The Office of Trafficking in Persons (OTIP) collaborates with private organizations to raise awareness, identify research needs, and gather recommendations to improve government programs. Below, you will see our past efforts.
Partnership for Freedom
The Partnership for Freedom is a collaboration led by Humanity United. From 2013-2015, the Partnership worked with several federal agencies and private organizations on a series of Innovation Challenges to inspire, reward, pilot, and potentially scale constructive solutions to end trafficking and support survivors.
- Reimagine Opportunity: (2013—2014) improve the infrastructure of support for survivors of modern slavery in the United States.
- Rethink Supply Chains: (2015) surface, support, and share innovative applications of technology to address labor trafficking and exploitation in global supply chains.
The Partnership continued with challenge three with state and local partners.
- Pathways to Freedom (2016-2017) to change attitudes, policies, and processes to ensure that survivors of trafficking are treated with the dignity they deserve.
Lovelight Foundation
OTIP partnered with the Lovelight Foundation and the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine Department of Public Health Sciences in 2015 to increase the engagement of public health professionals in issues around human trafficking.
Together, we:
- Organized regional conversations of public health stakeholders to increase understanding about the public health impact of human trafficking
- Identified opportunities to strengthen the public health response to human trafficking
- Identified promising practices in public health responses to human trafficking that can be applied nationally