Dr. Sandie Morgan and Dave Stachowiak review a 2018 Policy brief produced by the Society for Community Research and Action. It offers a guide to strengthening the human trafficking prevention conversation and allows us to review best practices.

Key Points

Raising awareness alone is not sufficient to prevent human trafficking. It must be used as part of a comprehensive prevention strategy rather than in isolation.

Encourage human trafficking task forces to place greater emphasis on primary prevention.

Facilitate primary prevention efforts by supporting community stakeholders’ collaborative use of data and corresponding approaches for addressing known risk factors. Ensure Justice 2020 is designed to build community stakeholder collaboration!

Resources

Evidence-Based Practices Resource Center | SAMHSA

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Transcript

Dave [00:00:00] You’re listening to the Ending Human Trafficking podcast. This is episode number 218, How to Strengthen the Human Trafficking Prevention Conversation.

Production Credits [00:00:10] Produced by Innovate Learning, maximizing human potential.

Dave [00:00:31] Welcome to the Ending Human Trafficking podcast. My name is Dave Stachowiak.

Sandie [00:00:37] And my name is Sandie Morgan.

Dave [00:00:39] And this is the show where we empower you to study the issues, be a voice, and make a difference in ending human trafficking. Sandie, one of the places we can make the biggest difference is on prevention. And we talk about prevention often, you and I, with many guests who mention the word prevention. It is, however, one thing to say prevention. It is another thing to actually prevent human trafficking. And today, I think we’re going to look at some of the distinction between that and how we can really be even more proactive and intentional with this work.

Sandie [00:01:13] Oh, I like that. That’s a great lead into this conversation. We probably did the most early conversation back in podcast 52, and we were focused on prevention of cyber exploitation. And we introduced a model that’s very simple to predict what the harm might be, devise a strategy to protect, and then practice that strategy. And we made the analogy of brushing your teeth. If you eat candy, we can predict you’re going to have cavities. So, what can we do to protect you? We can intervene and teach you how to brush your teeth. Not once, not twice, but every single day. So, practice, practice, practice. And when we look at the health care model, public health model for prevention, we usually identify it in three categories: primary, secondary and tertiary. And to make that very, very simple primary is there’s no disease. You have no problem. So, what can you do to avoid getting a disease? I remember when my grandpa got throat cancer and lung cancer and he told my sister and brother and I never smoke. So, he was doing primary prevention. He didn’t want us to pick up a habit that might lead to a very serious health consequence. So that’s primary, no disease, but we’re still going to take action. Secondary prevention is when we see early signs of some problem and we intervene early. We learn all the time in public health education, get this test done, make sure you have your mammogram done, because we want to find the problem as early as possible. That’s secondary prevention. It’s really associated with early intervention. So, if we’re talking about child trafficking and we see some signs that are risk factors, we would want to start a program, a plan, a strategy to intervene in that. And then the third, tertiary segment, is when there is already an established experience, either a health consequence or in our case, we know for sure someone has been trafficked, labor trafficked, or sex trafficked. And now our focus is on cure and care. And we’re going to focus mostly on the first two primary and secondary I think today though, Dave.

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