Frederick Douglass Trafficking Victims Prevention and Protection Reauthorization Act of 2025

This bill renews and updates federal anti-trafficking efforts. It boosts school-based prevention by prioritizing grants for school districts in areas with high child trafficking, especially those that partner with nonprofits, law enforcement, and tech or social media companies. Programs must train teachers, staff, parents, and K–12 students in age‑appropriate, trauma‑informed ways, use proven methods, and be easy to share and adapt online. The focus includes stopping online grooming and child sexual abuse materials. The Health and Human Services Department must also publish yearly reports (starting 540 days after the law takes effect) on who received grants, how many people were trained, what changed in knowledge, and how many potential victims and at‑risk students were identified, including data on homeless, foster, child‑welfare‑involved, and runaway youth .

It creates a Survivors Employment and Education Program to help people who were trafficked rebuild their lives and avoid being exploited again. Services can include basic education, job skills and certificates, high school completion, life‑skills classes, résumé and interview help, assistance clearing certain nonviolent records tied to trafficking and repairing credit, help enrolling in college or technical school (including scholarships), professional coaching, case management, and help getting funds for mental health care. Services can last up to five years . The bill also funds these efforts: $30.755 million each year from 2025–2029 (including $5 million yearly for the National Human Trafficking Hotline and cybersecurity/public education campaigns), $35 million yearly for housing help for trafficking victims (2025–2029), and it extends funding under International Megan’s Law through 2029.

Key points

• Who is affected: K–12 students, parents, teachers and school staff; homeless, foster, child‑welfare‑involved, and runaway youth; survivors of trafficking; community nonprofits and partners, including law enforcement and tech/social media companies .
• What changes: Stronger school prevention grants with clear priorities; required annual public reporting; a new program that offers education, job training, life‑skills, and other support for survivors; multi‑year funding for prevention, services, housing, the national hotline, and public awareness .
• When: Reports begin 540 days after enactment and then yearly; survivor services can last up to five years; funding runs from 2025 through 2029 .