What Is Human Trafficking?

6. A form of modern-day slavery Involves the exploitation of persons for commercial sex or forced labor Victims may be illegal immigrants, legal immigrants, or U.S. citizens (homeless, substance-addicted persons, or teenage runaways) Often involves crossing an international border but does not require moving a victim Traffickers use force, fraud, or coercion to control their victims Can be prosecuted on a variety of grounds Labor and commercial sex Domestic and international What Is Human Trafficking?

7. Force, Fraud, Coercion FORCE – Physical Assault, Sexual Assault, Rape, Confinement, Isolation FRAUD – Fraudulent offers of employment; False promises of employment or living conditions; Withholding wages COERCION – Threats to life, safety, family members, or others; Threats of deportation or arrest, Debt Bondage; Withholding legal documents or ID’s; Psychological Manipulation

10. Categories of Victims

13. Traffickers Use Multiple Means to Control Their Victims • Beatings, burnings, rapes, and starvation • Isolation • Psychological abuses • Drug dependency • Document withholding • Debt bondage • Threats of deportation • Threats against the victim’s family or friends in his/her home country

15. Film ClipsPress TVLaborBillboardTrafficked Life

16. Victim UnderstandingMinors Recruitment by: Boyfriend, Family Member, Friends False Employment – modeling, singing, dancing Schools, malls, parks, youth shelters, group homes Victim Abuse and Trauma: Psychological, Emotional, Physical, Sexual Isolation, Manipulation, Threats Trauma Bond

17. THE MYTH The pimp is a cultural icon, business man, and revered capitalist. The female is a prostitute by choice and leads a glamorous life in which she enjoys both her trade and the benefits of her trade.

18. THE REALITY The pimp is a criminal. Often a gang member, he is exploiting younger and younger women and girls in more dangerous and violent ways. She is often exploited by force and manipulation. Lured into the game and quickly too broken down to escape.

19. Red Flags and Indicators

20. “The Life/The Game” Stable – Group of girls that are controlled and trafficked by a pimp. Daddy, Mommy, Folks Bottom bitch – Main girl in stable. Receives most “positive” attention. Pimps play girls against each other as competition for role. Boss – Third party (usually charges girls more than regular rate)

21. “The Life/The Game”(continued) Trap – Quota Uniform- Revealing clothes to draw in customers Track – “Hoe Stroe”; usually specific neighborhood area Knocking – Recruiting Renegade – Working for oneself (young girls do not renegade, they do not have the ability to challenge the game) In Pocket – staying within the rules of the game (they change to keep girls on edge); no eye contact with other pimps; pimps up/hoes down

22. The Trauma Experience Quota of 5 customers/night or $500 - $1000/night ♀ x ♂ ♂ ♂ ♂ ♂ per day x 6 days/week x 1 year = 1,560 forced sexual encounters per year

23. The Trafficker Pimp, Boyfriend, Family Member ♀ x $500 quota per night, 6 nights a week = $156,000 a year ♀♀♀ = $468,000 per year

24. Barriers to Youth Self-Identification

25. Key Questions to Assess Potential Human Trafficking What city are you in right now? How did you get here? What is your cell phone number? Where do you live, eat and sleep? Do you owe someone money? Is someone keeping your legal/travel documents? Were you threatened if you tried to leave? Has your family been threatened? Were you ever physically abused? Were you ever forced to stay in one place? Who are you afraid of? Have you ever provided oral sex or sex for money or a place to stay? Do you have any tattoos? What is their meaning? Who did them? Labor – Have you paid out money to do a job Have you been forced to sell anything? Where are the others you are working with?

26. Working with or Assessing Victims of Human Trafficking Conversation – NOT Interview Reassure the Potential Victim You are there to help and you care about them You are not trying to punish or judge Build Trust Expect lies and canned stories It may take several encounters to build trust Be Conscious Be careful how you refer to the potential trafficker – refer to them as victim does Avoid using derogatory terms such as prostitute Keep in mind that victims do not self-identify as victims of trafficking Your body language and facial expressions Remain Sensitive to Power Dynamics One on one encounters are ideal especially when trafficker is insisting on being present. Separate victim from potential trafficker

27. Nature of Protocols • Shelter • SART • Law Enforcement and victim advocates • Transportation of victims • Safety considerations Example Bakersfield and Union • Long term services

30. Victim Service Requirements ()

31. Comprehensive Service Needs Emergency, Transitional, and Long-term housing Legal services Medical/mental health services and dental Clothing and food Crisis intervention Emotional support and counseling Basic Needs Fund • Employment assistance • Interpretation/translation (if foreign) • Protection/safety planning • Social service advocacy • Transportation • Literacy education (school, G.E.D.) • Interpreters

32. Inter-Connected and ParallelIssues/Movements – The Place of NGO’s Domestic Violence Sexual Assault Pornography Child Abuse Gender Violence Homelessness Substance Abuse Poverty Family Violence and Conflict Migration Business Practices Sub-contracting Civil Wars and Conflict Child Labor Consumer Demands and Choices

35. 2015 Goals Resource guide Outreach in rural areas Survivor stories from rural areas Further protocol for health services in ER/SART/etc Prevention training/outreach continuation Event planning for awareness (upcoming) Digital billboard for advertising events and other KCAHT activities

36. 2015 Goals DVD of Trafficked Life documentary to high schools Continuation schools, other HS DVD for training for all local law enforcement Large case protocol clarity Further development of longer term services Great victim ID of foreign national victims Engagement with forced labor

37. 2015 Goals High school presentations on a wider level Further development of survivor group Development of law enforcement task force

39. Address sexual addiction in relevant communities Outreach to at risk youth Join our public awareness group Reach parents – Mandated parenting classes and foster parents Help us become county wide Call the hotline Remember root causes and parallel movements Ask questions! Advocate: Local and global, thecode.org Encourage creativity in the home Become a foster parent. Volunteer and mentor What you can do!

40. Challenges Money paid by “John’s” Teens leaving Centers and Group Homes Foster care vulnerability Mindset of some LE Recruiting and drugs in group homes Community awareness Visiting complexity Addressing Labor issues Solutions City ordinance review Foster Care modeled on URM Prevention including Foster Parents Ongoing CPS training and prevention program Victim Impact Panel Strategic and comprehensive partnerships Including Schools Our Challenges and Solutions For DMST

42. 11 Discussion Points Regarding Minors • Foster care • Group home safety/separate wings • 21 day shelter • Out of county referral • URM • 6 hour – victim advocates • Probation victim advocate • CPS victim advocate john’s sting • Successful child welfare dialogue • Expunging charges • RTF’s and RTC’s that are secure facilities

45. What to the slave is the Fourth of July – Frederick Douglas 1852 • "For it is not light that is needed, but fire, it is not a gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake. The feeling of the nation must be quickened; the conscience of the nation must be roused; the propriety of the nation must be startled; the hypocrisy of the nation must be exposed; and its crimes against God and man must be proclaimed and denounced."