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How to Improve Services for Males Experiencing Trafficking is a resource that provides behavioral health and social service providers with a way to engage and build rapport with male clients and to address each client’s specific risk factors related to human trafficking at the individual, relationship, community, and societal levels. This tool aligns each factor with suggestions on how to build rapport with male clients, leverage universal education and motivational interviewing techniques to engage in meaningful conversations that help male clients understand their risk factors, differentiate between what trauma and exploitation is and what it is not, and to commit to accessing services.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The Human Trafficking Programming During Disasters and Emergencies Fact Sheets are meant for emergency managers and service providers to easily access information to help prevent trafficking and continue operations during disasters and emergencies.
The Human Trafficking Community Readiness Guide was created by a diverse group of subject matter experts, including individuals with lived experience, with the intention to strengthen community readiness in anti-trafficking work. This guide provides step-by-step instructions on how communities can assess their current efforts and develop sustainable strategies based on their level of readiness. This guide will help community providers and organizations create an effective, coordinated, multidisciplinary, and tailored approach to identify and respond to trafficking in your unique community.
The objective of this literature review and annotated bibliography is to identify significant research on ACEs and social determinants of health found in at-risk populations, including children in and aging out of foster care, runaway and homeless youth, unaccompanied children (UC), Indigenous youth, and rural and urban youth. The goal of this literature review is to inform trafficking prevention efforts by leveraging knowledge gained from existing research. After the conclusion of the literature review, an annotated bibliography is provided with a synopsis of 33 relevant articles published between 2000 to 2017 from various disciplines, including psychology, youth studies, public health, and health care.
