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Domestic Youth Trafficking: Awareness and Empowerment

This presentation provides an understanding of domestic youth trafficking, who becomes victimized, how it occurs, and empowering strategies against this crime. Learn about labor trafficking, sex trafficking, and vulnerabilities that can lead to victimization. Discover how traffickers meet victims and traps they use. Empower yourself with knowledge about human trafficking and ways to protect your children. Presented by Jan Apisa, Director of Community Education at Victim Assistance Program.

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Domestic Youth Trafficking: Awareness and Empowerment

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  1. Victim Assistance Program Core Services • 24 Hour Crisis Intervention • Individual • Group • On Scene Response • Advocacy • Personal • Court • Victims’ Rights • Education • Summit Victim Assistance Academy • The Essentials

  2. Objectives At the conclusion of this presentation, participants will have a better understanding of: 1. what domestic youth trafficking (modern day slavery) is; 2. who becomes victimized by the crime of sex trafficking and victim vulnerabilities; 3. how (easily) youth domestic sex trafficking occurs; and 4. how to become empowered against this crime.

  3. What is Domestic Youth Trafficking • Labor Trafficking and Exploitation • Agriculture • Domestic Work • Cleaning Services • Carnivals • Door-to-Door Sales Crews • **Sex Trafficking and Exploitation • Prostitution • Pornography • Stripping

  4. Youth Who Become Victimized • Those with vulnerabilities • Missing (runaway); family disfunction; substance abuse; mentally ill; lack of social support system; and poverty • Those that do not have vulnerabilities • General Neglect • All youth – Trafficking in America’s Schools, U.S. Department of Education 2015 Study

  5. Where Traffickers/Pimps Meet Their Victims and How They Become Trapped • How • Boyfriend – psychological allegiance • Human brain in not fully developed until the age of 25 • Where • The Internet, Social Media, Smart Phone Apps • Makes the world small, all geographical areas reachable • Continually changing • Youth are the experts • Sexting • Gaming • Common locations where teens hang out (libraries, malls, parties, school, friends) • Parties, DO NOT leave drinks unattended • Public areas, warn kids modeling, modeling or job opportunities that are too good to be true • Schools, friends of friends

  6. How Youth Without Risk Factors or Vulnerabilities Become Victims • Traffickers / Pimps • CEO • Familia • Romeo/Finesse** • Gorilla

  7. Empowerment- What You Can Do • Learn about human trafficking – what it looks like, how it happens, etc. • Do your own research of reliable sources for current human trafficking information and don’t sensationalize the topic • Continually increase your knowledge of the internet, social media, apps, gaming • And how easy it is for children fall into the hands of those without good intentions • TALK to your children about the dangers of the internet, sex trafficking, texting, apps • Age appropriate topics • During snippets in time that are ideal for younger children • Talk to your children’s school about providing expert training to the school staff and middle and high school students

  8. Victim Assistance Program Resource List For Parents: • How to Talk to your Kids about Human Trafficking • Dangerous Apps for Youth • Safe Portals • Internet Slang: Acronyms and Emoticons Used by Teens • Online Gaming Safety

  9. Presented by: Jan Apisa, CA Director of Community Education| Victim Assistance Program japisa@victimassistanceprogram.org

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