Trafficking Data and Findings Checklists Handout
Description
Judges attending the session will discuss lessons learned and implementation ideas from the two presentations OTIP presented on help they provide to child trafficking victims. You can view the May 2023 session here and the October 2023 session here.
This peer-to-peer session for judicial officers offers a detailed discussion among judges about the steps judges can take when they encounter child victims of human trafficking in their courts. Faculty cover the judge’s roles in ensuring that immigrant child trafficking victims are referred to the Office on Trafficking in Persons (OTIP) at HHS for trafficking determinations that grant the child access to public benefits. Judges can play a role in assuring that U.S. born and foreign-born trafficking victims receive the help they need from the Trafficking Victim Hotline, OTIP and Office of Victims of Crime funded programs. The conversation includes helpful findings judges can make and trauma informed approaches that judges can use in their work with child sex and labor trafficking victims.
Faculty
- Judge Melissa Hemstreet, Judge, Kitsap County, Washington, Girls Court
- Judge John J. Romero, Jr. (Retired), Judge, Second Judicial District Court, Children’s Court Division, Albuquerque, New Mexico (New Mexico State Team)
- Leslye E. Orloff, Director, National Immigrant Women’s Advocacy Project (NIWAP), American University Washington College of Law
Additional Webinars and Peer-to-Peer Sessions and materials for judges on human trafficking including sex and labor trafficking of children and adults
Sessions Relevant to Child Trafficking Victims
- National Judicial Network Peer-to-Peer Forum – HHS’ Office on Trafficking in Persons (OTIP) Answers Questions on Identifying and Reporting Child Trafficking Victims (May 2, 2023)
- *National Judicial Network Webinar – Familial Trafficking: What Research Tells Us About Risk and Opportunity (June 6, 2022)
- *National Judicial Network Peer-to-Peer Forum (December 7, 2021): DC Court’s STAR Assessment Tool Training: Helping Courts Identify Child Trafficking Victims
- *National Judicial Network Peer-to-Peer Forum (October 5, 2021): Online Trafficking and Recruitment Trends for Child Sex Trafficking
- *National Judicial Network Peer-to-Peer Forum: Child Labor Trafficking in the U.S. – An Overview of Research, Policies, and Opportunities (May 3, 2022)
- *National Judicial Network Peer-to-Peer Forum: Commercial Sex Trafficking of Young Males (April 5, 2022)
- *National Judicial Network Peer-to-Peer Forum: The Development of the Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children (CSEC) Courts (February 7, 2023)
- *National Judicial Network Peer-to-Peer Forum: Trauma-Responsive Advocacy for CSEC Youth, the Model Rules, and Better Dependency Outcomes (November 1, 2022)
Sessions Relevant to Child and Adult Trafficking Victims
- National Judicial Network Webinar (October 10, 2023) – Identifying Human Trafficking in Domestic Violence Relationships: How OTIP Letters and Certifications Can Enhance Access to Public Benefits and Services for Survivors of Trafficking and Their Children
- *National Judicial Network Peer-to-Peer Session (May 4, 2021) Human Trafficking Victims Identification & Red Flags
- *National Judicial Network (July 6, 2021): “Judicial Responses to Labor Trafficking
- *National Judicial Network Webinar – Criminal Justice Responses to Asian Women Caught in the Cross-Hairs of Exploitation and Human Trafficking (January 11, 2022)
- *National Judicial Network Webinar – We Are Not Invisible: Improving Awareness of Human Trafficking Issues in Indigenous Communities (July 5, 2022)
- *National Judicial Network Peer-to-Peer Session (September 14, 2021): Cultural Competence and Its Importance in Immigration and Human Trafficking Cases
- National Judicial Network Peer-to-Peer Forum (September 12, 2023): Using Public Benefits Map & Charts to Improve State Court Orders in Crime Victim Cases
Human Trafficking Research
- Trafficking Social Science Research Data Sources Chart (January 25, 2021)
- Social Science Human Trafficking Research Findings: Tools for Courts (January 25, 2021)
- Ginny Sprang & Jennifer Cole, Familial Sex Trafficking of Minors: Trafficking Conditions, Clinical Presentation and System Involvement (February 13, 2018)
- Senate: Adequacy of the Department of Health and Human Services’ Efforts to Protect Unaccompanied Alien Children from Human Trafficking (January 28, 2016)
- Katherine Kaufka Walts, Child Labor Trafficking in the United States: A Hidden Crime (2017)
- In Our Own Backyards: The Need for a Coordinated Judicial Response to Human Trafficking (2013)
- Human Trafficking and Domestic Violence (April 2015)
Training Tools
- Office on Trafficking in Persons Child Certification Handout
- Office on Trafficking in Persons Adult Certification Handout
- Human Trafficking and Domestic Violence: A Primer for Judges (2013)
- Domestic Violence and Involuntary Servitude as Human Trafficking (August 17, 2023)
- Resource Guide: Improving Awareness of Human Trafficking Issues in Indigenous Communities