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This webinar lays the foundation for understanding the types of domestic trafficking, the traumatic impacts of victimization, and operationalizing trauma-informed responses within new and existing advocacy structures and partnerships.

  • Types of Domestic Trafficking: Understanding the differences between pimp-, gang-, parent-, crime syndicate- and transgender-controlled trafficking serves to guide outreach and service strategies.
  • Complex Trauma lives in the physical, sexual, emotional, spiritual, mental/cognitive, relational, behavioral, and/or parenting experiences of survivors.
  • Trauma-Informed Care integrates the impact of individual, historic, chronic, insidious, and community-, family- and systems-inflicted trauma into program design.
  • Anti-trafficking responses require systems to learn new practices and engage in new multi-agency partnerships, so at critical points of contact, such as arrest, release, healthcare, counseling, shelter, etc., they are trauma-informed gateways to help, healing and safety.

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PowerfuL Partnerships: Collaborative efforts to address human trafficking affecting AAPI communities, 2022

PowerfuL Partnerships: Collaborative efforts to address human trafficking affecting AAPI communities, 2022

Alia El-Sawi, a Victim Assistance Specialist at the Department of Homeland Security, joins API-GBV for our first “fireside chat” hosted by our Executive Director Monica Khant. Drawing also from her previous role as the Anti-Human Trafficking Coordinator at a community-based organization that provides culturally-responsive services for survivors of human trafficking, Alia will discuss what can be done to increase coordination and communication between DHS agents and community-based advocates in responding to trafficking situations and minimizing trauma for survivors. The conversation will also illuminate challenges to current anti-trafficking efforts, including fear of reporting, human-trafficking’s concurrence with other forms of gender-based violence, and the abundant stereotypes around the trafficking of AAPI individuals.

Trafficking: Trauma & Trauma-Informed Collaboration & Advocacy, 2018

Building from what trafficking survivors have taught us, this webinar discusses how to identify survivors, how past experience of help-seeking can influence current attempts, and the importance of trauma-informed care at different points of contact with survivors such as raids, arrest, and at shelters.

Webinars on Survivor-Centered, Trauma-Informed Advocacy for Trafficking Survivors

Webinars on Survivor-Centered, Trauma-Informed Advocacy for Trafficking Survivors

a. Advocacy & Services for Trafficking Survivors, 2014: A comprehensive overview of sex and labor trafficking – actions/means/purposes, data, root causes, traumas and oppressions, help-seeking, legal remedies, cross-systems trauma-informed collaboration.

b. Supporting Domestic Trafficking Survivors, 2015: Two national experts, Tina Frundt and Elisabeth Corey, lay the foundations for understanding domestic minor sex trafficking, followed by the traumatic impacts of victimization and operationalizing trauma-informed responses within new and existing advocacy structures and partnerships.

c. The Culture of Family-Controlled Trafficking, 2016: Elisabeth Corey reaches into her story to teach us about the traffickers, the enablers, and the family on the outside and inside that operate family-controlled trafficking; and how survivors can be helped.

Presented by:
Tina Frundt (Courtney’s House),
Elisabeth Corey (Beating Trauma),
Carole Warshaw (National Center on Domestic Violence, Trauma and Mental Health),
& Chic Dabby (API-GVB)

Hosted by API-GBV, in coordination with National Latin@ network
January 2015

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