enforcement to take advantage of to focus on Human Trafficking. I think what were looking to do, starting in this fiscal year, fiscal year 18, is to step up our game and, again, just wrapping back to my appreciation for the opportunity to kind of hear not only what is working great and some innovative examples, but looking for i wwa to provide valuable resources to state and locals so they can expand on the best of whats taking place out there. So thanks again. I look forward to talking to you throughout this panel. Thank you. Thats great. Thanks, rob. Now maybe katie can talk a little bit about the grant opportunities for the office of violence against women. I first want to say, it is a true privilege to be here today. And to have had the opportunity to sit throughout all of the panels and listen to all of the different stake holders in the trafficking Human Trafficking realm and hear common themes. And it can really provide us direction Going Forward. We heard all day about the importance to all of our stake holders about collaboration, communication, and then, of course, resources. Which is what this panel really is about. I want to thank, of course, associate attorney general rachel brand, she provides fabulous leadership in this issue. Her staff, Rachel Parker and everyone who worked so hard to bring this event together, of course, thank you, beth. I want to make another huge word of gratitude and that is to the survivors. And 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 of violence against women . I do want to tell you just a little bit about the office. It was created by the violence against womens act, which was passed in 1994 as part of the crime bill. It addresses its mission as to provide federal leadership in development of our nations capacity to reduce four very specific crimes. Sex assault, Domestic Violence, dating violence, and stalking. While im speaking, i may talk about the four crimes. This is a very Prescriptive Program that is that we follow the violence against womens act and we are basically instructed that we are to address these four crimes. Our Grant Programs since 1995, we have awarded 7. 6 billion in grants and cooperative agreements. And in 2017, the office of violence against women made 751 awards equaling approximately 450 million. Our Grant Programs Fund 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 Victim Services. So when we look at this collaboration issue and bringing everyone to the table, office of violence against women, hopefully can help with that. There is a considerable intersection between our four crimes and Human Trafficking quite obviously. One of our 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 trafficked by an intimate partner. We can really see a Cross Section here with our four crimes. The office on violence against women has made trafficking a priority in 2018 in line with the attorney generals commitment to the successful prosecution of perpetrators of trafficking and to help the survivor be safe and whole again as associate attorney general brand talked about in the beginning of our day. We prioritize trafficking in our discretionary grants. We also support grantees and organizations that help create awareness. Were always creating awareness in our grantees and a common theme that we heard today is helping particularly the courts, Law Enforcement, and Victim Service providers in identifying who is a victim of Human Trafficking. When someone comes into a program, comes into court, has their first meeting with Law Enforcement, as has been said over and over today, they may not actually present in the beginning as a trafficking victim. So it is really crucial in Going Forward that we help these agencies and the people out there 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. Our Legal Assistance provides Legal Assistance to victims. This is needed especially 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 services being available. And those grants try to close those gaps. Our consolidated Youth Program supports projects that provide services for youth involved in the four crimes and specifically sex trafficking. And our Tribal Sexual Assault Services Program does provide for projects. We did just have one of our grants actually 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 did identify trafficking projects. And so that is very exciting that people are starting to see the real need and focus on this particular issue. Obviously in 2019, what were really 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 and in the courts. And website is on the department of justice and obviously office on violence against women. Thank you. Thank you, katie. And now mary thomas is going to talk a little bit about her work for office of Justice Programs and the types of grants that are available with regard to Human Trafficking through your office. Thank you, beth. It is a real pleasure to be here today and we really appreciate the leadership of president trump, attorney general sessions, associate attorney general brand, and all of the leadership at doj. And just want to take a quick moment to thank all of you for the good work that 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, deposit upon legislative appropriations, we are looking to fund approximately 50 million in antitrafficking work. We currently have 189 active antitrafficking grants totalling 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 that are located all throughout the United States. And through the task forces, they must have one Law Enforcement component and one Victim Services component, and they provide a coordinated, Community Wide response to identifying victims of trafficking, serving them, and also investigating and prosecuting trafficking cases. With regard