November 21, 2023 • 21 mins
In this episode, we equip you with vital knowledge about what to screen and assess for when assisting victims of human trafficking. Our trusted guide is none other than Dr. Celia Williamson, director of the Human Trafficking and Social Justice Institute at the University of Toledo. She shines a light on a recently revised screening tool designed to identify at-risk and currently trafficked youth. This episode will help you recognize the 10 vital areas where trafficking victims may require assistance, such as basic needs, safety, orientation, education, and legal aid.
Ever puzzled over how to shield at-risk girls from the clutches of human trafficking? We will provide a brief explanation of the transformative 'best life' curriculum, a powerful resource to empower girls to spot perilous situations and individuals. It also assists them in finding secure solutions and evaluating their choices wisely. March on with us as we navigate the complex needs of survivors, from legal and mental health needs to basic needs and sometimes substance abuse needs. We emphasize the necessity of connecting survivors with the right services and supports, empowering them to regain their own individual power. As we wrap up, we delve into the importance of healthcare and preventive care for survivors, giving you crucial insights into their specific needs and the importance of a holistic approach. Don't miss out!
If you are interested in receiving the latest, free, valid screening tool to be used with youth ages 12-17, please email me at celia.williamson@utoledo.edu
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
You know the why human trafficking work is needed
To fight for the freedom ofmodern day slaves.
But love, passion, commitmentisn't all you need to be an
effective and successfulanti-trafficking advocate.
Learn the how.
I'm Dr Celia Williamson,director of the Human
Trafficking and Social JusticeInstitute at the University of
(00:23):
Toledo.
Welcome to the EmancipationNation podcast, where I'll
provide you with the latest andbest methods, policy and
practice discussed byexperienced experts in the field
, so that you can cut throughthe noise, save time and be
about the work of saving lives.
Welcome to the EmancipationNation.
I'm Dr Celia Williamson.
(00:44):
This is episode 200.
Can you believe it?
I'm going to tell you the truth.
I really didn't think I wouldget to five.
So one thing I am, I guess, isconsistent.
So in the 200th episode, I wantto make sure that we give you
(01:07):
something.
And so you know, for a coupleof years we have been working on
validating a screening tool foryouth young people under the
age of 18, to identify those atrisk for human trafficking,
particularly sex trafficking,and those who are potentially
(01:30):
currently being trafficked.
Now we validated the tool andthat tool is free.
But recently we have developeda second iteration of the tool.
So if you happen to have thefirst screening tool, you want
to make sure you pick up thesecond version, the better
(01:51):
version, of this valid tool.
This is statistically valid, soit's very easy to use.
It's written in fifth gradelanguage so you can screen young
people, or by asking themquestions or, if they have a
(02:12):
good reading comprehension, youcan give them the tool and they
can complete it themselves andhand it back to you.
So it's called the focusscreening tool and you know I
don't do show notes, so I put itin the description of this
episode.
(02:32):
So if you can copy and pastethat link, you can get that
valid tool for free and feelfree to use it.
So now with the tool, make surethat you know on the other side
there are instructions and evenif somebody doesn't score in
(02:54):
the range of likely beingtrafficked, pay attention to
each one of those questionsbecause there are clinical
implications for those.
So if somebody answers yes toone of those questions, make
sure that you attend to that,and that's what we call
(03:14):
prevention.
You want to lower risk andincrease protection.
So when you attend to thoserisk areas, those are risk
factors.
When somebody says yes, thatplaces them at elevated risk and
the way that you help to changethat trajectory toward the
(03:37):
vulnerability of beingtrafficked is to attend to those
areas where they are at risk.
So even if somebody is notscoring in the range of being
trafficked but they do say yesto some of those areas, those
areas are risk factors.
So make sure if somebody saysyes, I use drugs or alcohol,
(04:02):
then make sure that they geteither a more thorough
assessment on drugs and alcohol,that they get into a drug and
alcohol prevention program orthey get into a drug or alcohol
treatment program.
Make sure you attend to lowerthe risks that they are showing
you in the screening tool.
