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Identifying Human Trafficking Victims in Healthcare Settings
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Identifying Human Trafficking Victims in Healthcare Settings

This post is co-written by Brittany Blevins, an MPH Student at the University of Southern California. The pervasiveness of human trafficking juxtaposed with its concealed nature can often make it difficult for victims to be identified in a clinical setting. There is no single manifestation of symptoms or diagnostic tools available to readily alert providers…

Racism and Human Trafficking
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Racism and Human Trafficking

As I commemorated Martin Luther King, Jr. this week and thought about racial justice, one area we don’t talk enough about is the racialized reality of human trafficking. According to the Congressional Black Caucus, 57.5 percent of all juvenile detention prostitution arrests were of Black children, and 40 percent of sex trafficking victims identified as…

January Is Human Trafficking Prevention Month
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January Is Human Trafficking Prevention Month

By now, many people have heard of human trafficking and slavery, but I always like to start any conversation about this issue with this fact: there are an estimated 50 million trafficked and enslaved people around the world. This number is shocking, but even more shocking is that this is a rise of over 10…

Human Trafficking on Ukraine’s Border
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Human Trafficking on Ukraine’s Border

As if Ukraine does not have enough going on, human traffickers are omnipresent on the borders between Ukraine and the West. The traffickers specialize in exploiting individuals traumatized by war. A Trained Intelligence Professional Recognizes Traffickers Last week, Stephen Komorek, CEO of API International Consulting Group, accompanied me to visit the border crossing at Medyka,…

Nursing Homes: A Growing Target for Labor Traffickers | Psychology Today
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Nursing Homes: A Growing Target for Labor Traffickers | Psychology Today

Human traffickers go after an industry burdened with high costs, short staffing by Mitzi Perdue MPA KEY POINTS Eldercare workers may be victims of force, fraud, or coercion. Human traffickers target immigrants, who may not know their rights. Trafficked caregivers may develop PTSD-like symptoms incompatible with caring for frail elders. Of the ten thousand Baby…

North Dakota's sex offender registry gets update to provide residents more information
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North Dakota's sex offender registry gets update to provide residents more information

BISMARCK, N.D. (KFYR) – In 1947, California became the first state in the US to have a sex offender registry program and, over the years, other states followed suit. North Dakota’s law was passed in 1991. The registries are meant to give residents the tools to protect themselves from victimization. Now, North Dakota’s registry is…

15-year-old Girl Snatched from Basketball Game and Trafficked to Another State
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15-year-old Girl Snatched from Basketball Game and Trafficked to Another State

Click a link below to jump to a particular article or scroll down to read the whole blog post. Local and regional IA coalition updates Thanks to hotel employees, missing girl found, and Michigan man charged with trafficking Labor trafficking case exposes farmworker abuses Why the average

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“Ve Haf Ways of Making You NOT Talk” | Psychology Today
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“Ve Haf Ways of Making You NOT Talk” | Psychology Today

A widely accepted statistic in the anti-trafficking community is that even though human trafficking is a crime, fewer than one in 100 traffickers will pay for it with jail time. The reason? Traffickers are adept at keeping their victims from testifying. A Porn Star Decides to Out Her Victimizers Take the case of the porn…

Psychology Today Interview with PBJ Learning’s Founders
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Psychology Today Interview with PBJ Learning’s Founders

Spreading awareness and knowledge through Psychology Today We are honored to have been interviewed by Mackenzie Littledale, who writes the “From Margin to Mainstream” blog for Psychology Today.  She spent well over an hour with us, covering so many topics. We can’t shut up when we start going, so the conversation flowed from one idea…

Is “Stranger Danger” Part of the Problem?
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Is “Stranger Danger” Part of the Problem?

Speak to your Children​ Parents, do these four things IMMEDIATELY for any child that can SPEAK: Step One: Arm Them With Language​ Teach your children the scientific name for their body parts. They need to know there ARE different parts of their body and they need to know how to identify *exactly* where someone touches…