to Victim Services, ojp funds providers who 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 assistance, 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 really innovative, it provides comprehensive services to youth victims and in this program a youth victim is actually paired with a survivor mentor and a whole Case Management team. And that victim is given individual services that are really tailored to that individual victim. We also 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 there is 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 victims of trafficking. We often have seen that there are Domestic Violence shelters that perhaps want to get into serving trafficking victims, but they do not have the specificized capacity to be able to do that. So our training and Technical Assistance will give them the training they that 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 the impact of Human Trafficking. And all of these issues have, again, been very, very 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 issues in order to develop better prevention, intervention, and Victim Services strategies. Ojp firmly believes 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 focus on needs identified by the antitrafficking field. And some of these needs are increasing the capacity to identify and serve labor trafficking victims, and also focusing on evidencebased and traumainformed Mental Health services, including Substance Abuse treatment. So we have a wide variety of programs at ojp and that was just a quick run through of some of the programs that we have, but i encourage you to visit our website, ojp. Gov. We have full list of our programs and when our solicitations open, they will be up there as well. We at ojp, like you, remain firmly committed to the fight against Human Trafficking and we want to be your partners. Thank you. Thank you, mary. Thank you, all of you. I think when people think of the department of justice, they often focus on the prosecutions, their minds go directly to that. And then obviously a huge and crucial part of our mission. But one of things that kept coming up throughout the day is that we cannot help solve this problem without our Community Partners, both the state and local and tribal Law Enforcement agencies and also our Community Partners and so he wi was very y to be sitting on this panel to talk about the help and the assistance that were given to our Community Partners. On that note, i was wondering if you all could talk a little bit about other than the grant funding, what other resources or training do your components have available for first time grantees, groups that are looking to apply for first time who may want to help with the Human Trafficking problem. So we actually have several resources on our website, ojp. Gov. We have training for what you should think about prior to applying for a grant, how to apply for a grant, and then afterwards with grant management. Not only on our main ojp website, but also on our components, the bureau of justice assistance. We have a video on how to apply for a grant. People might think it is only big entities that get grants. But last fiscal year we gave a grant to an entity that had five pe paid individuals. Our grants go to a wide variety of organizations. We actually we have a mandatory new grantee orientation where our staff goes and perhaps other Technical Assistance trainers will also go and will have a grantee orientation which is fabulous, and then also have a tremendous amount of information on our website about how to apply for the grant, what to think of, and things like that. There is i have to say that i can speak and im sure knowing mary and rob that it is true for them as well, the staff at the office on violence against women are among the most dedicated staff that i have certainly ever had the pleasure to work with in my professional career. Theyre tireless. They are tireless in making sure the needs are met and our grantees are successful. So one of the programs i refer to is our Community Policing Development Program, the eligibility requirements are very broad. In fact, well accept applications from service providers, advocacy groups, faithbased organizations, Law Enforcement organizations, educational entities, really anyone who has an innovative idea for a way in which they can partner with the local Law Enforcement agency to advance a topic to address a local crime or Public Safety issue. One example was an award we made to the Texas Department of safety. They had worked with the fbis Behavioral Analysis unit to develop training on the interdiction of trafficked children. We wanted to very popular and successful training there within the state of texas. We saw an opportunity to replicate what was a local solution and provided seed money to fund the Texas Department of Public Safety to go out on the road and do ten train the trainers sessions in jurisdictions across the country. One way were able to invest a little bit of seed money to incubate innovative ideas and to support its replication is through Community Policing development. I would encourage everyone to look at that solicitation when it comes out, which will hopefully be in the spring. The other programs i want to mention is to double back to our hiring program. The eligibility for that is for local Law Enforcement agencies, however, critical component of that application is the development of key and strategic partnerships, based on the crime and Public Safety topic that the agency has identified. I want to make two notes on our hiring program. We are we have elevated the importance of Human Trafficking within that application over recent years. Were looking to do so in a more fundamental way so we can really impress upon applicants the