The presenter will explain simulation’s role in ensuring holistic education is provided to healthcare professionals regarding current medical processes, development and implementation of victim-based simulation, and community resources for healthcare providers and victims. The presenter will discuss programs already implemented within the Interprofessional Immersive Simulation Center at the University of Toledo.
Human Trafficking Recognition was developed in response to research indicating 87% of victims receiving medical treatment during captivity went unrecognized. This portion of the presentation will discuss the implementation of educational sessions and how they provide a framework for simulation scenarios. Utilizing both simulators and standardized patients, learners will observe the challenges in recognizing victims through video footage of simulations where red flags were incorporated into patient history and interaction.
 

Sexual Assault Patient Education has been developed into simulation for the purposes of enhancing Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner (SANE) training and to provide insight to other interprofessional providers on how this patient population should be cared for. This presentation will emphasize the benefits SANE programs gain from simulation practice and provide insight into development of curriculum for disciplines that do not regularly interact with sexual assault patients.

Presentation Objectives:

·         To identify innovative approaches to developing and implementing simulation scenarios with a focus on forensic science education.

·         To learn to incorporate new methods of training to augment SANE program education, competency and educate providers that work in areas lacking SANE resources.

To gain appreciation for the role healthcare providers play in identifying human trafficking victims and caring for the sexual assault patient. Presentation Objectives:

·         To provide the results of the 2015 & 2016 Youth Experience Survey

·         Contrast non-sex trafficking needs with victims of trafficking to help guide client needs

·         To discuss how to expand prevention and interventions for trafficking victims within a homeless, youth serving program

·         To build engagement strategies for existing clients to share their experiences and access services

To leverage community partners for needs such as legal, medical and housing.

Presentation Objectives:

·         To learn what human trafficking looks like in rural communities

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Two of the most prominent social justice issues of our time are human trafficking and oppression of sex/sexuality/gender minorities (Smith 2015; Tomaszewski, 2014), yet frequently overlooked is how these two issues converge. Yearly, hundreds of thousands of LGBTQ+ individuals are victimized through human sex trafficking (Martinez & Kelle, 2013). Moreover, they are at higher risk of being trafficked than their non-LGBTQ+ counterparts (Cochran, Stewart, Ginzler, & Cauce, 2002; Martinez & Kelle, 2013). In addition to a general awareness, what is often missing in the conversation is how and why this population is at particular risk of being sold for sex. This presentation will address awareness, prevention, intervention, and social justice of LGBTQ+ sex trafficking through a three step process. An overview of the research findings on this segment of the issue will be detailed, bringing the awareness into clear focus. Next, education will be provided on the issues faced by LGBTQ+ individuals which puts them at particularly high risk of being victimized. Finally, the presenter will provide specific, concrete tools that can be utilized to combat the trafficking of LGBTQ+ persons. Such resources include LGBTQ+-affirmative approaches (Rose & Baltrinic, 2016), which can be utilized by any professional or student across a wide-range of disciplines including law enforcement, criminal justice, social work, and counseling. Resources for prevention and social justice will also be provided. Through this approach, participants will leave this presentation with the information and resources to address the problem of LGBTQ+ human sex trafficking.
Presentation Objectives:

·         To provide the results of the 2015 & 2016 Youth Experience Survey

·         Contrast non-sex trafficking needs with victims of trafficking to help guide client needs

·         To discuss how to expand prevention and interventions for trafficking victims within a homeless, youth serving program

·         To build engagement strategies for existing clients to share their experiences and access services

To leverage community partners for needs such as legal, medical and housing.

Presentation Objectives:

·         To learn what human trafficking looks like in rural communities

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Homeless youth and young adults present increased risk factors and exploitation for sex traffickers. Tumbleweed Center for Youth Development in Phoenix, Arizona provides services for homeless youth ages 12-25 and wanted to explore increasing programs and interventions for youth who experienced sex trafficking. Our agency partnered with five other agencies and were awarded the demonstration grant for Domestic Victims of Human Trafficking through the Department of Health and Human Services. Along with the grant, Arizona State University’s Office of Sex Trafficking, Tumbleweed and two homeless youth service programs in Phoenix and Tucson, Arizona partnered on the Youth Experience Survey. The survey explores the trafficking experiences of homeless youth and young adults (18-25). This presentation will share insight from the findings of the survey, along with program development to assist in meeting the unique needs of homeless trafficking victims, including groups, counseling, healing, housing and supportive coordination amongst direct service providers in two counties.

Presentation Objectives:

·         To provide the results of the 2015 & 2016 Youth Experience Survey

·         Contrast non-sex trafficking needs with victims of trafficking to help guide client needs

·         To discuss how to expand prevention and interventions for trafficking victims within a homeless, youth serving program

·         To build engagement strategies for existing clients to share their experiences and access services

To leverage community partners for needs such as legal, medical and housing.

Presentation Objectives:

·         To learn what human trafficking looks like in rural communities

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Come to this session to learn how to navigate the disability program. Many survivors of trafficking may qualify for disability to for mental/emotional conditions or physical conditions. What is the basic definition of disability? This will be a great opportunity to learn how to help your clients with the process, and have a better understanding of what to expect. Who qualifies? What is the difference between SSI and Social Security? Can my client’s case be expedited? Is everyone denied the first time? What do people need to file for benefits? How do you file an appeal, and do you need an attorney? These are just some of the questions Social Security will answer. This session should help streamline the process so you can better help a friend, a client, a loved one, or even yourself. Social Security will also demonstrate how to access your own account online through Social Security’s website, and what a client will be eligible for.

