Confronting Commercial Sexual Exploitation and Sex Trafficking of Minors in the United States A Guide for the Health Care Sector (2014) / Chapter Skim
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4 How Health Care Professionals Can Help
4 How Health Care Professionals Can Help
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. Models of Care Health care professionals lack evidence-based models to use in identifying and assisting victims of commercial sexual exploitation and sex trafficking of minors.
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Intimate Partner Violence and Child Maltreatment Many health care professionals have been trained to recognize victims of intimate partner violence and child abuse, and these skills could potentially be adapted for use in identifying victims of commercial sexual exploitation and sex trafficking of minors [29, 36]
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It also has worked with those who deal with victims of interpersonal violence, including police investigators and health and mental health care profes sionals, to serve victims of commercial sexual exploitation as well as domestic violence victims [20]
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Education and Training of Health Care Professionals As discussed in Section 3, a lack of training is a significant barrier to the ability of health care professionals to identify victims and survivors of commercial sexual exploitation and sex trafficking. To help overcome this barrier, a growing number of organizations providing services to victimized or at-risk youth are offering education and training programs for health care professionals [26, 48, 49]
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In collaboration with the University of Texas School of Public Health, it developed a curriculum titled "Health Professionals and Human Trafficking: Look Beneath the Surface, H.E.A.R.a Your Patient" for front-line health care professionals and health care organizations [53]
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. Specifically, it is recommended that the tools be used by BOX 7 Examples of Tools for Identifying Victims and Survivors of Commercial Sexual Exploitation and Sex Trafficking The following tools have been developed to assist health care profession als in identifying victims and survivors of commercial sexual exploitation and sex trafficking: • apid Screening Tool for Child Trafficking and Comprehensive Screening R and Safety Tool for Child Trafficking: Two screening tools developed by the International Organization for Adolescents for use as a guide in identifying minors that are potentially being trafficked [54]
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. Moreover, health care professionals who identify victims and survivors of commercial sexual exploitation and sex trafficking of minors likely will need to refer patients to other specialists, including mental health professionals and local nongovernmental organizations/agencies that can meet the specific mental health needs of these youth.
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http://www.state.gov/j/tip/rls/reports/pitf Examples of state and local efforts include the following: • Washington State -- Washington state's Model Protocol for Com mercially Sexually Exploited Children for responding to cases of com mercial sexual exploitation and sex trafficking of minors is focused on fostering collaboration and coordination among agencies, improving identification of these crimes, providing services to victims and sur vivors, holding exploiters accountable, and working toward ending
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Specific work groups focus on legislation, assistance for victims and survivors, law enforcement practices (e.g., arrests, investigation, and prosecution of exploiters and traffickers) , and physical and mental health care.
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(Human Exploitation and A Trafficking) Watch is a multidisciplinary, multisystem program that brings together individuals and agencies from law enforcement, health care, advocacy, victim and support services, the courts, proba tion agencies, the commercial sector, and the community to (1)
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