Emancipation Nation

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Looking for a trauma treatment therapist? Know why it's important to find a knowledgeable and trained trauma treatment therapist with lived experience? Listen to Katie discuss the first survivor led organization addressing  comprehensive services for human trafficking survivors in Michigan including trauma treatment therapy.

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Listen to what Youth Underground does as they work with youth to prevent human trafficking. They put into practice the nine most effective elements of evidence-based prevention practice.  I go over the nine elements that you can use to develop your best practice prevention program. 

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How do you become an FBI agent? What do FBI agents do? What does a Victim-Witness Specialist do? What types of law enforcement approaches work and don't work?  Learn this and more from a veteran agent that worked on human trafficking cases.  Also, become a consultant for his new book!

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Connection to culture, understanding historical trauma, and removing shame associated with victimization are some of the key elements that should be considered and included when we work with indigenous populations. Learn more about indigenous populations in the U.S. and the trauma they have experienced.

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How much do our unconscious biases unintentionally hurt the people and the movement we claim to want to help? We all have a level of unconscious bias. Let's take the shame out of it, acknowledge it,  own it, and work on a daily basis to change it.

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In this episode we dive deeper into learning more about male victims of sex trafficking with trauma informed researcher Ena Lucia Mariaca Pacheco, who interviewed 40 male survivors of child sexual abuse, including 12 trafficking survivors, 10 of which were trafficked by family members.

Disclaimer: the opinions expressed in this episode are those of the researcher. They do not reflect the opinions or views of INTERPOL or its members.

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Alternative therapies such as mind-body work has been viewed by some as critical to survivor healing. Learn more about Trauma-Informed Yoga including what it is, how it works, and why it is helpful.

When people treat you as if you don't matter and you believe you don't matter, you lose  a sense of self preservation and personal safety. Are you able to build back from that? How do you build back from that? Listen to the amazing Dr. Beth tell her story, her journey back to the life she wanted, and how she works to improve the lives of others today.

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Dr. Heather Evans wrote two books on trauma and human trafficking survivors. Too often advocates understand the word "trauma" but don't know how to help survivors heal. We say we are "walking along side" survivors, but do not know where we're going in our healing journey. Learn the importance of being trauma-informed and know the difference between trauma-informed work and trauma treatment. 

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A multi-pronged approach to serving victims of human trafficking without a parallel multi-strategic response to traffickers makes little sense. We can't solve the problem by largely attending to only one side of the equation. Our current strategy of "putting the bad guys in jail" is a limited strategy. But what do we know about traffickers? What can we do that involves more than "putting the bad guys in jail?"