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The objective of this presentation is to relay the impact of the heroin epidemic on the children caught in the aftermath of addiction and how they are used as sexual currency traded for a fix. The presenter will share 40 years of experience in working in the turbulent, violent, shame-filled underworld of abused and trafficked children. Ten thousand children have passed through the doors of One Way Farm Children's Home. The presenter will share founding the facility with only $59, growing to have 32 employees, an annual budget of $1.6M and serve the most innocent casualties of severely dysfunctional families. While it's noble to research, analyze data, and theorize about this national crisis, at its core, it's a human issue. Statistics don't mean much to the child whose only experience with adults is perversion. The essence of what we do is stabilization then normalization. Living with these victims, comforting them and sharing the presenter’s deeply abusive childhood gives them hope of a life beyond the hand they have been dealt. The presenter’s evidence based research is born from real life, and has shaped the experience based methods of what works in a real life scenario to turn children's lives around. To date, 10,000 children have been rescued and sent on a course they would never have otherwise known.Presentation Objectives:

·         To provide the results of the 2015 & 2016 Youth Experience Survey

·         Contrast non-sex trafficking needs with victims of trafficking to help guide client needs

·         To discuss how to expand prevention and interventions for trafficking victims within a homeless, youth serving program

·         To build engagement strategies for existing clients to share their experiences and access services

To leverage community partners for needs such as legal, medical and housing.

Presentation Objectives:

·         To learn what human trafficking looks like in rural communities

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Human trafficking affects every zip code in the United States, and happens in communities of every size in Ohio. This session will explore some commonalities and differences between what human trafficking looks like in rural communities and urban areas. Participants will also learn about the difference between human trafficking identification and response efforts in rural and urban areas. By examining existing recognition of and response to sex and labor trafficking broadly, the session will delve more deeply into how to create an effective human trafficking response in rural communities. The participants will practice identifying trafficking through a scenario exercise and will brainstorm tools and coordinated steps they can take to improve their own response, whether they serve a rural or an urban area. Finally, using a multi-disciplinary lens, the presenters will guide participants in developing a safety-focused response to human trafficking in their own communities.

 

Presentation Objectives:

·         To learn what human trafficking looks like in rural communities

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Although sex trafficking has been a social issue long before the conception of the Internet, the arrival of a world-wide network has increased sex traffickers’ reach and anonymity, potential victims’ vulnerability, and buyers’ selection. Via the Internet, sex traffickers can advertise trafficking victims anywhere in the world. When the trafficker decides to relocate the victim, they can easily change the name and number associated with the victim online. Traffickers can link the victim’s contact information to a “burner” cell phone that authorities are often unable to connect with a real identity. However, data mining initiatives allow law enforcement agencies and researchers to gather and analyze data from webpages that potentially contain sex trafficking information. For example, DARPA created the Memex program in order to index the data from webpages on the Deep Web. The Memex program shares similarities with popular search engines, which index the webpages that most users access every day. Gathering and analyzing data in new ways will allow for a greater understanding of how sex trafficking is being performed in the digital world, by providing insight into the modus operandi of sex traffickers, and providing valuable information about the victims themselves.

 

Presentation Objectives:

·         To describe how the advent of the digital age has influenced sex trafficking, as well as sex trafficking prevalence data;

·         To articulate the difficulty of tracking and collecting information about sex traffickers online;

To explain several possible solutions being implemented to aid researchers and law enforcement agencies. Presentation Objectives:

·         To provide the results of the 2015 & 2016 Youth Experience Survey

·         Contrast non-sex trafficking needs with victims of trafficking to help guide client needs

·         To discuss how to expand prevention and interventions for trafficking victims within a homeless, youth serving program

·         To build engagement strategies for existing clients to share their experiences and access services

To leverage community partners for needs such as legal, medical and housing.

Presentation Objectives:

·         To learn what human trafficking looks like in rural communities

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The Governor’s Ohio Human Trafficking Task Force was created in 2012 to help exploited children and adults facing dire circumstances in Ohio. Since its creation, partnerships with task force agencies, federal entities, and grassroots coalitions have yielded tremendous results in combatting trafficking in the state, particularly by building applicable and relevant resources that allow advocates and community leaders to enhance their local response to trafficking. Participants will leave this session with a greater understanding of how to practically utilize, apply and adapt existing tools and resources, all of which are free and readily available through the Task Force. This session will cover the key components that make up a strong and holistic response, and attendees will walk away with tangible and substantive information and tools to support and enrich their agency’s trafficking response.
 

Specifically, participants will walk through sample protocols for coalition building, learn about victim service standards and an online toolkit designed to support effective outreach to victims, review state and federal funding sources, and more. The tools, resources and protocols covered in this session were created in partnership with state, local and federal organizations, and are intended to be adapted by communities throughout Ohio working to address the crime of human trafficking. By attending this session, participants will gain practical, concrete information to support their day-to-day work in responding to trafficking.

Presentation Objectives:

·         To learn what human trafficking looks like in rural communities

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