Estimating the Prevalence of Human Trafficking in the United States: Considerations and Complexities Proceedings of a Workshop (2020) / Chapter Skim
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, brought together statisticians, survey methodologists, researchers, public health practitioners, and other experts who work closely with human trafficking data or with the survivors of trafficking. Participants addressed the current state of research on human trafficking, advancements in data collection, and gaps in the data.
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First enacted in 2000, the TVPA has since been reauthorized by three administrations, and it includes a directive for the president to establish an Interagency Task Force to Monitor and Combat Trafficking. The subsequent Frederick Douglass Trafficking  ictims Prevention and Protection Reauthorization Act of 20182 also inV cludes provisions for victim services and plans to enhance collaboration efforts to fight trafficking abroad.
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, a training tool that teaches health care providers, public health professionals, and social and behavioral health workers how to describe the nature and scope of human trafficking, recognize the verbal and nonverbal indicators, screen and identify individuals who may have been trafficked, and assess the needs of individuals who have been trafficked in order to deliver the appropriate services. Fink acknowledged that the response to human trafficking extends beyond the field of public health to include policy makers and practitioners in law enforcement, advocacy, foreign policy, human rights, and criminal justice.
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The charge to CNSTAT was to organize a workshop that brought together human trafficking researchers, health practitioners, and other experts who work closely with human trafficking data or with the survivors of trafficking to address gaps in human trafficking data, advancements in data collection, and challenges to estimating prevalence; see Box 1-1 for the full statement of task. To address this charge, CNSTAT worked closely with OWH and an interagency group of federal stakeholders to form the Planning Committee for the Workshop on Approaches to Estimating the Prevalence of Human Trafficking in the United States.
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Specifically, the workshop will explore • statistical methods successfully applied to estimating the prevalence of human trafficking in other countries, such as the UK and the Netherlands; • innovative methodologies applied to estimate the prevalence of human trafficking in specific areas of the United States, including Texas, San Diego, and several major cities in the United States; • sampling methods, including time location sampling and respondent driven sampling, which have been used to study other rare or hard to-reach populations, such as homeless persons and people who use intravenous drugs; • definitional and measurement issues in estimating human trafficking through survey questions and administrative records systems; and • methodological and ethical issues in attempting to estimate the preva lence of human trafficking in the United States. • opportunities for data sharing across organizations and institu tions; and • examples of successful policy measures and efforts to collect, share, and analyze sensitive data in other fields and how the anti- rafficking t field could learn from those areas.
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Chapter 6 covers a panel discussion on the connection between human trafficking research and policy making, and in Chapter 7 the workshop planning committee chair, David Banks, revisits the salient points from the workshop and wraps up the discussion. This Proceedings of a Workshop has been prepared by the rapporteur as a factual summary of what occurred at the workshop.
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