Principal Investigator:
Heather Clawson
Caliber, an ICF International Company
Prepared for:
Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning
and Evaluation (ASPE)
Office of Refugee Resettlement
(ORR)
U.S. Department of Health & Human
Services
This Project is available on the Internet at:
http://aspe.hhs.gov/hsp/07/HumanTrafficking/
This project developed information on how HHS programs are currently addressing
the needs of victims of human trafficking, including domestic victims (i.e.,
citizens and legal permanent residents), with a priority focus on domestic
youth. The project provides in-depth and timely information to help
HHS design and implement effective programs and services that help trafficking
victims overcome the trauma and injuries they have suffered, to regain their
dignity, and become self-sufficient. Components to the study include
a comprehensive review of relevant literature, studies or data (published
or unpublished) related to providing services to victims of human trafficking
(including domestic victims); nine site visits to geographic areas (e.g.,
counties) containing at least one HHS- or federally-funded program currently
assisting victims of human trafficking; at least three brief reports highlighting
interesting, innovative, and/or effective experiences, knowledge, or information
resulting from one or more of the site visits; and a final report providing
a synthesis of all information obtained under the study. The Office
of Refugee Resettlement (ORR), which manages HHS programs serving trafficking
victims, is partially funding this study with ASPE.
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Medical Treatment of Victims of Sexual Assault
and Domestic Violence and Its Applicability to Victims of Human
Trafficking, April 2010
This Issue Brief examines the procedures and protocols that currently exist
for assessing and treating victims of domestic violence and sexual assault
in health care settings in an effort to begin evaluating their applicability
to victims of human trafficking. This topic was identified at the National
Symposium on the Health Needs of Human Trafficking Victims.
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Evidence-Based Mental Health Treatment
for Victims of Human Trafficking, April 2010
This Issue Brief examines the evidence-based research for treating common
mental health conditions experienced by victims of human trafficking. This
topic was identified at the National Symposium on the Health Needs of Human
Trafficking Victims.
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Study of HHS Programs Serving Human Trafficking
Victims, Final Report, December 2009
This is the final report produced under this project and includes an
executive summary at the beginning
of the report. The report summarizes and synthesizes all of the information
obtained under the literature review, the site visits, and the National Symposium
on the Health Needs of Human Trafficking Victims, and draws upon the issue
briefs produced under this project.
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Human Trafficking Into and Within the United
States: A Review of the Literature, August 2009
This comprehensive review of current literature on human trafficking into
and within the United States focuses on surveying what the social science
or other literature has found about the issues of identifying and effectively
serving trafficking victims. A more specific focus concerns the phenomenon
of domestic trafficking (trafficking involving U.S. citizens
or lawful permanent residents, often within the U.S.), the impact on domestic
youth, and the availability and/or effectiveness of services for these victims.
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National Symposium on the Health Needs of Human
Trafficking Victims, Post-Symposium Brief, July 2009
This Issue Brief presents an overview of the major topics discussed at the
National Symposium on the Health Needs of Human Trafficking Victims sponsored
by ASPE and held in Washington, DC, September 22-23, 2008. The brief
focuses on the post-presentation discussions and suggestions of
participants. The Brief contains links to the Symposium materials.
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Addressing the Needs of Victims of Human
Trafficking: Challenges, Barriers, and Promising Practices, July
2008
This Issue Brief focuses on the needs of victims of human trafficking and
the services available to meet those needs. Additionally, it discusses
challenges and barriers to providing services to victims, international and
domestic, adults and minors, and highlights innovative solutions to these
challenges and promising practices to overcome barriers. Throughout
the brief we make distinctions, where appropriate, between international
adult victims, international minor victims, and domestic minor victims.
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Case Management and the Victim of Human
Trafficking: A Critical Service For Client Success, June 2008
This Issue Brief focuses on the importance of case management in working
with international victims of human trafficking from the point of identification
until a victim reaches self-sufficiency. This brief looks at the
characteristics of an effective case manager along with the benefits not
only to victims, but also other key stakeholders, including law enforcement
and service providers. This brief also examines the challenges to effective
case management and the implications for victim recovery.
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Treating the Hidden Wounds: Trauma Treatment
and Mental Health Recovery for Victims of Human Trafficking, March 2008
This Issue Brief focuses on the trauma experienced by most trafficking victims,
its impact on health and well-being, some of the challenges to meeting
trauma-related needs of trafficking victims, and promising approaches to
treatment and recovery. While this issue brief touches on trauma across
human trafficking populations, it has a special emphasis on trauma resulting
from sex trafficking of women and girls.
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Identifying Victims of Human Trafficking: Inherent
Challenges and Promising Strategies from the Field, January 2008
This issue brief focuses on the identification of international and domestic
victims of human trafficking in the United States. Critical to identifying
someone as a victim is knowing first who meets the legal definition of a
trafficking victim. This brief presents the inherent challenges to
identifying victims based on the legal definition, as well as promising
strategies undertaken by law enforcement, service providers, and other
organizations to identify and reach victims.
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Finding a Path to Recovery: Residential Facilities
for Minor Victims of Domestic Sex Trafficking, September 2007
This issue brief focuses on minors who are victimized by sex traffickers
across the U.S. It is intended to provide practical information about
the characteristics and needs of these minors and describe the type of
residential programs and facilities currently providing services for this
population. The promising practices discussed here were identified
by directors and staff of residential facilities housing and serving minor
victims of domestic trafficking, juvenile corrections facilities, programs
for runaway and homeless youth, child protective services personnel, and
law enforcement.
Project Officers:
David Nielsen and Jerry Silverman
ASPE
To obtain a printed copy of this report, send the title and your mailing
information to:
Human Services Policy, Room 404E
Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
200 Independence Ave, SW
Washington, DC 20201
Fax: (202) 690-6562
Email: pic@hhs.gov
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