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OVCRC

01/22/2013

Is Safe Horizon a national or local organization that provides services to youth and/or adults?

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Ursula

01/22/2013

Safe Horizon is a NYC based organization. The programs provi...

Danny Stewart

01/23/2013

What is domestic sex trafficking?

Mike Soto

01/22/2013

The federal Trafficking Victims Protection Act defines sex t...

Fiona Mason

02/11/2013

How can state law enforcement tell the difference between a regular runaway and a RHY youth and know how to deal with each one? Safe Horizons?

Anthony Stokes

01/22/2013

Usually after immediate crisis of running away, the goals ar...

Danny Stewart

01/25/2013

If a youth is under the age of 18, then the local child prot...

Danny Stewart

01/25/2013

What laws are currently in place to protect human/sex trafficking victims, especially minors? What can we do to help change the perception that victims choose to be in these circumstances, especially when ...

Antonella

01/22/2013

This is Sex Workers Anonymous - founded in 1987. It's been ...

Jody Williams

02/27/2013

Under the TVPA, minors in commercial sex need not show forc...

Gretchen Hunt

01/22/2013

I'm curious about any known or presumptive implications of housing and treating RH youth together with victims of trafficking.

John Moon

01/22/2013

Part 2: We have found that running a safe shelter means prio...

Fiona Mason

02/11/2013

Safe Horizon Streetwork Project has operated a youth shelter...

Fiona Mason

02/11/2013

In recent interactions with HT in our agency, we've noticed that there seems to be a discrepency with state laws and charging minors with prostitution. Are the laws different in other states and are charg...

Andrew

01/22/2013

Laws do vary state by state. The Polaris Project provides an...

Danny Stewart

01/23/2013

What have you learned is not helpful in assisting homeless/runaway victims? How also, might outreach to LGBT youth be different than outreach to other communities?

Gretchen Hunt

01/22/2013

This is Sex Workers Anonymous - founded in 1987. Our experie...

Jody Williams

02/27/2013

Part 2: Outreach to LGBT youth would need to be done sensiti...

Danny Stewart

01/25/2013

Part 1: What is not helpful in providing services to youth i...

Danny Stewart

01/25/2013

How can a youth service provider protect a young victim of trafficking without betraying trust?

Total Postings: 3

NCFY

01/22/2013

Part 2: Youth are entitled to know this information before t...

Fiona Mason

02/11/2013

Youth service providers can protect youth without betraying ...

Fiona Mason

02/11/2013

My state’s Department of Children’s Services (DCS) has mandated that children identified as victim of human trafficking receive appropriate services. However, when the children enter the syste...

MMM

01/22/2013

Are Child Protective Services often involved with these youth? If so, what is their role in screening and identifying these youth?

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Stacey S.

01/22/2013

This will vary state by state, but in NY, CPS would get invo...

Lynn Baniak

01/22/2013

What role, if any, do you think the early sexualization phenomenon (sexualized portrayals in media, earlier puberty, youth access to porn online, etc.) plays in making girls vulnerable to sexual exploitati...

Jen Smith

01/22/2013

If your public awareness campaign is out of the mouths of su...

Jody Williams

02/28/2013

Is anyone doing this kind of education via their Street Outr...

Jen Smith

01/23/2013

If a victim is offered a way out or taken out of a trafficking situation, what are some of the key services and supports that are generally needed for them to successfully stay out?

Sarah

01/22/2013

When I started Sex Workers Anonymous in 1987 - I had Mayor B...

Jody Williams

02/28/2013

In terms of services, clients most often ask for help with i...

Fiona Mason

01/23/2013

This is a great, but difficult question to answer as each vi...

Fiona Mason

01/23/2013

There are different perspectives about keeping the youth safe and secure in a setting to prevent running away from a facility. what are some appropriate ways to protect the young person without sending the...

Total Postings: 3

Meredith Reese

01/22/2013

Part 2: This is not to say that guidelines and expectations ...

Danny Stewart

01/23/2013

Part 1: Youth run away for various reasons. Youth may run aw...

Danny Stewart

01/23/2013

We are a child advocacy center that provides help to child victims of sexual abuse, including specialized interviewing and medical exams. How do you suggest that we get started with child sex trafficking,...

Jonquil B

01/22/2013

In NY, we are exploring the ways that CACs (and muti-discipl...

Lynn Baniak

01/22/2013

Do you recommend residential treatment facilities for these youth ? If you do can you share why and share some names of residential treatments that know how to work with these youth

karicia corum

01/22/2013

If a youth does not have safe shelter options and wants to b...

Fiona Mason

02/11/2013

Have their been any studies conducted about the various services provided to runaway youth victims? If not studies, recommended articles or websites that can be used as good resources?

Shauna Perkins

01/22/2013

Here is a link to Runaway and Homeless Youth (RHY) services,...

Michelle

01/22/2013

I haven't seen any public awareness campaigns/initiatives that educate the public about human trafficking and what they can do help put an end to it. Do any campaigns exist? I have done several for aware...

kelly

01/22/2013

In Oklahoma we have an awareness campaign called shes13.com....

Barbara Murray

01/22/2013

What is being done to prevent runaway and homeless youth from being on the streets and in vulnerable situations that leave these young people in danger of being trafficked and exploited?

Darla Bardine

01/22/2013

Part 2: On the positive side, Office of Victims of Crime has...

Fiona Mason

02/11/2013

Nothing positive, the trend is toward cutting resources and ...

Fiona Mason

02/11/2013

How familiar and trained to identify sex trafficking of minors are professionals/workers in runaway youth services? Housing and emergency shelters are scarce in many communities, but in particular, smalle...

Jennifer Cole

01/22/2013

Part 5: Unfortunately there are no magical solutions to thes...

Fiona Mason

02/11/2013

Part 4: 250 youth shelter beds are far too few for NYC, but ...

Fiona Mason

02/11/2013

Part 3: Housing (especially affordable housing) and emergenc...

Fiona Mason

02/11/2013

Part 2: However, the programs that consciously and intention...

Fiona Mason

02/11/2013

Part 1: As with all fields, runaway and homeless youth (RHY)...

Fiona Mason

02/11/2013

I have recently attended a Human Trafficking training which focused on urban areas. I'm wondering if there are trends to be conscious of in more rural areas and are there some best practices which could be...

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Brandi

01/22/2013

Good question. I'm not sure how much of a response I can pro...

Danny Stewart

01/25/2013

Describe appropriate treatment programs for adolescents victims of HT.

Meredith Reese

01/22/2013

Meeting the self-defined needs of the adolescent, supporting...

Fiona Mason

02/11/2013

How can service providers give effective referrals to this population in a rural area with sparse social services.

Julia

01/22/2013

1. Polaris Project who runs the National Human Trafficking R...

Fiona Mason

01/23/2013

In searching for emergency housing options, we are often faced by the barrier of drug addiction in that most, if not all, crisis housing options will not take people who are actively using or cannot provid...

Chelsea Phelps

01/22/2013

Part 2: It is a good idea to develop a plan that includes th...

Danny Stewart

01/25/2013

Part 1: I agree, this is a huge barrier to providing service...

Danny Stewart

01/25/2013