(04:23):
So different screening andassessment.
Screening is just enoughinformation to help you get them
in the hands of somebody who isan expert in that area so that
they can do a thoroughassessment to understand if
there's an issue there and thenwhere they should refer them for
(04:47):
treatment or for preventionVery important.
So today I want to talk aboutthe assessment for human
trafficking.
There are 10 common areas wherehuman trafficking victims most
(05:07):
commonly need support.
So I'm going to go over those10 areas.
The first area is basic needs,and most of us know that food,
clothing, shelter.
We want to make sure that weattend to the basic needs food,
clothing, shelter right.
We can't build any type ofinterventions if somebody
(05:28):
doesn't have food, clothing,shelter.
That's the first thing we haveto do.
Maslow's hierarchy of needright.
We have to take care of thosebasic needs to survive.
Along with those basic needssometimes we forget is safety.
That's a basic need.
So we always are going to beattending to safety and there
(05:51):
are lots of safety plans onlinefor you or your organization to
choose from.
But you want to make sure thatyou uncover all of the ways that
they may not be safe or feelsafe and to develop a plan of
action to increase that safetyand security.
So, basic needs food, clothing,shelter, safety.
(06:16):
Then next, you might want todepending on how much of a
crisis it is or an emergency itis, but it's somewhere you want
to make sure that you orient thevictim or survivor to your
services so that they know howto access them, who they should
be talking to, when, whenthey're going to be there with
(06:40):
you today, what is expected,their rights to refuse services,
all the things they need to beoriented to.
And sometimes this is veryimportant but we forget about it
because we know the systemwe're inside, so we forget to
orient people to our services,to other people's services that
(07:02):
they could potentially access.
And along with orientation iseducation.
So you may want to educate yourvictim or survivor about the
law of the land.
If the law stands with them,let them know that, because
there are some people involvedin the commercial sex trade that
(07:24):
believe they are committing acrime and so they don't even
understand that we have passedlaws in many cases to support
them and that there are certainrights that they have and there
are certain resources that theyhave the right to access to.
Some people educate in ourprogram we educate on various
(07:46):
aspects trauma, bonding trauma,those types of things.
So orientation education veryimportant.
First, basic needs number one,orientation education number two
.
They don't have to necessarilygo in this order, although basic
needs should always be attendedto first.
Another area that we want toassess is legal needs, not only
(08:10):
the trafficking experience, andsome people have the right to
not pursue prosecution or towait to pursue prosecution but
there are all kinds of legalneeds.
Perhaps they have a child, bythe trafficker or by anybody,
and they're not collecting childsupport.
(08:31):
Perhaps this person has openeda bank account, credit cards in
their name.
This happens sometimes in labortrafficking.
So sometimes there may be theftthat they've been charged with
and all the things that theydidn't really have control of,
(08:52):
but the trafficker may havemanipulated or forced them to
get involved in other illegalactivities.
Perhaps they have drug charges.
There may be a bunch of legalneeds.
So we want to assess those,make sure that we address those
Mental health needs.
We know that disproportionately, survivors of human trafficking
(09:17):
may experience post-traumaticstress disorder, mental health
issues such as depression,anxiety, those types of things.
So we want to make sure that wescreen for those and then
assess those and then, of course, with any of these, we have to
put them in the hands of theexpert.
(09:38):
Hey, I want to break into thisepisode to let you know that if
you're interested in gettingahead of the problem of human
trafficking by engaging inprevention and changing the
trajectory of the lives ofat-risk youth, then listen and
learn about what really works inthe field of anti-trafficking
prevention curriculum.
Follow me here.
The first issue is tounderstand that every youth is
(10:01):
not at the same level of risk.
There are youth at higher riskthan other youth.
Second, for those at higherrisk.
Education doesn't necessarilytranslate into lowered risk.
Youth at high risk will beeducated and will remain at high
risk because there are otherfactors keeping them at high
risk.
Third, understand that sextraffickers don't commonly
(10:24):
snatch youth off the street andchain their risks and ankles.
