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The National Human Trafficking Training and Technical Assistance Center (NHTTAC) hosted a 90-minute webinar on emerging trends and case studies that address protective factors for children. The webinar highlighted identifying at-risk populations, including LGBTQIA2S+ youth, all-male youth, runaway and homeless youth, Native youth, and unaccompanied minors. This webinar was moderated by Jenna Novak (National Human Trafficking Training and Technical Assistance Center) and included Anna Smith, LCSWA, Erik Gray (Queers Uniting to End Exploitation), and Deanna Pruitt (Sasha Bruce Youthwork) as speakers on the topic.

At the end of the webinar, participants will be able to:

  • Define “disconnected youth” and understand why they are at risk of human trafficking.
  • Discuss trauma- and survivor-informed strategies to reduce risk factors and increase protective factors for youth, families, and communities.
  • Examine innovative models used to prevent trafficking of disconnected youth across the United States.

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The National Human Trafficking Training and Technical Assistance Center (NHTTAC) hosted a 90-minute webinar on emerging trends and case studies that address protective factors for children. The webinar highlighted how systems can better work with at-risk populations, including LGBTQIA2S+ youth, all-male youth, runaway youth, youth who are experiencing homelessness, Indigenous youth, and unaccompanied children. This webinar was moderated by Jenna Novak (Deputy Director, NHTTAC) and included Suamhirs Piraino-Guzman (Licensed Behavioral Psychologist, King County Mental Illness and Drug Dependency), Sue Aboul-Hosn (Regional Human Trafficking Prevention Coordinator, Florida Department of Children and Families), and Kiricka Yarbough Smith (Director of Human Trafficking Programs, North Carolina Council for Women and Youth Involvement Grants/Department of Administration) as speakers on the topic.

At the end of the webinar, participants will be able to:

  • Understand how “disconnected youth” interact with systems. 
  • Discuss trauma-informed and survivor-informed strategies that systems-based employees may use to reduce risk factors and increase protective factors for youth, families, and communities.
  • Examine innovative models within systems used across the United States to prevent the trafficking of disconnected youth.

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The National Human Trafficking Training and Technical Assistance Center hosted a 90-minute webinar on emerging trends and case studies addressing economic mobility. The webinar highlighted survivor-informed models that organizations may implement on financial literacy and sustainable employment opportunities for people who have experienced trafficking. This webinar was moderated by Jenna Novak (Deputy Director, NHTTAC) and included Jill Brogdon (Vice-Chair, Colorado Human Trafficking Council), Tannia Ventura (Director of Partnerships and Education, FreeFrom), and Lenore Schaffer (Senior Manager of Economic Empowerment, Restore NYC) as speakers on the topic. 

As a result of this webinar, participants will be able to do the following: 

  • Understand institutional barriers to economic mobility and financial sustainability for individuals who have experienced human trafficking. 
  • Share successful approaches to integrating financial literacy and financial capacity-building services into trafficking programming. 
  • Discuss innovative programs that provide greater access to post-secondary employment opportunities. 

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Implicit bias impacts the way we make decisions, interact with others, and behave. Research shows that implicit bias is associated with the provision of lower quality health care, unequal disciplinary action in schools, discriminatory workplace practices, and racial disparity in criminal justice responses. Thus, it is important to be aware of and strive to reduce implicit bias to ensure that our decisions, interactions, and behaviors are fair and nondiscriminatory. The Implicit Bias Trainings Environmental Scan and Brief explores existing healthcare and social service implicit bias trainings, challenges and solutions associated with implementing implicit bias training, and evaluations of trainings.

This scan focuses specifically on understanding existing implicit bias trainings amongst populations impacted by human trafficking (e.g., race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation) and not solely implicit bias trainings associated with race and ethnicity. It is not the intent of this scan to explore the definition of implicit bias and the relationship between implicit bias, racism, historical context of racism, and structural inequality. See the “Potential Next Steps” section for an overview of opportunities to explore the topic of implicit bias trainings, racism, and structural inequality further given how conflated the terminology is across trainings.  

Implicit Bias Trainings Environmental Scan  (PDF)

Implicit Bias Trainings Environmental Scan Brief  (PDF)

Individuals who experience human trafficking often struggle to find safe and secure housing. Providing individuals who experience trafficking immediate access to emergency, transitional, and long-term housing is critical, because homelessness and housing instability put individuals at risk of being trafficked or experiencing other forms of interpersonal violence.  The Housing Programs for Individuals Experiencing Housing Instability or Homelessness Environmental Scan and Brief explore housing programs and practices, barriers to housing, outcomes of adults and youth experiencing housing instability or homelessness who participated in housing programs, and potential solutions to housing barriers.

Housing Programs Environmental Scan  (PDF)

Housing Programs Environmental Scan Fact Sheet  (PDF)

Individuals who experience human trafficking often experience a lack of long-term employment and a livable wage, wage theft, and illegal deductions from their paycheck. Providing better access to employment is critical, because the lack of stable employment and a livable wage put individuals at risk of being trafficked. The Programs for Increasing Access to Employment Environmental Scan Outline and Brief describe programs, practices, barriers to employment, potential solutions, and outcomes for those who have participated in employment programs.

Employment Environmental Scan  (PDF)

Employment Environmental Scan Fact Sheet  (PDF)

​​​​​​The purpose of this report is to provide an overview of offender reentry; explore the intersection between human trafficking and prisons; explore how programs and services for offender reentry can support survivor reentry; discuss ways reentry programs can support self-sufficiency; and discuss recommendations for leveraging best practices from offender reentry programs to assist the reintegration of survivors of trafficking.

Reentry: Application and Lessons Learned for the Human Trafficking Field  (PDF)

This page contains resources that summarize the data collection, evaluation, and research efforts of the Office on Trafficking in Persons and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

This Information Memorandum (IM) highlights the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) contributions to human trafficking research, gaps in evidence, and open access policies.

The National Human Trafficking Training and Technical Assistance Center hosted a 90-minute webinar that discusses two-generation and whole family approaches, emerging trends, case studies, and best practices for providing supportive and comprehensive services for individuals who have experienced trafficking and their families. This webinar was moderated by Jenna Novak and included Tiffany Day (Aspen Institute), Jessica (Jessie) Kendall (ICF), and Rosalynd Mosser (National Governor’s Association’s Center for Best Practices) as speakers on the topic.

At the end of the webinar, participants will be able to: 

  • Define key components of a two-generation/whole family approach to service provision.
  • Draw connections between two-generation/whole family approaches and adverse childhood experiences through case studies from organizations across fields outside of trafficking.
  • Describe how a two-generation/whole family approach supports anti-trafficking strategies.

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