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161 – Orphan Care in Tanzania with Brandon Stiver Jan 08, 2018

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Dr. Sandra Morgan and Dave Stachowiak talk to Brandon Stiver about how having his own family totally changed his perspective on caring for orphan children and why family-based care is so much better than orphanage-based care.

Key Points

Tanzania’s official policy is actually family-first, but that doesn’t always play out in reality.
The vast majority of children that end up in alternative care really shouldn’t be there in the first place.
90% of children in orphanages worldwide have at least one living parent.
An orphanage should be the last resort — there are many other options for children.
Orphans often become a commodity for orphanages because they help raise money.

“It is the belief of Kingdom Families in accordance with Tanzanian policy as well as scripture that family-based care is the highest standard of care for a child. We believe that every child has a right to be raised in a family.”

—Brandon Stiver

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Dave: [00:00:00] You’re listening to the Ending Human Trafficking podcast. This is episode number 161, Orphan Care in Tanzania with Brandon Stiver.

Production Credits: [00:00:09] Produced by Innovate Learning, maximizing human potential.

Dave: [00:00:29] Welcome to the Ending Human Trafficking podcast. My name is Dave Stachowiak.

Sandie: [00:00:34] And my name is Sandie Morgan.

Dave: [00:00:37] And this is the show where we empower you to study the issues, be a voice, and make a difference in ending human trafficking. Sandie, so glad to be back with you here in the new year. And today a conversation I know that will be yet another lens that is so important for us to know about on elements that relate to human trafficking. And I know Brandon is going to really provide a lot of perspective on care for children. And we talk a lot about children on this podcast of course, but Brandon is going to I know bring us a new perspective. He is an alum of Vanguard University, where the Global Center for Women and Justice of course here is based. And Brandon Stiver grew up on the central coast of California and has been working in orphan care in Tanzania since 2010. Originally working at a Christian orphanage for a couple of years, Brandon realized that even the best of institutions fall dramatically short of meeting the child’s deepest and most intimate needs. Brandon’s deepest desire for Kingdom Families is to continue seeing orphaned, vulnerable and abandoned children restored to God’s first construct, the family. Brandon lives in Moshi, Tanzania with his wife Melissa and their three children. Brandon, we’re so glad to welcome you to the show.

Brandon: [00:01:58] Thanks it’s really great to be on.

Sandie: [00:02:00] It was especially exciting for me to have him visit Vanguard this fall, and speak to my commercially sexually exploited class. And I think one of the things I noticed about him first when he turned on his slides and started presenting. And of course, my students are focused on prevention and globally when we look at issues of slavery and human trafficking, children are some of the most marginalized. So when he started his slides the first thing I noticed is that there were no pictures of him surrounded by smiling orphans. And I thought Brandon, I’m so proud you’re a Vanguard alum, thank you for coming on our own human trafficking show.

Brandon: [00:02:44] Thank you, Dr. Morgan.

Sandie: [00:02:46] Now in your bio it talks about how you started and you responded to the passion and the compassion really for children in places where there are not a lot of resources and we all know that following the AIDS crisis in Africa, caring for children became a huge issue. So how did you make the shift from working at an orphanage to developing a family-based solution?

Brandon: [00:03:13] Yeah so it is really interesting kind of looking back at the breadth of what we’ve been engaged in for almost a decade now. When I first moved to Tanzania my focus was, I literally felt God calling me to go run an orphanage in Africa. So, I kind of went with that idea of what things were going to be like and started to pursue that. And I worked with some really great people, and they really love the kids, and there was good funding. But when we started to kind of recognize, you know a couple of years in, that there really wasn’t anything done for the kids to make it into families. That it was kind of like you know the kids are going to come in, and this is where they’re going to remain. So just different things were changing in our own families during that time, my wife Melissa and I got pregnant. We started to walk this parenthood journey which really teaches you a lot as well. And I started to recognize wow this really is God’s plan, it’s for a husband and wife to have kids. And that was kind of the impetus that compelled us toward starting Kingdom Families, which we started in 2014. So, you know the first four years of us being engaged in Tanzania, we were doing institutional care and working with the church in other ways. But it was really that understanding of what family is that compelled us towards pursuing family-based options.

