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The Toolkit for Building Survivor-Informed Organizations is a collection of new and existing resources that builds organizational capacity to meaningfully collaborate with and support staff, volunteers, and consultants with lived experience in human trafficking. The toolkit is a resource for anti-trafficking organizations, coalitions, task forces, volunteer programs, and other community and faith-based organizations that want to improve collaboration with those impacted by human trafficking. This toolkit provides guidance, tools, and resources that support professionally engaging people with lived experience when developing, delivering, and evaluating programs and policies. The 2023 update to this previously published toolkit includes three new chapters with recommendations and resources on (1) survivor leadership engagement; (2) diversity, equity, and inclusion; and (3) wellness.
This document was developed by fellows of the Human Trafficking Leadership Academy Class 1 organized through the National Human Trafficking Training and Technical Assistance Center and Coro Northern California. A team of allied professionals and survivor leaders worked together to respond to the following question: What is survivor-informed programming? How can Office on Trafficking in Persons grantees enhance their programming and services to support survivors of trafficking and/or those at risk using trauma-informed and survivor-informed practices?
The HTLA fellowship is funded by the Office on Trafficking in Persons and the Office on Women’s Health at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The recommendations and content of this document are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent the views of OTIP, OWH, or HHS.
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.
The Grant Management Toolkit provides information to Office on Trafficking in Persons’ grantees and other organizations on how to create a culture and infrastructure that supports effective implementation and sustainability of anti-trafficking programs. The toolkit includes links to official resources on federal websites and supplemental, unofficial information from other sources.
In response to recommendations from the U.S. Advisory Council on Human Trafficking, the Office on Trafficking in Persons (OTIP) at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services funded training and technical assistance activities to increase attention on men and boys as an underserved population. OTIP established a technical working group of subject matter experts and implemented subsequent listening sessions through its National Human Trafficking Training and Technical Assistance Center (NHTTAC).
Two listening sessions held in September 2020 provided a forum for attendees to use the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) social-ecological model to create a framework on trafficking of men and boys. The first session explored risk factors and barriers to accessing services. The second session built on the first, exploring protective and resiliency factors to inform enhanced services for men and boys.
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.
Recording of a training on how to navigate the Anti-Trafficking Information Management System’s (ATIMS) Grant Performance Module for external users. ATIMS will allow grant recipients and their subrecipients to track client information and submit performance reports to reduce the burden of data collection.
The What to Know: Municipal Response to Human Trafficking Fact Sheet reflects learning from the Ten/Ten Municipal Fellowship, which were convenings held by the City of Houston Mayor’s Office in collaboration with the Office on Trafficking in Persons through the National Human Trafficking Training and Technical Assistance Center. The fact sheet reflects learning from over 20 different municipalities, including implementing systems-level services, engaging industries impacted by trafficking, raising awareness at scale, and conducting data-informed disaster outreach. The resources and examples provided are intended to serve as a guide to help municipalities across the United States take a proactive approach to human trafficking in their communities.
When working with individuals who prefer communicating in a different language, it’s important to have trained and qualified interpreters on hand to help you communicate. This fact sheet details considerations for selecting and preparing to work with an interpreter.
The Trafficking Victim Assistance Program (TVAP) funds 12 months of comprehensive case management services for foreign nationals who have experienced or are at risk of experiencing a severe form of trafficking in persons. These services are offered on a per-capita basis within the United States to assist foreign nationals who seek certification from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) so they can re-establish their ability to live independently. The grant program began in Fiscal Year (FY) 2012 with a cohort of three grantees who delivered services through a network of local service providers. The second cohort of three grantees began their projects in FY 2016. In FY 2019, one organization received all three regional TVAP grant awards and will support a national network of service providers from FY 2019 to FY 2021. This fact sheet provides data on the work of the four grantees who delivered services in the first two cohorts of TVAP, serving a combined total of 9,152 clients (6,665 victims and 2,487 qualified family members).
