Ending Human Trafficking

In this episode, Dr. Sandra Morgan and Dave Stachowiak introduce two previous federal prosecutors John Cotton Richmond and Victor Boutros to discuss the Human Trafficking Institute. They ask three questions that fall into anti-human trafficking strategies. How do we make people less vulnerable to traffickers? How do we care for survivors? How do we actually stop the traffickers? The answer is to start at the root of the problem. We need to understand the issues and the laws that are already in place. Then we need to understand how we can enforce the laws already in place and where we need to expand policies. Boutros shares that they will train specialized units to create a model of prosecutors and agents that are focused on human trafficking cases called the ACT Team. This episode challenges listeners to begin to think in innovative ways about how they can stop the crime at its source. It’s time we learn how to identify the traffickers, not just the victims, in order to be able to stop future exploitation.

Victor serves as the Chief Executive Officer of the Human Trafficking Institute and President of the Board of Directors. He is a co-founder of the Institute, which was launched in 2015. Prior to his role at the Institute, he served as a federal prosecutor in the U.S. Department of Justice’s Human Trafficking Prosecution Unit and trained law enforcement from different parts of the world on how to investigate and prosecute human trafficking. He is co-author with Gary Haugen of The Locust Effect: Why the End of Poverty Requires the End of Violence (Oxford Press). In 2016, Victor and Gary received the Grawemeyer Prize for Ideas Impacting World Order, awarded annually to the authors of one world-changing book based on originality, feasibility, and potential impact. Victor is a graduate of Baylor University, Harvard University, Oxford University, and the University of Chicago.

John Cotton Richmond

John Cotton Richmond serves as the United States Ambassador-at-Large to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons and leads the Department’s Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons. In October 2018, the Senate unanimously confirmed him and President Trump appointed him to lead the United States’ global engagement to combat human trafficking and support the coordination of anti-trafficking efforts across the U.S. government. Ambassador Richmond comes to the highest position in the federal government dedicated to combating human trafficking, after a distinguished career in the global battle for freedom. He co-founded the Human Trafficking Institute that exists to decimate modern slavery at its source by empowering police and prosecutors to use victim-centered and trauma-informed methods to hold traffickers accountable and ensure survivors are treated with respect and care.

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January is National Human Trafficking and Slavery Prevention Month. The We CAN Coalition of Orange County is all about working to end child abuse and neglect. On this show, Sandie and Dave have discussed community partnership as a key to human trafficking prevention work. We CAN Coalition is a local response model that can be replicated across the nation as a reputable way to do prevention. There are four necessary components for an effective collective: a clear common purpose, community engagement and co-production, relationships and trust, and results and accountability. For the purpose of ending human trafficking, it is imperative that people within same-minded organizations follow these components.

Resources:

We CAN Coalition Overview

Online Anti-Human Trafficking Certificate

Ensure Justice Conference: Build a Strong Child

Global Center for Women and Justice

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In this third part of the series on ethics and decision making, Dave, Sandie and Derek continue to explore the importance of ethics in collaborative work. Anti-human Trafficking Collaborations often happen between law enforcement, victim service providers, health care providers and centers, social service agencies, and faith-based/volunteer organizations. With all these collaborations happening to end human trafficking, ethical codes are difficult to maintain across all of these partnerships because each organization has different values and beliefs. The key is for partnerships to align their values and decide how to treat ethical dilemmas. It is imperative to share the same language among professionals to avoid conflict and confusion in collaborations.

Resources:

Derek Marsh- BJA Fellow

James Austin Book: The Collaboration Challenge

Online Anti-Human Trafficking Certificate

Josephson Institute of Ethics: 7 Step Path to Ethical Decision Making

Ensure Justice Conference: Build a Strong Child

Global Center for Women and Justice

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Co-host Dave Stachowiak and Dr. Sandra Morgan have a conversation with Retired Deputy Chief Derek Marsh who currently serves as the Bureau of Justice Assistance visiting fellow of human trafficking. In this episode, they discuss ethical decision making in right vs. right situations, such as justice vs. mercy or fairness vs. empathy situations that we have to address when combating human trafficking. Derek provides several ethical decision making (EDM) models that we can practice to master effective ethical decision making in our personal and professional fields.

Resources:

Derek Marsh- BJA Fellow

Online Anti-Human Trafficking Certificate

Author James Svara Resources : Ethical Triangle

Gary Tyra’s Pursuing Moral Faithfulness: Ethics and Christian Discipleship

Josephson Institute of Ethics: 7 Step Path to Ethical Decision Making

Ensure Justice Conference

Global Center for Women and Justice

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Co-host Dave Stachowiak and Dr. Sandra Morgan have a conversation with Retired Deputy Chief Derek Marsh who currently serves as the Bureau of Justice Assistance visiting fellow of human trafficking. In this episode, they discuss the ethical dilemmas that are faced when addressing human trafficking. When addressing human trafficking through the law enforcement, health care, or victim service provider perspectives, there are specific ethical dilemmas that become complicated when taking a victim-centered approach. There are a lot of different value systems that existence which shape our moral perspectives. One of the challenges Dr. Morgan faced early on in her career was understanding how to meet legal requirements in the tension of moral obligations. Derek Marsh helps pinpoint how to adopt, communicate and apply ethics in our field of work.