Sandie: [00:04:45] So I love your website because I’m all about personally partnering public-private with our institution Vanguard University and our government. So on your website, one of the statements I copied and pasted because I liked it so much, is “it is the belief of Kingdom Families, in accordance with Tanzanian policy as well as scripture, that family-based care is the highest standard of care for a child. We believe that every child has a right to be raised in a family.” I love that, the highest standard of care. And we want the best possible care for our children. So, what is Tanzanian policy and how do you implement that?

Brandon: [00:05:31] Yes. So, there’s actually this gap, unfortunately, which you see in a lot of the developing countries. You can have it might be UNICEF, or maybe other NGOs, it could be just copying and ...

160 – The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime: An Interview with Panagiotis Papadimitriou Jan 01, 2018

Show notes

Dr. Sandra Morgan and Dave Stachowiak talk to Panagiotis Papadimitriou to discuss the important work he is doing at UNODC. They discuss the legal database and research he is conducting. They also talk about the difference between human trafficking and migrant smuggling and why it is so critical to understand the distinction.

Key Points

Much of UNODC’s work revolves around developing studies and conducting research.
UNODC’s target audience is people involved in the criminal justice processes.
UNODC maintains a database that allows practitioners to search for past cases to use as a reference.
Many people, including government officials, confuse and conflate human trafficking with migrant smuggling.
Human trafficking revolves around the key concept of exploitation.
Human smuggling involves moving from one person to another location illegally, but this often leads to human trafficking.
Trafficking victims often have more protections than illegal migrants.

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Dave: [00:00:00] You’re listening to the Ending Human Trafficking podcast. This is episode number 160, The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime.

Production Credits: [00:00:08] Produced by Innovate Learning, maximizing human potential.

Dave: [00:00:30] Welcome to the Ending Human Trafficking podcast. My name is Dave Stachowiak.

Sandie: [00:00:35] And my name is Sandie Morgan.

Dave: [00:00:38] And this is the show where we empower you to study the issues, be a voice, and make a difference in ending human trafficking. Sandie, one of the great benefits that I’ve gotten just on a purely selfish level over the years of being a cohost on the show with you is learning so many things about the world, organizations that you’ve partnered with Sandie, and so much about this issue. And one of the institutions that I’ve learned a little bit about in that time is the United Nations. And I’m really excited today to be able to learn more about a part of the United Nations I’m very unaware of and I think our audience will learn a lot too. And today’s guest comes from the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, and his name is Panagiotis Papadimitriou. Panagiotis is a Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice officer working in the human trafficking and migrant smuggling section of the Organized Crime Branch of the division of treaty affairs under the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime headquarters. He joined Sandie in Athens, Greece for the conference on human trafficking during the Greece summer study abroad. And Sandie, that was this past summer wasn’t it.

Sandie: [00:01:51] That’s right. And we’ve been invited back. So welcome to the show. We’ll dispense with formalities and we’re just going to call you Takis because you’ve become a great friend and we have learned so much from you since meeting you in Greece this last summer.

Panagiotis: [00:02:09] Thank you very much, Sandie. I have to say I’m very glad to be here with you and talk to you. And actually, it was a great pleasure for me to join you in Athens. And I have to tell you that I have learned an equal lot if not more than you did through my participation there.

Sandie: [00:02:29] You are very kind. First of all, though, let’s tell our listeners about what the UNODC actually is and why combating human trafficking is situated in that office in Vienna.

Panagiotis: [00:02:44] Well you know this is first of all the department of the Secretariat of the United Nations and is actually the department that is mandated by the member states to deal with issues related to drugs and crime countering gangs, drug crime, preventing drug abuse and criminality, and helping states implementing the different international instruments and relating to drugs and crime. Now my section, the team I’m working with is actually the section of UNODC which is specifically dealing with the international instruments on trafficking in persons and the smuggling of migrants. That is the United Nations protocol to prevent, suppress, and punish trafficking in persons, especially women and children. And the United Nations protocol against the smuggling of migrants by land, sea, and air which are both supplementing the Convention Against Transnational Organized Crime. So UNODC is I would say the guardian of international instruments, which means that we are responsible to assist states in implementing them. And when it comes to trafficking, to take all the measures that is necessary to criminalize trafficking in persons, in accordance with international definition agreed in the protocol, to protect the victims of trafficking, to prevent trafficking, and also to partner among them, among the states, but also with other people in the civil society or international organizations. Because you know very well, that trafficking in persons is a multifaceted phenomenon where it requires a holistic response to be addressed. So, this is the role for UNODC and trafficking, mainly supporting states also coordinating with other agencies. And I would say a great deal of our work in developing studies and doing research into human trafficking.

