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The HHS National Human Trafficking Training and Technical Assistance Center hosted a 90-minute webinar that examines the intersection of human trafficking and the opioid crisis. Presentations were delivered by grantees from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Office on Trafficking in Persons and the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration.
The National Human Trafficking Training and Technical Assistance Center hosted a 90-minute webinar that explored new tools and research for outreach, identification, response, and risk reduction strategies for foreign nationals and migrant workers, not only in the agricultural industry, but other industries that are also high-risk for trafficking. This webinar was moderated by Jenna Novak and included Gonzalo Martinez de Vedia (Buffett-McCain Institute Initiative to Combat Modern Slavery), Makini Chisolm-Straker (Mount Sinai Hospital), and Julissa Ponce (United States Committee for Refugees and Immigrants) as speakers on the topic.
At the end of the webinar, participants will be able to:
Identify person-centered approaches to outreach among foreign nationals who have experienced labor trafficking in the agriculture industry.
Explore new research and tools for identifying potential labor trafficking and risk reduction strategies.
Discuss ways to collaborate with community agencies that serve migrant populations.
This literature review explores the nexus between human trafficking and natural disasters, specifically examining the effect of Hurricane Katrina on trafficking in the region. This resource is intended to assist governments, private businesses, and social service providers in the development of laws, guidelines, and policies to increase recognition of trafficking after a crisis.
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.
In 2008, the HHS Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation(ASPE) sponsored a national symposium focused on the health needs of human trafficking victims. Ten years later, ASPE partnered with the ACF Office on Trafficking in Persons to convene a follow-up symposium to reflect on how far the health service response to human trafficking has evolved.
The HHS National Human Trafficking Training and Technical Assistance Center hosted a 90-minute webinar that investigates bias, stigmas, and risk factors that may lead to victimization of individuals with disabilities.
Discussion Topics
Perspectives from researchers, service providers, and leaders to understand contributing factors to susceptibility to trafficking and prevention from each of these lenses
Promising practices and service responses that address underlying issues that can put individuals with disabilities at risk of trafficking
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.
State and territory profiles, available in English and Spanish, provide an overview of anti-trafficking activities and resources in each U.S. state and territory to help promote collaboration and inform and enhance the response to trafficking. These snapshots of tailored information include statistics from the National Human Trafficking Hotline, including the number of trafficking cases reported, the number of persons trafficked, demographic information about potential victims, and locations of instances of trafficking. The profiles also contain information about state and territorial trafficking laws and public resources, including collaborations, task forces, research, and publications.
This literature review examines how existing 12-step peer support groups can be adapted to address the needs of trafficking survivors seeking help for substance use issues by incorporating trauma-informed and survivor- informed practices. This resource is intended to assist practitioners, service providers, survivors, and researchers in the development of peer-led recovery support programs for survivors.
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.
