Human Trafficking Awareness Conference with Lisa Thompson from Salvation Army National Headquarters – Thursday February 18, 2010

Human Trafficking Awareness Conference For Pastors, church leaders, and other interested individuals.

 Thursday, February 18, 2010

8:30 am Registration/Check-in/Snack Breakfast

 9:00-12:00  Track One

Introduction to Human Trafficking

12:00 Lunch

Q and A

1:00-4:30 pm Track Two

Introduction to Sex Trafficking/Combating Sex Trafficking Lunch will be served.

Certificate will be given to all participants.

Facilitator: Lisa Thompson, Salvation Army, National Headquarters

Sponsored by: Shout!2Stop Trafficking and Jubilee Fellowship

cost: $25.00

Conference Address:

Korean First Baptist Church

8905 Ray Road

Raleigh, N.C. 27613    

 919-961-8859

To register or for more information

 Contact: Adrienne Miller 919-846-6773

Human Trafficking: Stopping Modern Day Slavery – AHEC Training Friday January 15th, 2010

Human Trafficking:

Stopping

Modern-Day Slavery

Friday, January 15, 2010

Registration: 8:00am

Program: 8:30am – 4:15pm

Location

Hope Community Church

821 Buck Jones Rd.

Raleigh, NC 27606

Program Description

Human trafficking, also called modern-day slavery, is now considered the second largest and fastest growing criminal industry in the world; second only to drug trafficking. Healthcare providers play a key role in being able to identify victims and provide treatment and resources. This one-day workshop addresses the prevalence of human trafficking, characteristics of victims, and resources available for referral and treatment.

Target Audience

 Community and professional people working in law enforcement, health fields, faith-based organizations, civic organizations, legal offices, state and county governments, home health and any other interested in learning how human trafficking affects the state of North Carolina

Objectives

At the conclusion of this activity, participants should be able to:

-Define human trafficking.

-Discuss the North Carolina laws pertaining to victims and perpetrators of human trafficking including immigration issues.Identify the characteristics of a victim of human trafficking.

-List community resources available to victims and professionals.

Speakers:

Jennifer Stuart, JD – Legal Aid of NC

Christine Shaw, MSW, BSW – Salvation Army

Chris Brant, MBA – Department of Homeland Security/Immigration and Customs Enforcement

Ellen Blair, MD – Soroptimist International

Laurel Hill-Simeone, MA, LPC – Soroptimist International of Raleigh

Major Mark Nichols

North Carolina Highway Patrol

Ruth Relos, PhD

Soroptimist International

Patricia Witt, BS, PMP

Soroptimist International

Donna M. Bickford, PhD, MA, BA

Carolina Women’s Center, UNC 1. 2. 3. 4.

Agenda

8:00am Registration/Continental Breakfast (provided)

8:30 Welcome

Diane Yelverton, MS, RNC

Ruth Relos, PhD

Patricia Witt, BS, PMP

8:45 Overview of Human Trafficking Definition, Trends,

and Statistics

General Characteristics of Victim

Donna M. Bickford, PhD, MA, BA

9:30 Screening of Documentary Film, “Playground”

Introduction

Laurel Hill-Simone, MA, LPC

11:00 Break

11:15 Debrief of Documentary Film

(Panel of Speakers)

11:45 Lunch in Café (provided)

12:30pm Law Enforcement and Legal Implications

Response in NC

Major Marc Nichols

Immigration Considerations

Chris Brant, MBA

Legal Implications

Jennifer Stuart, JD

2:00 Break

2:15 What To Look For

Mindset of Victim

Interacting with Trafficked Victims

Christine Shaw, MSW, BSW

3:15 Questions and Answers

(Panel of Speakers)

3:45 Resources/ Wrap-Up

Patricia Witt, BS, PMP

4:15pm Adjourn

Please submit questions you may have for speakers to

Danette Charles, dcharles@wakemed.org by

Monday, January 11, 2010.

Credit

Wake AHEC CEU:

.6 (6.25 contact hours)

A participant must attend 100% of the activity to receive credit. No partial credit will be given.

Registration

$40

After January 8, 2010 – $55

(Vouchers not accepted.)

Inclement Weather

Call 919-350-8547 for the inclement weather schedule.

Cancellations & Refunds

No refunds will be issued. Substitutes are encouraged.

Part of the North Carolina AHEC Program

Register online at www.wakeahec.org • Registration Fax: 919-350-0467

or Mail to: Attn: Danette Charles, Wake AHEC, 3261 Atlantic Avenue, Suite 212, Raleigh, NC 27604

This workshop is a collaborative result of interest generated by a series of community forums hosted by Soroptimist

International of Raleigh in early 2009.

ADA Statement:

Wake AHEC is fully committed to the principle of equal educational opportunities for all individuals and does not discriminate on the basis of any characteristic protected by federal or state law. If you require any of the auxiliary aids or services identified in the Americans with Disabilities Act in order to participate in this conference, please call us at 919-350-0457 no later ten business days before the program.

Wake AHEC is fully committed to the principle of equal educational opportunities for all individuals and does not discriminate on the basis of any characteristic protected by federal or state law. If you require any of the auxiliary aids or services identified in the Americans with Disabilities Act in order to participate in this conference, please call us at 919-350-0457 no later ten business days before the program.Wake AHEC is fully committed to the principle of equal educational opportunities for all individuals and does not discriminate on the basis of any characteristic protected by federal or state law. If you require any of the auxiliary aids or services identified in the Americans with Disabilities Act in order to participate in this conference, please call us at 919-350-0457 no later ten business days before the program.