Sandie: [00:05:19] And that’s a really interesting place to start because when I went on the UNODC website and looked for a human trafficking, I began to discover so many resources that would help me in the classroom where I’m teaching on human trafficking. We also have had an anti-human trafficking certificate. And so, it’s been easy for me to find examples of case law, legislation, those sorts of things because your office produces the human trafficking knowledge portal. And when you say knowledge portal and I click on that, it’s not one or two articles, it is an entire bibliography database included there. So, can you tell me how you developed that knowledge base and how it’s maintained so that I know that it’s up to date.

Panagiotis: [00:06:19] Well, first of all to keep it up to date is our responsibility. Right? As UNODC we are really doing our best to do that. So, the anti-trafficking knowledge portal is essentially a database of legislation on the one hand and on occasion the jurisprudence on the other hand. Anti-trafficking legislation is provided to us mainly by member states that are requested officially to do so but also through research that we are conducting and the results of which are validated of course with the member states. Case law equally comes from experts that we have been working with in different jurisdictions and consists mainly on judgements and decisions of the courts of first instance, the second instance, or Supreme Courts that are publicly available. I have to say we are very proud of that because a couple of months ago we have reached the threshold of one hundred states. So, we have the case l...

159 – What is a Medical Home? Dec 17, 2017

Show notes

Dr. Sandra Morgan and Dave Stachowiak talk to Dr. Ron Chambers about the importance of teaching physicians proper patient care systems for trafficking victims in order to build better medical homes.

Key Points

Few medical students receive human trafficking training.
We need to meet the need of the patient population not just in the first days or weeks, but long term.
Community agencies are often wary of bringing victims to medical providers because they are afraid the victims will be re-traumatized.
Many victims leave safe houses because the environment is so unfamiliar.
You need to be able to meet victims where they’re at. Do they need physical help or mental health services? We must be prepared to provide both.
Young men and boys are an underserved trafficking victim community.

“The physician education, training, and development of a human trafficking victim medical home developed at the Dignity Health Family Medicine Residency Program has been conceptualized and implemented with incredible success. We hope to spread the concept to residencies clinics throughout the country and standardize human trafficking victim and survivor care in physician education and training across the country. It is a viable solution with the potential to synergistically provide widespread healthcare that coincides with training the physicians of tomorrow to recognize and treat this vulnerable patient population.”
—Dr. Ron Chambers

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Dave: [00:00:00] You’re listening to the Ending Human Trafficking podcast. This is episode number 159, What is a Medical Home? An interview with Dr. Ron Chambers.

Production Credits: [00:00:10] Produced by Innovate Learning, maximizing human potential.

Dave: [00:00:34] Welcome to the Ending Human Trafficking podcast. My name is Dave Stachowiak.

Sandie: [00:00:39] And my name is Sandie Morgan.

Dave: [00:00:41] And this is the show where we empower you to study the issues, be a voice and make a difference in ending human trafficking. Sandie, each episode we work to bring something that’s most relevant to our listening community or to bring a guest that will really help us to expand our knowledge. And today is no different. I’m excited

Sandie: [00:01:05] I am too, Dr. Ron Chambers is a program director DIO at Family Medicine Residency Program Chair and his work at Mercy Family Health Center and Mercy Human Trafficking Clinic is to me just very cutting edge and it’s emerging best practice. So, we want to welcome Dr. Chambers to Ending Human Trafficking.

Ron: [00:01:30] Well, thank you for having me.

Sandie: [00:01:32] OK so one of the quotes that I have from you that was kind of a catalyst that made me want to go and see what you were doing, so I actually went and visited Dr. Chambers in Sacramento when I was up there for the California Sociological Association conference. And he said, “the physician education, training, and development of a human trafficking victim medical home developed at the Dignity Health Family Medicine Residency program has been conceptualized and implemented with incredible success. We hope to spread the concept to residencies clinics throughout the country and standardize human trafficking victim and survivor care in physician education and training across the country. It is a viable solution with the potential to synergistically provide widespread health care that coincides with training the physicians of tomorrow to recognize and treat this vulnerable patient population.” And so, can you expand on that? That inspired me so much.