importance of considering their own challenges related to Human Trafficking. And if it is a fit for them, to apply for Cops Hiring Program funds to address their local human trae trafficking issues, concert with other partners they identify as being appropriate, relevant and important. Last fiscal year we funded 13 Law Enforcement agencies for a total of 62 sworn officer positions. About 8 million to that were devoted directly to address Human Trafficking within those jurisdictions. The other sort of nonfunded resource i want to quickly highlight is one that were very excited about and it relates to our collaborative reform initiative. Im not sure folks are familiar with this. We spent a number of months redesigning this initiative so that it is much more responsive to the needs of the field. It recognizes the importance of local accountability and control in terms of allowing the agency to really address what their own local needs are, using the Technical Assistance resources that we have to provide. As importantly as any of the factor, were using a by the field, for the field approach. We had some partners, were going to be partnering with International Association of chiefs of police, the fraternal order of police, major cities chiefs, a number of other National Stake holder organizations, which will allow us to work through those National Organizations to deliver the very best tailored Technical Assistance to states and localities. That is something were going to be working with our partners to make sure those resources, those Technical Assistance resources are prominently offered and promoted to state and local practitioners, we can start to infuse jurisdictions across the country with the very best thinking on how to address this issue. Thats great to hear. I think for some of the Community Organizations and for the local and state and tribal Law Enforcement it may seem daunting to apply for a federal grant, but i think 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 and the community where it can most help Human Trafficking victims and to help stop Human Trafficking. So to that end, do you have any examples of organizations that have become grantees recently that have been success storys . There is yes, actually. It is exciting because there are there are so many but in this particular in kentucky and jefferson county, kentucky, an organization we funded provides stable housing, and intensive comprehensive support services to survivors and young adults that have been sexually trafficked. So that as i was listening to all of the panels over this, and particular in particular the two panels ago in talking about having some housing specifically for trafficking victims, we are funding a program that has been very successful with in that arena. And they, you know, these victims need it all, they need the housing, the employment help, other services, Substance Abuse, Mental Health and we need to make sure that all, you know, the trauma informed treatment and the care for their trauma issues which go into everything in their lives. This is a great example of a very successful program. I want to make sure we have time for questions. So well do one more question and then if anybody has any questions, you can raise maybe well take questions right now. If anybody has any. Bill bernstein. We had grants, but my question is to not loud enough my question is to suggest funding for Something Else in the government. It has been a long day, it is cold outside, i have strange ideas. But, you know, one of the things we have seen, one thing we have seen from the beginning, we have been working with traffic people for 16 or 17 years, and i hear this in the panels today, everybody mentioned this, people trafficked dont selfidentify. So we know that it is very difficult to uncover cases of Human Trafficking. We have seen from the beginning how important Law Enforcement is in uncovering these cases. And i remember the first meeting of grantees there was a discussion or rather im thinking that Law Enforcement needed to be involved and the collaborative grant started. And they have been reevaluated over the years and looked at. What we see is that some places it works very well, Law Enforcement does the trafficking well, collaborates well. In other places the money gets directed to people doing work they were already doing, maybe. Were fortunate in dallas that we have good agents doing the work. The one thing we have seen over the years, it never has been institutionalized. And some of us believe thats really crucial to uncover the vast number of trafficking cases that are there. Are people assigned to this from time to time, may not be a department that stays doing that work . I know thats really the goal of ovc funding. But still a little bit amorphous. I know that this is also something ive been told cant be done that that funding cant go to federal agencies. If it did, if there were federal agents tasked specifically with working uncovering trafficking cases, it is my i say uncovering, i dont even mean arresting, prosecuting or convicting, i mean uncovering. If that were if that was their task and they were rewarded for that, i really believe you would see a thousand cases within a month. But would have to be it is not an easy thing to do. I understand that. Thats why im throwing it out there. It is something that i believe from the beginning is really needed. That would be a way of institutionalizing and having an agent who is funding this specifically to do this work. Again, we have seen remarkable results in dallas, agents focused on labor trafficking, sex trafficking. But from around the country, i hear things like this. Now, thats a great point. I think some of the earlier panelists talk about the act teams which the department