Welcome to the JTA/AFT collaboration on Child Trafficking

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Welcome to the JTA/AFT collaboration on Child
Trafficking

• Presenter Ms. Judith Hall
• Educator, AFT Member
• UFT Chapter Leader
• President of the Association of International
  Educators
• March 7, 2014

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No problem can withstand the assault of
sustained thinking - Jean Marie Arouet
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What is Human trafficking?
Human trafficking is a form of modern day
slavery. As defined under US Federal Law,
victims of human trafficking include minors and
adults over the age of 18 induced into commercial
sex.
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They can be involved in commercial sex through
force, fraud, or coercion and for adults and
minors through forced labor, services or
involuntary servitude via force, fraud, or
coercion.
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What are the different types of trafficking?

• Pimp-Controlled Sex trafficking
• Familial and Intimate partner Trafficking
• Gangs
• International Trafficking
• Labor Trafficking
• Sales crews
• Domestic Servitude

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Who are at risk of being trafficked?

• Truants
• Runaways
• The homeless
• Youth in foster care
• Undocumented Youth
• Students with high attrition
• Youth with unstable or abusive home environments
• Youth from households that fall below the poverty
  line

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Who are Traffickers?

• Traffickers can be anyone
• A boyfriend, often times older (10 years)
• Intimate Partners
• A family member
• Gang Members
• Foreign National
• U.S. citizens, males and females
• Acquaintances
• Strangers

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Who are considered school based personnel?

• School based personnel are
• Guidance Counselors
• Social Workers
• School Nurses
• Teachers
• Security Personnel
• School Aides
• Any and all other adult who interfaces with
  children

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Potential Non-Staff Advocates

• Students can be great advocates for their peers
• Teachers are often informed about aberrant
  student behavior from other students

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Signs of Human Trafficking
What signs should school-based personnel look out
for?

• Poor Mental Health or Abnormal Behavior
• Has few or no personal possessions
• Is fearful, anxious, depressed, submissive,
  tense, or nervous/paranoid
• Avoids eye contact
• Poor Physical Health

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• Lacks health care
• Appears malnourished
• Shows signs of physical and/or sexual abuse,
  physical restraint, confinement, or torture
• Lack of Control
• Sexualized speech
• Stories that dont add up
• Sudden possession of expensive items

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What are the risk factors of human trafficking?

• Human Trafficking involves
• Abuses of human rights
• Physical and mental abuse
• Kidnapping (Angela App)
• Rape
• Forced drug use
• Deprivation of liberties
• Sometimes even murder

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Discussion of ways in which school-based staff
can help prevent Child Trafficking and create
some protocols to establish schools as safe
spaces.
Plenary Session