Ron: [00:02:47] Oh well thank you, Sandra. I do think the idea is a viable construct for providing care to this patient population. I became involved with work with human trafficking victims and survivors a few years back after Dignity Health the hospital system I worked for launched an initiative to take on the issue of human trafficking. And they have spent millions of dollars and we’ve spent thousands of hours training the workforce throughout the 43 hospitals in our system and creating a system-wide effort where the hospitals and the personnel working within the hospitals have been trained on human trafficking and to have an approach to patient care that is victim-centered and trauma-informed and survivor lead with Holly Gibbs being the program director for the system. I feel very fortunate that we were involved early on in that initiative and helped write the protocols and be a part of the work that was being done. But what was interesting pretty early on is we recognized that when we were identifying patients when we are identifying victims within the hospital setting we were dealing with people that of course had in days, weeks, months, years, even decades of trauma and abuse. And the protocols themselves were very effective at enabling us to help these patients get removed from trafficking situations and connected with the resources, and law enforcement, and safe houses, and case management services. But there really was an ongoing need for longitudinal medical care. And so that’s what we really focused on addressing at least at Mercy Family Health Center And within our residency program was creating a system within the clinic that could meet the needs of this patient population not just in the first 24 hours or first week but over the course of years and their lifetimes. It really has made enormous success for perspective over the last eight to 10 months since the beginning of the new year January 1st. We’ve seen approximately 110 new trafficking victims within our center.

Sandie: [00:05:07] Wow.

Ron: [00:05:07] And I think our average number is average across the board on there is about four to five clinic visits per patient. So that’s four to five hundred office visits within our center. And I really believe that putting this within the residency education makes sense.

Sandie: [00:05:28] When I read that quote the first time I was reading something online, I had just learned about what you were doing. And I come from a medical background although I haven’t been active in acute care, our listeners know I’m a nurse. But I was really excited about the idea of a medical home and it was really embarrassing when I arrived to visit you and realized that I didn’t even understand what a medical home was. And the more I thought about it, after learning so much from you in just that hour that I spent there, the concept of a home of always knowing you can go back there. That’s part of the success with developing relationships with victims and survivors because they can always come back. That you’re now using technical terminology longitudinal care or services and expa...

158 – Health and Human Services: TAG – Think Act Grow Dec 03, 2017

Show notes

Dr. Sandra Morgan and Dave Stachowiak talk about TAG, which stands for “Think, Act, Grow.” TAG is a “multi-sector approach that challenges organizations and professionals to improve adolescent health through a strengths-based, positive youth development approach that emphasizes youth engagement.”

Key Points

The TAG initiative acknowledges the limitations of the adolescent brain but it also focuses on the unique strengths that adolescents bring.
Adolescents are very quick to learn.
How do you use the ability to learn quickly as a point of resilience for adolescents?
There is now a rush to create a curriculum to support adolescents, but many of the creators don’t understand the whole picture.
Prevention usually has the least amount of resources devoted to it.
Adolescents can easily find information, but they need help processing it.
Risk can be a positive thing because it leads to growth.
Youth leading youth is much better than adults telling them what to do.

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Dave: [00:00:00] You’re listening to the Ending Human Trafficking podcast. This is episode number 158, Health and Human Services: TAG Think Act Grow.

Production Credits: [00:00:10] Produced by Innovate Learning, maximizing human potential.

Dave: [00:00:30] Welcome to the Ending Human Trafficking podcast. My name is Dave Stachowiak.

Sandie: [00:00:36] And my name is Sandie Morgan.

Dave: [00:00:38] And this is the show where we empower you to study the issues, be a voice, make a difference in ending human trafficking, and not duplicate the things other people are doing right, Sandie.

Sandie: [00:00:50] That’s right.

Dave: [00:00:52] We talk a lot on this show about the desire that all of us have to help and to serve. And in particular around the challenges of this issue the willingness that so many people have Sandie who hears about the dangers and horrors and awful stories around human trafficking to jump in right away and help. And one of the messages we’ve had is a consistent story over the last few years, story is maybe not the right word, but is to educate all of us on the fact that before we jump in with both feet and work to help one of the best ways we can help is often aligning with the resources, agencies, organizations that are already doing things. That rather than us reinventing the wheel, we can support in a very strategic way and I believe that today’s conversation Sandie we’re going to really jump into that again as a reminder for us through a different lens.