They manipulate them and chaintheir minds and hearts in what
we call trauma bonding.
If that's true, then we need totrain youth to see the
manipulation coming, assess itfor what it is and do something
preemptively about it.
(10:45):
My best life human traffickingprevention curriculum for
at-risk girls uses the safermethod to teach girls how to see
risky situations and riskypeople, assess the situation,
find suitable and safe solutions, evaluate those solutions and
respond.
We talk about support andrelationships and boundaries and
(11:06):
we reduce the risk factors thatincrease the opportunities for
someone to remain vulnerable andto be trafficked.
If you're interested inlowering risk and perhaps
changing the trajectory ofsomeone's life for the better,
check out my free webinar on thebest life curriculum at
CeliaWiliamsoncom.
(11:27):
Learn how to become a trainedbest life facilitator today and
now on with the podcast.
So they have legal needs weneed to put them in the hands of
a good, trauma-informed lawyer.
Mental health needs we need tolink them up with a good mental
(11:48):
health center in person and notjust give them the name and the
phone number, but a soft handoffwhere we are introducing them
to the person and making surethey feel comfortable with this
mental health advocate.
Substance abuse Many survivorsmay get involved in substance
(12:13):
abuse as a method of coping.
So whether they might needsubstance abuse treatment in
terms of detox and theninpatient treatment or intensive
outpatient treatment or ANAmeetings, whatever they might
need, we want to make sure thatwe ask questions around that and
their needs.
(12:33):
Let's see.
So we've done.
Basic needs orientation,education, legal mental health,
sums, abuse that's five.
We want to assess for injuryand impairment.
Has there been any acuteinjuries that they need tended
(12:53):
to, or chronic injury orimpairment?
And when I say impairment Imean disabilities, intellectual
disabilities, physicaldisabilities.
For instance, over 40% of womenwe surveyed in my community
(13:14):
experienced a significant heador neck injury during their
trafficking experience.
So that alerts us to thepossibility that they could have
experienced a traumatic braininjury.
So I might then screen.
Well, I don't do direct serviceanymore, but someone might
screen for traumatic braininjury and there are free tools
(13:38):
online TBI, free tools that youcan just screen somebody and
again, that just alerts you sothat you can get them to a
neurologist for a full workupand then maybe to a
neuropsychologist to develop atreatment plan.
(13:59):
Next, we want to assess forservices for dependence.
Some survivors may be takingcare of an elderly mother or
father, children, those types ofthings, and we know that if we
don't attend to that, if weignore that that they will,
they're going to do whateverpossible, just like you to take
(14:19):
care of loved ones.
So we need to support them inthat.
We need to help them with that.
Next is life skills andsupports.
You know, some survivors havebeen under the control of
someone else and so they mayhave missed those daily living
skills that we all have and wetake for granted.
(14:42):
When we talk about supports,we're talking about that can be
broken down into two thingsFormal supports.
So formal supports are agencies, organizations, faith-based
organizations that are currentlyin their lives, whether it's
government run programs,Medicaid, church folk, whatever
(15:07):
it is that those formal supportsystems help them in.
We need to know who those arein case we want to be able to
supplement or further support byconnecting them to other formal
support systems that we realizethey need and that they said
(15:28):
that they would love to have intheir life.
Then there are informal supportsystems, and those are friends,
family, neighbors, coworkers,and that informal support system
is very important.
I mean, if you think about yourinformal support system, you
know like who do you call whenyour car breaks down, who do you
(15:49):
borrow $20 from when you'rebroken to your next paycheck,
who makes you laugh, who do yougo out to dinner with to, just
you know, de-stress?
Those informal supports arevery important.
And so when, sometimes, whensurvivors come out of a
trafficking experience, theydon't have an informal support
(16:10):
system, not a healthy one.
So helping them establish aninformal support system is a way
of eventually working yourselfout of a job.
They won't have to depend onyou.
They will have a formal supportsystem and an informal support
system.
The ninth one is empowerment,and it's not like they may have
(16:37):
never been empowered.
