Faithful Action: Preventing Exploitation & Human Trafficking Among Youth in a COVID Environment

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To commemorate this month, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Center for Faith and Opportunity Initiatives is hosted a webinar to highlight youth prevention educational programs, strategies and resources to counter exploitation and human trafficking in a COVID environment.

Date: January 28, 2021

Time: 2:00 pm - 3:15 pm

Location: Virtual

Event Details

The month of January 2021 is National Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention Month as issued by the President’s proclamation. This proclamation highlights some of the recent efforts to combat human trafficking across several agencies, and it includes the critical role of faith‑based and community organizations that provide survivors with vital services. The proclamation also identifies a comprehensive National Action Plan to Combat Human Trafficking (NAP), built around the “three pillars” of the Victims of Trafficking and Violence Protection Act of 2000 TVPA:  prevention, protection, and prosecution. And, the proclamation highlights the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) newly launched Center for Countering Human Trafficking

To commemorate this month, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Center for Faith and Opportunity Initiatives is hosted a webinar to highlight youth prevention educational programs, strategies and resources to counter exploitation and human trafficking in a COVID environment.

We recognize that youth have been impacted by the COVID pandemic in multiple ways, and to help prevent further harm, we hope to share youth prevention strategies and resources to counter the detrimental effects of exploitation and/or modern-day slavery in all of its forms. 

Presentations included

  • An overview and clinical perspective of youth vulnerability in a COVID environment
  • Prevention strategies and cultural sensitivities in supporting youth impacted by trauma
  • A panel discussion with three non-profit youth prevention educational programs
  • Resources from the Department of Health and Human Services, Office on Trafficking in Persons youth prevention education program
  • Resources from the Department of Homeland Security’s Blue Campaign

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