Sandie: [00:01:53] Absolutely. And I have to tell you that when I discovered TAG, I really looked at myself first. Why did I not go to the Health and Human services adolescent page? They have so many resources. And here we are thinking that we’re out here on our own fighting human trafficking and trying to build kids who are able to have the kind of developmental assets that make them more resilient. And how do we empower kids to say no to some of the lures that we’ve talked about on this show that lead to the commercial sexual exploitation of our children and even labor trafficking like we mentioned in the latest episode on homeless youth? And eight percent are lured into labor trafficking. So, when I discovered their TAG initiative, I just dove in with both feet and I recognized some of the markers for what we’ve already identified our best practices in doing prevention with young people.

Dave: [00:03:08] And just to take the 35,000-foot level view here for a moment Sandie so there are a number of government agencies that support awareness and prevention on human trafficking. The State Department probably is the most apparent one that we’ve talked about on the show. For those who aren’t aware, how does Health and Human Services interact with and coordinate with some of those other government agencies?

Sandie: [00:03:33] Health and Human Services at a national level, they have different offices. They actually have an office on human trafficking and one of our Orange County friends that we’ve interviewed here when she was the Nets director for Salvation Army in Orange County, Sherry Harris, actually works there and is developing technical assistance tools to train communities on human trafficking. But Health and Human Services does so much more than that. And they’re of course as their name says health they are looking at health and wellness from a physical, psychological, emotional issue and they want to be able to prepare the community and the responsible leaders to address those issues. So, providing tools and resources, they are a funding agency and people apply for grants that are best practice evidence-based efforts to extend those. And the adolescent office has a lot of work that they’ve done on resilience. They’ve done work on drug abuse and teens, other addictions, the brain, and addiction. They have toolkits. And one of the things that’s pretty interesting from my perspective is they haven’t labeled anything with human trafficking or any of the very sensational stories of what happens to marginalize kids sometimes. So, their tools are very accessible for everyday people and in fact in this particular initiative they talk about the call to action to improve adolescent health because you know if you’re stronger you’re going to have more resilience and resistance to illness and disease and other environmental aspects of your life. So, the Think Act Grow, TAG, is described on their webpage as “a multi-sector approach, challenging organizations and professionals to improve adolescent health through a strengths-based positive youth development approach that emphasizes youth engagement.” Now we back in episode number 109, we did an episode on Prevention-Saving Up for a Rainy Day. Because we looked at how using developmental assets actually prepare you for when the big storms come so that you can overcome. And so, this is a little less complicated. I don’t know if y...

157 – Using your Expertise as a Volunteer: An Interview with Attorney Jessica Springer Nov 19, 2017

Show notes

Jessica Springer joins Dr. Sandie Morgan and Dave Stachowiak to talk about dual-jurisdiction children (part of the criminal justice system and the dependency system like foster homes) and how judges aren’t able to make good decisions if they don’t know the child’s full background. They also talk about current and upcoming human trafficking bills in California.

Key Points

The majority of children involved in human trafficking come from a dual-jurisdiction population.
Family violence is often the root of kids becoming dual-jurisdiction.
The majority of children who get involved in human trafficking have a history of sexual abuse.
When judges look at cases and don’t know the whole background, they can’t make well-informed decisions.
There is a debate on whether it is better to have more legislation or to have less, but more effective legislation.
Internet safety training is important, even at a young age.
80% of sexual trafficking recruiting happens online.

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Dave: [00:00:00] You’re listening to the Ending Human Trafficking podcast. This is episode number 157, Using Your Expertise as a Volunteer – An Interview with Attorney Jessica Springer.

Production Credits: [00:00:11] Produced by Innovate Learning, maximizing human potential.

Dave: [00:00:31] Welcome to the Ending Human Trafficking podcast. My name is Dave Stachowiak.

Sandie: [00:00:37] And my name is Sandie Morgan.

