Accelerating Innovative Solutions Presenters Alyssa Beck Advocacy Specialist Delores Barr Weaver Policy Center Lawanda Ravoira President amp CEO Delores Barr Weaver Policy Center Linda Alexionok Executive Director The Childrens Campaign IncVOICES for Florida ID: 555242
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A Visionary Partnership
Accelerating Innovative Solutions Slide2
PresentersAlyssa Beck, Advocacy Specialist, Delores Barr Weaver Policy Center
Lawanda Ravoira, President & CEO, Delores Barr Weaver Policy Center
Linda Alexionok, Executive Director, The Children’s Campaign, Inc./VOICES for FloridaSlide3
Exercise: What do we believe?
Women choose to enter into prostitutionStripping is a quick and fast way to make money
Prostitution is a personal choiceProstitution is a victimless crimeIndividuals can get out of “the business” if they wanted toEastern Curriculum: Education and Student Trafficking Education Resource Network. Protecting American Students from Commercial Sexual Exploitation. EASTERNCurriculum.comSlide4
A Survivor’s PerspectiveSlide5
What is Trafficking
Process Ways/Means
Goal Recruitment Threat ProstitutionTransportation Coercion Pornography
Transferring Abduction Violence/SexualHarboring Fraud ExploitationReceiving Deceit Forced Labor
Deception Involuntary Servitude Abuse of Power Debt Bondage
Slavery/Similar
Practices
Eastern Curriculum: Education and Student Trafficking Education Resource Network. Protecting American Students from Commercial Sexual Exploitation. EASTERNCurriculum.comSlide6
What is Trafficking?
If one condition from each category is met, the result is trafficking.For adults, consent is irrelevant if one of the means is employed.
For children, consent is irrelevant with or without the meansEastern Curriculum: Education and Student Trafficking Education Resource Network. Protecting American Students from Commercial Sexual Exploitation. EASTERNCurriculum.comSlide7
Domestic Child Victims
Easy targetsCarry less risks than adults and foreign nationals
Youth in child welfareRunaways, homeless sheltersMiddle class familiesCommon factor: History of physical and sexual abuse in the home or extended family
Sharedhope International. The National Report on Domestic Minor Sex Trafficking: America’s Prostituted Children, May, 2009. www.sharedhope.orgSlide8
Vulnerability
Average age recruited 11-14 years oldHistory of abuse
Drug use by parentsRunaways – easy preyHistory of child protective servicesOlder boyfriendsSharedhope International. The National Report on Domestic Minor Sex Trafficking: America’s Prostituted Children, May, 2009. www.sharedhope.orgSlide9
Language
Child Prostitution – implies a choice
vs.Victims of domestic minor sex trafficking
Sharedhope International. The National Report on Domestic Minor Sex Trafficking: America’s Prostituted Children, May, 2009. www.sharedhope.orgSlide10
$
32,000,000,000Slide11
The Business of DMST
Driven by demand for commercial sex acts
Supply of women and children serves as the fuel for the criminal slave tradeBuyers present the demand and view victims as a dehumanized product for immediate consumption and disposalTraffickers move victims like products to the market to satisfy the demandFacilitators allow the trade to occur (avoid direct responsibility) and include taxi drivers, hotel workers, adult entertainment owners
Sharedhope International. The National Report on Domestic Minor Sex Trafficking: America’s Prostituted Children, May, 2009. www.sharedhope.org Slide12
Power & Control Tactics
The National Report on Domestic Minor Sex Trafficking: America’s Prostituted ChildrenSlide13
Identification of Victims
Victims often do not self identifyDenial due to fear or due to trauma bonds with trafficker
Trauma bonds major hurdle to the identification, rescue and restoration of victimsSharedhope International. The National Report on Domestic Minor Sex Trafficking: America’s Prostituted Children, May, 2009. www.sharedhope.orgSlide14
Trauma-Bonds
“This means that the victims have a certain dysfunctional attachment that occurs in the presence of danger, shame, or exploitation. There is often seduction, deception, betrayal. There is always some form of danger or risk.”