We have to help them reclaimtheir power, and that may be a
job.
That may be going back toschool, that may be as simple as
helping them connect to thepeople who have the services
they need, role-playing withthem, maybe talking on the phone
(16:59):
first, and then eventuallythey're taking care of their own
business and you're juststanding there to support and
then eventually you're not thereat all.
They have reclaimed their powerand they can take care of
business.
The last one is healthcare.
We wanna make sure that anyacute issues or chronic issues
(17:22):
you know, we did a study of1,000 women in my community who
had been incarcerated.
We separated those who had beenincarcerated for prostitution
at any time in their life andthose who had been involved or
accused, convicted, of othercrimes.
We ran the analysis and wefound that women who had been
(17:46):
involved in prostitutionsuffered way more mental health
issues and way more healthconditions, such chronic health
conditions such as diabetes, waymore asthma, heart conditions,
those type of things.
So healthcare, not only likebumps and bruises and cuts and
(18:12):
things that need immediateattention, but chronic
conditions, and we wanna getthem likely to a clinic as soon
as possible, but then over time,a primary care physician and
eventually we wanna work onpreventive care.
The healthier they get, themore we start to look at the
(18:36):
other end, not victim survivor,but becoming a thriver.
So some of the preventive careis gonna be important.
So those are the 10 areas ofassessment that may be specific
to those involved in humantrafficking and then we can do
(18:57):
deeper assessments by gettingthem in front of experts to take
care of these issues.
So, running through them againbasic needs, which includes food
, clothing, shelter and safetythat's number one.
Orientation and education,legal needs, mental health needs
, substance abuse needs,assessing for injury and
(19:19):
impairment, services fordependence, life skills and
formal and informal supports,empowerment and healthcare.
If you have a screening tool orassessment tool, depending on
your agency, that covers thesecommon areas, then you are on
(19:41):
the right track and some of yourclients will need perhaps one,
three, seven, eight.
Others will need two, six, fourand 10.
So your intervention, thetreatment plan, the work that
you do together, is still verymuch individualized to the
(20:02):
client's needs and particularlythose issues the client wants to
work on.
So we want to empower themalways to make choices, even
though we might think you reallyneed to work on this area, if
they wanna work on a differentarea.
We want to empower that becausewe want to respect that and
(20:26):
empower our survivors to makechoices.
So those are the 10 areas.
I hope you enjoyed the 200thepisode.
I hope you will get access toour focus screening tool for
youth about 12 to 17 years oldis what this tool is designed
(20:48):
for, and continue the great workthat you do.
Till next time the fightcontinues.
Let's not just do something,let's do the best thing.
If you liked this episode ofEmancipation Nation, please
subscribe and I'll send you theweekly podcast.
(21:09):
Until then, the fight continues.
You know the why human trafficking work is needed
To fight for the freedom ofmodern day slaves.
But love, passion, commitmentisn't all you need to be an
effective and successfulanti-trafficking advocate.
Learn the how.
I'm Dr Celia Williamson,director of the Human
Trafficking and Social JusticeInstitute at the University of
(00:23):
Toledo.
Welcome to the EmancipationNation podcast, where I'll
provide you with the latest andbest methods, policy and
practice discussed byexperienced experts in the field
, so that you can cut throughthe noise, save time and be
about the work of saving lives.
Welcome to the EmancipationNation.
I'm Dr Celia Williamson.
(00:44):
This is episode 200.
Can you believe it?
I'm going to tell you the truth.
I really didn't think I wouldget to five.
So one thing I am, I guess, isconsistent.
So in the 200th episode, I wantto make sure that we give you
(01:07):
something.
And so you know, for a coupleof years we have been working on
validating a screening tool foryouth young people under the
age of 18, to identify those atrisk for human trafficking,
particularly sex trafficking,and those who are potentially
(01:30):
currently being trafficked.
Now we validated the tool andthat tool is free.
But recently we have developeda second iteration of the tool.
So if you happen to have thefirst screening tool, you want
to make sure you pick up thesecond version, the better
(01:51):
version, of this valid tool.