Dave: [00:00:39] And this is the show where we empower you to study the issues, be a voice, and make a difference in ending human trafficking. Sandie, I’m glad to be back with you. Many times, when we get together for these conversations, you have someone in mind as a guest who is just fabulous on expertise. And today is no different, and in our pre-conversation before this interview, I can just tell there is so much we’re going to learn. So, I’m really excited to be able to introduce Jessica Springer to our audience. She is a graduate of California State University Fullerton Cum Laude with a Bachelor of Arts degrees in both psychology and criminal justice. She obtained her Juris Doctor degree from the University of San Diego School of Law, and during law school, she worked at the San Diego district attorney’s office and later started her own family practice here in Orange County. She is a member of the worker’s compensation section of the State Bar in the Orange County Bar Association. She is bilingual in English and Farsi and is very active in her community serving as a member of the Orange County Bar’s Community Outreach Committee. She’s a busy lawyer with a profound interest in children’s rights, is a member of the Orange County CSEC Steering Committee and is the chair of the Orange County Association’s Human Trafficking Task Force. Jessica, we’re so glad to welcome you to the Ending Human Trafficking podcast.

Jessica: [00:02:05] Thank you, I’m happy to be here.

Sandie: [00:02:07] I’m excited to interview you today Jessica because when I first met you it was because you were volunteering at a summit that we were helping judge Maria Hernandez do. And since then we’ve become good friends. I love to have younger professionals in my life that mentor me as I have the opportunity to speak into your life. So, it’s just a real honor to have a colleague and a friend on the podcast.

Jessica: [00:02:39] Thank you, Dr. Morgan. I think you’re giving me way too much credit, to be honest. I really look up to people like you who kind of paved the way for the younger generation. So, I’m just happy to be here and thank you so much for having me.

Sandie: [00:02:52] So tell a little bit about how you got involved in combating human trafficking. So, the way I got involved was actually a little bit strange. My focus in law school was actually on the dual jurisdiction population. And what that is, I’ll explain that a little bit, when a child gets involved in both the criminal justice system and the dependency system in California. So, they’re either part of the foster system as a dependent, meaning they don’t have a home or a family, and then they also are committing crimes whether it’s a status offense because of their age. So, for examples like smoking, or curfew, or truancy or they actually commit a crime that would be a crime as an adult like burglary or you know robbery or something. So, I was really interested in that population. I did a white paper on it and as I graduated, I started looking for volunteer opportunities, I saw and learned that the majority of the kids that are involved in human trafficking come from this dual jurisdiction population. So, it was only natural for me to say wow this is a big issue for the population that I want to serve. And that’s kind of how I got involved.

Sandie: [00:04:04] Oh I love that story. That’s great. And one of the things that I’ve watched in seeing how you engage the community is you don’t only go to human trafficking events, but you support educating the community about family violence because that’s often the root of kids becoming dual jurisdiction. Right?

Jessica: [00:04:26] That is absolutely correct. I hate to throw out statistics, so I’m just going to say the majority, but we all know that the majority of these young adults and children that get involved in human trafficking have some form of sexual violence, sexual abuse, physical abuse, mental abuse and it usually starts when their children and in the home. So, you’re absolutely correct. It starts as a family unit, and we’ve got to keep that strong in order to prevent not only the crime of human trafficking but also the vulnerability of the kids in that population.

Sandie: [00:05:00] Well and besides doing things on the front line. Well like with the O.C. Bar Associations Human Trafficking Taskforce you also are working from the other side of things as a youth mentor and in the Orangewood Children’s Center, they’re an independent living program. So, you are really a great example of somebody who is approaching this from a very holistic expert position. So, let’s jump into telling us about the O.C. Bar Association antihuman trafficking task force.

Jessica: [00:05:35] Sure. It is actually a new task force, we began it this year. And basically, what it is, is I got a whole bunch of judges and lawyers in Orange County to commit some of their free time, which we all...

156 – Reporting on Human Trafficking: Fresh Perspectives Nov 05, 2017

Show notes

Dr. Sandie Morgan and Dave Stachowiak talk about how broadcasters and journalists can tell the story of human trafficking with new perspectives. They talk about shifting the focus to tell the story of demand instead of just focusing on the rescues, and also discuss why it’s important to look at human trafficking with a public health perspective.