Resources:

Derek Marsh- BJA Fellow

A Question of Values- Hunter Lewis (1990)

Anti-Human Trafficking Certificate Program

Ensure Justice Conference

Global Center for Women and Justice

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The Ensure Justice Conference is GCWJ’s annual educational collaboration.  March 2017 marks the 10 year anniversary of Ensure Justice and the theme will be to “Build a Strong Child.” The question is how do we reduce the risk for kids and take preventative action against the rapidly growing industry of pornography and sex trafficking. The real secret to prevention is resiliency. To make “ensuring justice” the principle and the practice a highly valued aspect of fighting trafficking we have to make the story about resilience important. Collaboration happens at Ensure Justice when people get together to understand the value of advocating against human trafficking. Proverbs 31:8, “Be a voice for those that have no voice; ensure justice for those being crushed.” Ensure Justice conference will be focusing on building strong children in our community, around schools, and globally.

Resources:

Ensure Justice Conference

OCHTTF 2016 Victim Report

Anti-Human Trafficking Certificate Program

Global Center for Women and Justice

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In this episode, Director Sandra Morgan and GCWJ Board member Dave Stachowiak discuss the link between pornography and sex trafficking. Sandie Morgan did a webinar with the Religious Alliance Against Pornography to investigate this link which is an issue that most people can agree on. Pornography drives the demand for trafficking and is closely linked to the prosperity of the sex trafficking. The genre of pornography has become increasingly more violent as the appetite of viewers has become more demanding for more variety, and younger victims. The general public needs to understand the ramifications of this type of abuse on young people, for those involved in the production and for those consuming the pornography products as a sex education resource. Pornography is NOT a victimless crime- how can we protect our children?

Resources:

Porn: The New Sex-Education

RAAP Webinar: Religious Association against Pornography 

Podcast 37: Interview with Harmony Dust

Treasures Website

Netsmartz Resources: National Center for Missing and Exploited Children

It’s Okay to Tell Video

Anti-Human Trafficking Certificate Program

Global Center for Women and Justice

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In this episode, Director Sandra Morgan and GCWJ Board member Dave Stachowiak introduce Dr. Becca Johnson who is the International program director at Rescue Freedom International. Dr. Johnson discusses the strategy of trauma sensitivity and how it is different from trauma informed. She shares that by teaching trauma sensitive care instead of just trauma informed care, she wants people to engage their hearts and empathy, not just their head. It is not enough that they just have knowledge about what trauma is and how it affects people, but that they would truly understand as much as they can from a heart level as well.

We have to ask what’s going on with the survivor’s emotions, in the thinking processes. When this is understood, it makes outreach more effective. It breaks down barriers because those helping can understand by sharing some common thoughts and feelings. To be trauma sensitive is also being culturally sensitive which leads to being more empathetic.

Resources:

Anti-Human Trafficking Certificate Program

Global Center for Women and Justice

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In this episode, Director Sandra Morgan and GCWJ Board member Dave Stachowiak introduce Alicia Zayas who is a Vanguard Alum to discuss how to prepare a community to rescue individuals from human trafficking. Alicia shares that the best way to start out in the fight against human trafficking is to become educated about these issues and to get your community involved educationally. She touches on some of the implementation pieces that are key such as the education piece and outreach by reaching out to high schools, middle schools, youth through youth prevention summits, using training presentations, and going out and training local police departments. It’s all about studying the issues, being a voice, and making a difference. Alicia played a vital role in the successful bust of a human trafficking ring in Tulare County, California in August 2016. Read about it here, and here.

Alicia Woodard Zayas bio:

Alicia completed her BA in Sociology at Vanguard University with a Women’s Studies Minor, where she began her passion for ending human trafficking and served in the Global Center.  She volunteered with the OCHTTF to assist survivors and train volunteers for local outreach and Live2free students to go into OC schools.  She went on to complete her Masters in Social Work at Cal State University Bakersfield. For the last 4 years, she has been a part of the Tulare County Child Welfare Services as a social worker, where she helped create policies and procedures that tackle the issue of commercial exploitation of children. Her training programs equipped law enforcement and Child Welfare partners to serve the 52 victims of a recent human trafficking bust in Tulare County. She continues to sit on the Tulare County Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children (CSEC) Steering Committee providing training in Tulare County. Alicia is also in the process of becoming a Licensed Clinical Social Worker. Alicia was the recipient of the Director’s Young Leader Award at Priceless 2016. This award recognizes service by an outstanding young leader who has demonstrated extraordinary commitment to promoting justice for women and children through their work and leadership. Alicia was also the recipient of Vanguard’s 2017 Young Alumni of the Year award in March.

http://www.visaliatimesdelta.com/story/news/local/2016/08/22/operation-baby-face-phase-ii/89130698/

Resources:

Anti-Human Trafficking Certificate Program

Global Center for Women and Justice

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