This is statistically valid, soit's very easy to use.
It's written in fifth gradelanguage so you can screen young
people, or by asking themquestions or, if they have a
(02:12):
good reading comprehension, youcan give them the tool and they
can complete it themselves andhand it back to you.
So it's called the focusscreening tool and you know I
don't do show notes, so I put itin the description of this
episode.
(02:32):
So if you can copy and pastethat link, you can get that
valid tool for free and feelfree to use it.
So now with the tool, make surethat you know on the other side
there are instructions and evenif somebody doesn't score in
(02:54):
the range of likely beingtrafficked, pay attention to
each one of those questionsbecause there are clinical
implications for those.
So if somebody answers yes toone of those questions, make
sure that you attend to that,and that's what we call
(03:14):
prevention.
You want to lower risk andincrease protection.
So when you attend to thoserisk areas, those are risk
factors.
When somebody says yes, thatplaces them at elevated risk and
the way that you help to changethat trajectory toward the
(03:37):
vulnerability of beingtrafficked is to attend to those
areas where they are at risk.
So even if somebody is notscoring in the range of being
trafficked but they do say yesto some of those areas, those
areas are risk factors.
So make sure if somebody saysyes, I use drugs or alcohol,
(04:02):
then make sure that they geteither a more thorough
assessment on drugs and alcohol,that they get into a drug and
alcohol prevention program orthey get into a drug or alcohol
treatment program.
Make sure you attend to lowerthe risks that they are showing
you in the screening tool.
(04:23):
So different screening andassessment.
Screening is just enoughinformation to help you get them
in the hands of somebody who isan expert in that area so that
they can do a thoroughassessment to understand if
there's an issue there and thenwhere they should refer them for
(04:47):
treatment or for preventionVery important.
So today I want to talk aboutthe assessment for human
trafficking.
There are 10 common areas wherehuman trafficking victims most
(05:07):
commonly need support.
So I'm going to go over those10 areas.
The first area is basic needs,and most of us know that food,
clothing, shelter.
We want to make sure that weattend to the basic needs food,
clothing, shelter right.
We can't build any type ofinterventions if somebody
(05:28):
doesn't have food, clothing,shelter.
That's the first thing we haveto do.
Maslow's hierarchy of needright.
We have to take care of thosebasic needs to survive.
Along with those basic needssometimes we forget is safety.
That's a basic need.
So we always are going to beattending to safety and there
(05:51):
are lots of safety plans onlinefor you or your organization to
choose from.
But you want to make sure thatyou uncover all of the ways that
they may not be safe or feelsafe and to develop a plan of
action to increase that safetyand security.
So, basic needs food, clothing,shelter, safety.
(06:16):
Then next, you might want todepending on how much of a
crisis it is or an emergency itis, but it's somewhere you want
to make sure that you orient thevictim or survivor to your
services so that they know howto access them, who they should
be talking to, when, whenthey're going to be there with
(06:40):
you today, what is expected,their rights to refuse services,
all the things they need to beoriented to.
And sometimes this is veryimportant but we forget about it
because we know the systemwe're inside, so we forget to
orient people to our services,to other people's services that
(07:02):
they could potentially access.
And along with orientation iseducation.
So you may want to educate yourvictim or survivor about the
law of the land.
If the law stands with them,let them know that, because
there are some people involvedin the commercial sex trade that
(07:24):
believe they are committing acrime and so they don't even
understand that we have passedlaws in many cases to support
them and that there are certainrights that they have and there
are certain resources that theyhave the right to access to.
Some people educate in ourprogram we educate on various
(07:46):
aspects trauma, bonding trauma,those types of things.
So orientation education veryimportant.
First, basic needs number one,orientation education number two
.
They don't have to necessarilygo in this order, although basic
needs should always be attendedto first.
Another area that we want toassess is legal needs, not only
(08:10):
the trafficking experience, andsome people have the right to
not pursue prosecution or towait to pursue prosecution but
there are all kinds of legalneeds.