Key Points

We need to challenge journalists to move from awareness to action.
Media platforms need to be careful not to dehumanize victims, protect the safety and privacy of a victim’s identity, and be cautious not to re-exploit victims through the retelling of their story.
Language matters, we want to use terminology that shows the experience of the victim and allows the community to understand the root causes of these issues, such as using “commercial sexual exploitation” instead of “prostitution”.
Media should change the perspective about trafficking to include the demand, healthy community engagement, and public health
Think about trafficking from a public health perspective, which changes the focus from results to prevention.
How can you, in the community, use your expertise and resources to help prevent trafficking?

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155 – Innovation: An Interview with Kenny Henry Oct 22, 2017

Show notes

Dr. Sandra Morgan and Dave Stachowiak talk to Kenny Henry about the human trafficking programs he is involved in and all that he’s learned, including the challenging of finding housing for survivors and the impact substance abuse has on victims.

Key Points

Think about if there are already organizations in your community that would allow you to get involved in the fight against human trafficking.
Housing is a huge need for human trafficking victims.
There are many different types of survivors, between labor trafficking and sexual trafficking and all their subcategories.
It doesn’t matter how informed we are if we don’t have a safe place for victims to go.
Human trafficking is not a new phenomenon, but we now have a much greater awareness of it.
Learn from survivors.
Many survivors are abusing drugs or alcohol, some being forced to and some using it to numb themselves from the pain.

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154 – The Challenge of Substance Abuse Oct 08, 2017

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Dr. Sandra Morgan and Dave Stachowiak discuss substance abuse. They talk about the physiological causes of drug abuse, and what situations are most likely to lead to addictions. They wrap up by discussing how the solution is not in tougher laws against drugs but by local people creating drug-safe communities.

Key Points

Children who have a history of being abused are significantly more vulnerable to human trafficking.
The number one risk factor that leads to using drugs is having a family member with a substance abuse problem.
The US consumes more than 80% of the world’s opioid supply and 21 million people across the US are abusing a substance.
Understanding the brain helps us understand addiction as a physiological issue and not a moral one.
For many children, their first introduction to a drug is from a prescription drug in a parent’s medicine cabinet.
If you start experimenting with drugs as a teenager it astronomically increases your chances of addiction.
Harsher drug laws don’t seem to help prevent drug abuse.
We need to have neighborhood initiatives for a drug-free environment.
Making a community a drug-safe environment is going to take everyday people who care enough to do something right in their own backyard.

Resources

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153 – Homeless Youth: Risk and Resilience Sep 24, 2017

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Dr. Sandra Morgan and Dave Stachowiak discuss the connection between homelessness and both sex trafficking and labor trafficking. They talk about the problems that arise when youths age out of the welfare system and how non-profits need to expand their view of success to include prevention, not just rescues.

Key Points

Youths in early stages of mental development don’t have well-developed ways to manage risk.
The vast majority of youths aging out of our welfare system do not have a plan.
81% of labor trafficking cases involve forced drug dealing.
Humans are naturally drawn to sensational stories, and successfully preventing human trafficking does not attract as much attention as rescuing a victim from human trafficking.
We need to expand what our vision of success is to include prevention.

Resources

https://covenanthousestudy.org/landing/trafficking/docs/Loyola-Research-Results.pdf
https://covenanthousestudy.org/landing/trafficking/docs/Penn-Research-Results.pdf
EHT 15: Homelessness and Human Trafficking – How They Connect
EHT 141: A View From the Bench – Part 2 with Judge Hatchimonji
EHT 22: Succeed Because of What You’ve Been Through with Rhonda Scioritino
105: What You Need to Know About Statistics
2018 Ensure Justice Conference
Coaching for Leaders episode 215: How to Collaborate Across Organizations with Kirsten Foot

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152 – Strike Out Slavery with Deidre Pujols Sep 09, 2017

Show notes

Deidre Pujols joins Dr. Sandra Morgan and Dave Stachowiak to talk about her upcoming event, Strike Out Slavery, and how she’s partnering with the Angels and MLB to educate baseball fans about human trafficking.

Key Points

Strike Out Slavery is working with the Angels to create events that promote awareness for human trafficking organizations in a family-friendly way.
Human trafficking awareness should be taught in schools alongside other ideas like “don’t drink and drive” and “stranger danger.”
The greatest tool to stop human trafficking is prevention.
Parents should be teaching their children about human dignity.
Don’t feel like you have to help every single person from day one — start with the first person, and then keep moving forward. Stay “single-person-minded.”
By helping human trafficking victims reintegrate into society, you’re also investing in the community.

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