Human Trafficking Resources

Office for Victims of Crimes (OVC): OVC and NIJ-funded Resources (related to services for survivors of human trafficking):

Office for Victims of Crime OVC works to enhance the Nation’s capacity to assist crime victims and to provide leadership in changing attitudes, policies, and practices in ways that will promote justice and healing for all victims.

Office for Victims of Crimes: Human Trafficking - Training and Technical Assistance Resources

Trauma-Informed Care for Survivors of Human Trafficking: A State of the Field in 2019

The Outcomes For Human Trafficking Survivors (OHTS) Instrument: Access the OHTS instrument, as well as the accompanying User Guid, and Development Brief

Project Trust: A “state of the field” report on trauma-informed care for trafficking survivors

Ends-Means-Purpose Model: How I figure out whether my client is a victim of human trafficking? This model was developed by OVC’s HT legal training and technical Assistance provider, CAST, including a short video walking through the model.

Housing Survivors of Trafficking during COVID-19: A factsheet from OCV’s HT housing training and technical assistance provider, Freedom Network

Trauma Responsiveness in an Integrated Workforce Service Delivery System: From OVC’s HT employment training and technical assistance provider, Promoting Employment Opportunities for Survivors of Trafficking (Future Without Violence).

National & International Resources:

U.S. Department of Homeland Security Blue Campaign works closely with DHS components as a national public awareness campaign, designed to educate the public, law enforcement, and other industry partners to recognize the indicators of human trafficking

U.S. Department of State For 20 years, the Trafficking in Persons Report (TIP Report) has demonstrated the United States’ conviction that human trafficking is a global threat necessitating a global response.

National Center for Missing and Exploited Children NCMEC provides training, case management, clearinghouse resources, analytical support, family and peer support, and recovery services assistance on reports involving child sex trafficking

OSCE - OSCE works in combating human trafficking through prevention, prosecution, protection, and partnerships in a victim-centric, human rights-based approach.

ODIHR/ISTAC - ISTAC will assist The OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) work in combatting trafficking in human beings.

UNODC - UNODC assists countries to ratify and implement the UN Protocol on Trafficking in Persons.

UNHCR - UNHCR works in close partnership with several organizations – including UNODC, UNICEF, OHCHR, UNFPA, ILO, and IOM – to develop joint global initiatives to address human trafficking at large.

Online Training Resources:

Child Protection: Children’s Rights in Theory and Practice: Learn how to protect children from violence, exploitation, and neglect through law, policy, and practice in a human rights framework.

Posttraumatic Stress and Related Disorders: The Latest from Neurobiology to Treatment

This intensive, 2-day course on PTSD brings together some of the foremost authorities in the field to provide participants with cutting edge research and treatments so that they may serve their patients and clients more effectively.

Stress, Adversity, and Trauma: A CEEL Module

Stress, Adversity, and Trauma is a module within the Certificate in Early Education Leadership: Series 1

Polyvictimization and Complex Trauma: Understanding Special Populations, Enhancing Multidisciplinary Responses to Polyvictimization

Immigrants’ Rights & Human Trafficking Program: BU Law has established this program to engage law students in developing cutting-edge responses to challenges facing immigrants, refugees, and survivors of human trafficking.

Online Publications & Videos for First-Responders and Service Providers - Training Resources:

FAAST: Faith Alliance Against Slavery and Trafficking

Human Trafficking Clinic: Human Trafficking Clinic Named One of Most Innovative Law Schools Clinics

Garden of Truth: The Prostitution and Trafficking of Native Women in Minnesota

Georgetown Law: Research Confirms that Black Girls Feel the Sting of Adultification Bias Identified in Earlier Georgetown Law Study

End Adultification Bias (Full Version)

Girlhood Interrupted: The Erasure of Black Girls Childhood

National Missing & Exploited Children: Child Sex Trafficking

2020 Trafficking in Persons Report - State Department - The 2020 Trafficking in Person Report

Yoga for First Responders: Mission is to provide first responders and military personnel with traditional yoga training that is culturally informed and job specific for the purposes of effectively processing stress, building resilience, and enhancing performance.

Howard Thurman Center for Common Ground, Boston University: The Howard Thurman Center for Common Ground (HTC) was founded by Dean Emeritus George K. Makechnie in 1986 to preserve and share the legacy of Dr. Howard Thurman. Howard Thurman was a man of religion, a world-renowned educator, a philosopher and poet, and Dean of Marsh Chapel at Boston University from 1953 to 1965. Thurman spent his life working to break barriers of divisiveness that separate people based on race, culture, religion, ethnicity, gender and sexual identity. The Center preserves Dr. Howard Thurman's legacy of breaking barriers of divisiveness by inspiring Boston University's students to discover their shared humanity through programs and events designed to expand their intellectual, social and spiritual growth and foster their development of meaningful and authentic friendships.

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