Perhaps they have a child, bythe trafficker or by anybody,
and they're not collecting childsupport.
(08:31):
Perhaps this person has openeda bank account, credit cards in
their name.
This happens sometimes in labortrafficking.
So sometimes there may be theftthat they've been charged with
and all the things that theydidn't really have control of,
(08:52):
but the trafficker may havemanipulated or forced them to
get involved in other illegalactivities.
Perhaps they have drug charges.
There may be a bunch of legalneeds.
So we want to assess those,make sure that we address those
Mental health needs.
We know that disproportionately, survivors of human trafficking
(09:17):
may experience post-traumaticstress disorder, mental health
issues such as depression,anxiety, those types of things.
So we want to make sure that wescreen for those and then
assess those and then, of course, with any of these, we have to
put them in the hands of theexpert.
(09:38):
Hey, I want to break into thisepisode to let you know that if
you're interested in gettingahead of the problem of human
trafficking by engaging inprevention and changing the
trajectory of the lives ofat-risk youth, then listen and
learn about what really works inthe field of anti-trafficking
prevention curriculum.
Follow me here.
The first issue is tounderstand that every youth is
(10:01):
not at the same level of risk.
There are youth at higher riskthan other youth.
Second, for those at higherrisk.
Education doesn't necessarilytranslate into lowered risk.
Youth at high risk will beeducated and will remain at high
risk because there are otherfactors keeping them at high
risk.
Third, understand that sextraffickers don't commonly
(10:24):
snatch youth off the street andchain their risks and ankles.
They manipulate them and chaintheir minds and hearts in what
we call trauma bonding.
If that's true, then we need totrain youth to see the
manipulation coming, assess itfor what it is and do something
preemptively about it.
(10:45):
My best life human traffickingprevention curriculum for
at-risk girls uses the safermethod to teach girls how to see
risky situations and riskypeople, assess the situation,
find suitable and safe solutions, evaluate those solutions and
respond.
We talk about support andrelationships and boundaries and
(11:06):
we reduce the risk factors thatincrease the opportunities for
someone to remain vulnerable andto be trafficked.
If you're interested inlowering risk and perhaps
changing the trajectory ofsomeone's life for the better,
check out my free webinar on thebest life curriculum at
CeliaWiliamsoncom.
(11:27):
Learn how to become a trainedbest life facilitator today and
now on with the podcast.
So they have legal needs weneed to put them in the hands of
a good, trauma-informed lawyer.
Mental health needs we need tolink them up with a good mental
(11:48):
health center in person and notjust give them the name and the
phone number, but a soft handoffwhere we are introducing them
to the person and making surethey feel comfortable with this
mental health advocate.
Substance abuse Many survivorsmay get involved in substance
(12:13):
abuse as a method of coping.
So whether they might needsubstance abuse treatment in
terms of detox and theninpatient treatment or intensive
outpatient treatment or ANAmeetings, whatever they might
need, we want to make sure thatwe ask questions around that and
their needs.
(12:33):
Let's see.
So we've done.
Basic needs orientation,education, legal mental health,
sums, abuse that's five.
We want to assess for injuryand impairment.
Has there been any acuteinjuries that they need tended
(12:53):
to, or chronic injury orimpairment?
And when I say impairment Imean disabilities, intellectual
disabilities, physicaldisabilities.
For instance, over 40% of womenwe surveyed in my community
(13:14):
experienced a significant heador neck injury during their
trafficking experience.
So that alerts us to thepossibility that they could have
experienced a traumatic braininjury.
So I might then screen.
Well, I don't do direct serviceanymore, but someone might
screen for traumatic braininjury and there are free tools
(13:38):
online TBI, free tools that youcan just screen somebody and
again, that just alerts you sothat you can get them to a
neurologist for a full workupand then maybe to a
neuropsychologist to develop atreatment plan.
(13:59):
Next, we want to assess forservices for dependence.
Some survivors may be takingcare of an elderly mother or
father, children, those types ofthings, and we know that if we
don't attend to that, if weignore that that they will,
they're going to do whateverpossible, just like you to take
(14:19):
care of loved ones.
