A Training for Health Care and Social Service Providers
What is SOAR Training?
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Health care and social service providers may come into contact with victims of human trafficking and not recognize the red flags. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services developed the SOAR training so that these first responders can identify and assist potential victims.
What is Human Trafficking?
Human trafficking is a crime where force, fraud, or coercion are used to compel a person to provide labor or services (Labor Trafficking) or commercial sex (Sex Trafficking). If a person younger than 18 is induced to perform a commercial sex act, proof of force, fraud, or coercion is not needed.
- Victims of human trafficking are men and women, adults and children, and U.S. citizens and foreign nationals.
- 1in 6 is the estimated number of endangered runaway youth that are likely sex trafficking victims.
- 87.8% is the approximate percent of human trafficking victims that have come in contact with health care professionals.
- 20.9 million is the estimated number of people victimized by traffickers worldwide.
What will I learn in the SOAR training?
- Stop – Become aware of the scope of human trafficking
- Observe – Recognize verbal and non-verbal indicators of human trafficking
- Ask – Identify and interact with a potential human trafficking victim using a victim-centered approach
- Respond – Act effectively to a potential human trafficking victim
Who should take the SOAR training?
- Health care providers
- Public health professionals
- Social workers
- Behavioral health professionals
Jointly provided by Postgraduate Institute for Medicine and U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
Files
- PDF SOAR Infographic (441.41 KB)