Cal OES, in partnership with the California Department of Social Services and the Alameda County District Attorney’s Office, was awarded a FY17 Improving Outcomes grant. California identified the following systems-level barriers to identifying and assisting child and youth victims of sex and labor trafficking: need for strengthened collaboration between systems and sectors; need for training on areas such as identifying child and youth victims of human trafficking, as well as improving coordinated response to serve these victims; lack of effective placement for identified victims (for example, not all transition-age youth or minor victims of trafficking are system involved, and there is no safety net in place for them); and the absence of meaningful evaluation and outcome measures to drive successful programs for these victims. Through their grant funding, Cal OES and its partners addressed these gaps through a 4-year project. Objectives follow: (1) Engage in detailed planning with an MDT of state leaders and stakeholders; (2) create pilot projects that solely focus on child and youth victims of human trafficking; (3) develop and conduct a comprehensive multiday training to identify best practices and improved coordinated local responses (including MDTs) of human trafficking crimes against children and youth; (4) evaluate existing and new program models to identify effective strategies; and (5) use evaluation results to inform and drive statewide scaling. The project directly involved and leveraged existing victim assistance, law enforcement, and child welfare efforts throughout the state, as well as allied partners, including community-based organizations, courts, prosecution and defense, law enforcement, health care, behavioral health, and education. California completed its project in September 2021.