So we need to support them inthat.
We need to help them with that.
Next is life skills andsupports.
You know, some survivors havebeen under the control of
someone else and so they mayhave missed those daily living
skills that we all have and wetake for granted.
(14:42):
When we talk about supports,we're talking about that can be
broken down into two thingsFormal supports.
So formal supports are agencies, organizations, faith-based
organizations that are currentlyin their lives, whether it's
government run programs,Medicaid, church folk, whatever
(15:07):
it is that those formal supportsystems help them in.
We need to know who those arein case we want to be able to
supplement or further support byconnecting them to other formal
support systems that we realizethey need and that they said
(15:28):
that they would love to have intheir life.
Then there are informal supportsystems, and those are friends,
family, neighbors, coworkers,and that informal support system
is very important.
I mean, if you think about yourinformal support system, you
know like who do you call whenyour car breaks down, who do you
(15:49):
borrow $20 from when you'rebroken to your next paycheck,
who makes you laugh, who do yougo out to dinner with to, just
you know, de-stress?
Those informal supports arevery important.
And so when, sometimes, whensurvivors come out of a
trafficking experience, theydon't have an informal support
(16:10):
system, not a healthy one.
So helping them establish aninformal support system is a way
of eventually working yourselfout of a job.
They won't have to depend onyou.
They will have a formal supportsystem and an informal support
system.
The ninth one is empowerment,and it's not like they may have
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never been empowered.
We have to help them reclaimtheir power, and that may be a
job.
That may be going back toschool, that may be as simple as
helping them connect to thepeople who have the services
they need, role-playing withthem, maybe talking on the phone
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first, and then eventuallythey're taking care of their own
business and you're juststanding there to support and
then eventually you're not thereat all.
They have reclaimed their powerand they can take care of
business.
The last one is healthcare.
We wanna make sure that anyacute issues or chronic issues
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you know, we did a study of1,000 women in my community who
had been incarcerated.
We separated those who had beenincarcerated for prostitution
at any time in their life andthose who had been involved or
accused, convicted, of othercrimes.
We ran the analysis and wefound that women who had been
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involved in prostitutionsuffered way more mental health
issues and way more healthconditions, such chronic health
conditions such as diabetes, waymore asthma, heart conditions,
those type of things.
So healthcare, not only likebumps and bruises and cuts and
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things that need immediateattention, but chronic
conditions, and we wanna getthem likely to a clinic as soon
as possible, but then over time,a primary care physician and
eventually we wanna work onpreventive care.
The healthier they get, themore we start to look at the
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other end, not victim survivor,but becoming a thriver.
So some of the preventive careis gonna be important.
So those are the 10 areas ofassessment that may be specific
to those involved in humantrafficking and then we can do
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deeper assessments by gettingthem in front of experts to take
care of these issues.
So, running through them againbasic needs, which includes food
, clothing, shelter and safetythat's number one.
Orientation and education,legal needs, mental health needs
, substance abuse needs,assessing for injury and
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impairment, services fordependence, life skills and
formal and informal supports,empowerment and healthcare.
If you have a screening tool orassessment tool, depending on
your agency, that covers thesecommon areas, then you are on
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the right track and some of yourclients will need perhaps one,
three, seven, eight.
Others will need two, six, fourand 10.
So your intervention, thetreatment plan, the work that
you do together, is still verymuch individualized to the
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client's needs and particularlythose issues the client wants to
work on.
So we want to empower themalways to make choices, even
though we might think you reallyneed to work on this area, if
they wanna work on a differentarea.
We want to empower that becausewe want to respect that and
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empower our survivors to makechoices.
So those are the 10 areas.
I hope you enjoyed the 200thepisode.
I hope you will get access toour focus screening tool for
youth about 12 to 17 years oldis what this tool is designed
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for, and continue the great workthat you do.
Till next time the fightcontinues.
Let's not just do something,let's do the best thing.
If you liked this episode ofEmancipation Nation, please
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