has, which are focused, you know, some of the u. S. Attorneys office apply to have these act teams and these are interagency teams, departments of labor, department of homeland security, hhs, doj, Interdisciplinary Teams trying to do what youre talking about, going out into the communities and uncovering this. Im wondering if anybody else can talk about ways to institutionalize what were doing, what you all are doing. Funding. I just one simple lesson we have learned at the cops office over the years is that the lessons that can be learned at the local level and then translated for much broader audience often have the most power. Rather than us imposing a model for state and locals to implement, if we can provide seed funding for folks to experiment on their own, to develop the important partnerships and relationships and stake holders that are relevant and appropriate and based on the local context, if we can provide sort of that the simple resources whether it be training or Technical Assistance or grant funding, and then get out of the way and let them do the good work, and then we might have a role in sort of documenting their efforts in a way athat is to make it translatable to the rest of the field. Thats been one approach i think we have tried to adopt at the cops office. I agree. Jerry hague with the porch light, one more child out of florida. One more thing we have seen be extremely effective in working with child victims of sex trafficking and young adults is survivor mentors and i know there is a number of grants for employment of survivor meant wod look toward grants for those survivor mentors as we have a number on staff and they have become stretched as well as the triggers that theyre going through and being able to help victims. To be able to offer additional resource and support particularly for those survivor mentors. Thats great. Survivor mentors. I think thats a great idea. Thats a great idea. What i found particularly intriguing about the program that we have with child victims, there is a survivor mentor who theyre paired with. Thats a unique relationship they have. Only someone who has really been through that traumatic experience can really understand what the victim is facing. I think thats a great idea. And to that end, you know, if there are if there are needs that are not being met or covered by our current grants, how can members of the public help identify gaps in need of funding . Are there ways for your different components for members of the public to do that . I know, again, being a bit repetitive, but pick up the phone and call our office. The information is right on the front page of the department of justice obw. And we have staff as i said who are truly dedicated to this issue and to assisting victims and we want very much to hear public feedback. That being said, you know, our grants are prescriptive as i said. Were limited by statute in terms of who we can give to, because it is all just laid out in the statute. However, we do have discretionary grants and were always looking at ways to use that discretion in order to fill gaps and better serve the needs. The other thing that office on violence against women creates by annually as a conferral report where we solicit in a formal way feedback from all of ur stake holders, and that report is on our website, it is given to congress and it is on our website for anyone to see. So feedback is vital to making sure that needs are met. And i agree with rob in terms of, you know, we need to learn from locally i think what kids overwhelming is how we disseminate the information, how we are able to take a project that is working very well here, tweak it a little bit, and so that it works over here. And this country. And thats why conferences and forums like this are absolutely vital. We have got to keep talking and communicating and i think that that thats how we have success. If i could just add, it is never from i believe from all of our perspective, it is never too early or too late in the funding cycle to provide us with input. We are all sort of searching for that. We try to get out of washington and out into communities where the true work is being done to hear firsthand. But in terms of process, whether it is in terms of the substantive direction and the focus of our programs, it is never too early or too late in the funding cycle. So please share any thoughts or information we have, we have information on our website, or ways to collect that information. Our website is www. Cops. Usdoj. Gov. And the other thing i would say is that we in terms of the cops Office Funding cycle, were hoping to release all of our solicitation starting this spring sometime. So, now is the perfect time to be having these conversations and we look forward to this being the beginning of the dialogue. And we, as i said, in my comments, were constantly engaging with the field, and those who are interested to learn about what you think works in our programs and what doesnt work and what the gaps are. And were actually planning a series of round table listening sessions to get more input, not only from our grantees, but others in the field and as katie said, as well, we have on our website we have a contact us tab with a number and an 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 the ones on the front lines who can tell us what the needs actually are. Thank you very much. I want to thank our panelists and also i want to thank all of you who are here. I know a lot of you are working on this issue every day. Youre working with survivors, youre working in the communities, youre working in Law Enforcement to stop human trafbing. We very much appreciate it. We appreciate you being here today. Thank you. [ applause ]
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