Patrick Carnes, The Betrayal Bond: Breaking Free of Exploitive Relationships, (Deerfield Beach, FL: HCI Publisher), pg. 29 Slide15
Human Trafficking Indicators
While not an exhaustive list, these are some key red flags that could alert you to a potential trafficking situation that should be reported:
Living with employerPoor living conditionsMultiple people in cramped spaceInability to speak to individual aloneAnswers appear to be scripted and rehearsed
Employer is holding identity documentsSigns of physical abuseSubmissive or fearfulUnpaid or paid very littleSlide16
Questions to Ask
Assuming
you have the opportunity to speak with a potential victim privately and without jeopardizing the victim’s safety, here are some sample questions to ask to follow up on the red flags you became alert to:Can you leave your job (or “friends”) if you want to?Can you come and go as you please?
Have you been hurt or threatened if you tried to leave?Has your family been threatened?Do you live with your “employer” or “friend”?
Where do you sleep and eat?Are you in debt to your “employer” or “friend”?Do you have your identification? Who has it?Slide17
Safe
Harbor Laws Aiding Exploited Children Need Better Implementation
According
to research released in January, the nine states that enacted safe harbor laws by 2012 were found to lack adequate funding for services necessary to aid commercially sexually exploited children (CSEC)
Lack of statisticsPoor funding limits placements and programsYouth end up in juvenile justice system instead of child welfare
February
23, 2016 Slide18
Responding to the Need
Co-AuthorsResearch
Process & SystemsAdaptation for FloridaSlide19
Open Doors:
A Statewide Service Delivery Network
for Victims of Sex Trafficking
A systemic response to a program service model created by the Delores Barr Weaver Policy Center
and The Children’s CampaignSlide20
Moving from Multiple Services & Care
(Multiple plans of support; multiple service standards)
to
A “Child & Youth” Centered System of Care(One support structure
. One service standard.)Slide21
Open Doors Program Model: First Responder NetworkSlide22
The First Responder Team
Regional
Advocate
Clinician
Survivor-
MentorSlide23
The First Responder Team
Regional AdvocatesAssigned
geography Work collectively with the various systems Access to multiple services
Troubleshoot based on the individual needsSurvivor Mentors (Peer Support)Grounded
in established psychosocial models Social support, experiential knowledge, helper-therapy principle, social learning theory, social comparison
theory
P
eer
specialist to a care management team resulted in improvement in quality of life measures, fewer significant life problems and improved
self-esteem
and social
support Slide24
The First Responder Team
CliniciansTrauma-specific treatment S
hift away the blame, shame, discrimination, isolation and trauma experienced by victims towards a model that offers validation, support, unconditional acceptance and relational safety Slide25
Programming Components
Survivor-Led Team Approach (Survivor/Mentor – Regional Advocate – Clinician)
Statewide Response ProtocolCommunity collaboration/partnerships/MOUsLocal/Regional/Statewide Training
Shared ResourcesOn-scene crisis/trauma-informed first response
24/7 “Real time” Access to On-call Staff Individual assessmentTotal/mobile care
management (follows the individual)
Crisis Intervention
Emergency shelter (as needed through referral/partnerships)
Basic Needs: Food
, transportation, clothing, etc
. based on assessed needs
Accompany to Court/Court advocacy
Assistance with criminal justice proceedings
Legal assistance (as needed)
Advocacy/support to navigate “systems” (legal, educational, child protection, justice, employment, medical, community referrals, etc.)
Special services with managing practical problems
Educational/Vocational Services
Employment
services
Individual, Group, Family/Caregiver Clinical Services
Process and Outcome EvaluationSlide26
Proposed Phase 1
Survivors receive continued care through an interconnected web of servicesSlide27
Where we are now ?Slide28
Resources
911 Emergency
For urgent situations, notify local law enforcement immediately by calling 911. You may also want to alert the National Human Trafficking Resource Center described below so that they can ensure response by law enforcement officials knowledgeable about human trafficking.1-888-3737-888 National Human Trafficking Resource Center
Call the National Human Trafficking Resource Center, a national 24-hour, toll-free, multilingual anti-trafficking hotline. Call 1-888-3737-888 to report a tip; connect with anti-trafficking services in your area; or request training and technical assistance, general information, or specific anti-trafficking resources. The Center is equipped to handle calls from all regions of the United States.Slide29
Questions?