Directions and parking information will be mailed with your confirmation letter.

Soroptomist Private Screening and Discussion: Playground (Jan. 8)

Soroptimist International of Raleigh, NC is committed to raising awareness and fostering action. To learn more about how traffickers entangle their victims and ways we can take action, we invite you, and others you wish to invite, to a free screening of a documentary film, “Playground, Child Sex Trade in America”.

A Private Screening and Discussion
Friday, January 8, 2010, Noon
Hope Community Church
821 Buck Jones Road, Raleigh, NC 27606

Every year an estimated 100,000-300,000 children are trafficked domestically for the purpose of commercial sexual exploitation, and yet theirs is one of the most invisible forms of trafficking. Playground chronicles the problem here in North America. This feature-length documentary follows the stories of several girls who have been trafficked, exploring the cultural, social, and economic factors that make them, and all children, vulnerable to abuse.

Join us for this screening and discussion. Learn more about child sex trafficking and what you can do to put a stop to it.

Café for lunch is available on site. Screening is without charge. For planning purposes, please register by emailing, endingviolence[at]soroptimistraleigh.org.

Sponsored by Soroptimist International of Raleigh, NC.

A note from Change.org

Last week, our Human Trafficking blogger Amanda Kloer started a petition asking Choice Hotels to sign the ECPAT Code of Conduct in order to help prevent child prostitution. Choice Hotels, the owners of the Comfort Inn in North Carolina where five-year-old Shaniya Davis was sold for sex, have refused to sign the code and prevent the trafficking of children on their properties. By signing Amanda’s petition, over 2,000 people have sent emails to David Peikin (Senior Director, Corporate Communications), Anne Madison (Senior Vice President, Corporate Communications) and Steve Joyce (CEO), asking them to sign on to the Code.

We know that the petition is working because we’ve heard back from a Choice Hotels representative, which is why it’s so important for us to keep the pressure up encourage the company to shift its position. Will you help us out by signing the petition?

Please let me know if I can help you with any additional information and thank you so much for your help,

Maria Tchijov, Outreach & Communications Coordinator
Change.org
maria[at]change.org

Human Trafficking: The Role of Healthcare Providers in Stopping Modern-Day Slavery

Join us for a training for healthcare workers (CEU’s will be offered).

Friday, November 6, 2009
Registration: 8:00am
Program: 8:45am – 4:00pm

Location
Johnston Medical Mall
514 N. Brightleaf Blvd.
Smithfield, NC 27277
Directions and parking information will be mailed with your confirmation letter.

Program Description
Human trafficking, also called modern-day slavery, is now considered the second largest and fastest growing criminal industry in the world; second only to drug trafficking. Healthcare providers play a key role in being able to identify victims and provide treatment and resources. This one-day workshop addresses the prevalence of human trafficking, characteristics of victims, related health issues, and resources available for referral and treatment.

Target Audience
Community and professional persons affiliated with law enforcement, health, social services, emergency response, faith-based organizations, civic organizations, legal, government and others who are interested in learning how to respond to human trafficking in North Carolina

Objectives
At the conclusion of this activity, participants should be able to:
1. Define human trafficking.
2. Discuss the North Carolina laws pertaining to victims and perpetrators of human trafficking.
3. Identify the characteristics of a victim of human trafficking.
4. Identify the healthcare needs of a victim.
5. List community resources available to victims and professionals.

Agenda
8:00am Registration/Coffee
8:45 Welcome and Announcements/Day Overview
Diane Yelverton, MS, RNC
Ellen Blair, MD
9:00 Overview of Human Trafficking (Panel, Q&A)
Moderator: Keri Christensen
Definition, Trends and Statistics/Legal, Jennifer Stuart, JD
General Characteristics of a NC Trafficking Victim, Susan Young, BSN, RN
Response in North Carolina, Major Mark Nichols
9:45 Break
10:00 Documentary Film “Playground, Child Sex Trade in America”
11:30 Break
11:40 Debrief of Film (Panel, Q&A)
Moderator: Laurel Hill Simeone, MA, LPC
Libby Spears, Writer/Director
Jacqueline Hall Williams, BA, MAR, MSW, LCSW
Cathy Purvis, MA
12:10pm Lunch (on your own)
1:15 What Do You Look For? (Panel, Q&A)
Moderator: Donna M. Bickford, PhD, MA, BA
Truth vs. Myth-Profile of a Trafficked Victim, Monika Johnson Hostler
Health Issues for the Trafficked Victim, Jennifer Reed Morillo, BS
Working with Trafficked Victims, Dawn Kauffman, BSN, RN
2:15 Break
2:30 Resources for First Responders (Panel, Q&A)
Moderator: Adam Hartzell
How to Communicate with Victims, Christine Shaw, MSW, BSW
Providing for Needs of Victims, Cassandra Carponter
Legal Provisions for Victims, Elizabeth Fernandez and Attracta Kelly, JD
Facts and Referral Card, Patricia Witt, BS, PMP
3:30pm Challenge/Wrap up, Evaluations
Evelyn Foust, CPM, MPH

Please submit questions you may have for speakers to
Danette Charles, dcharles@wakemed.org by Monday, October 26, 2009.

Credit
Wake AHEC CEU: .6 (5.5 contact hours)
A participant must attend 100% of the activity to receive credit. No partial credit will be given.

Registration
$30
After October 30, 2009 – $45
(Vouchers not accepted.)

Inclement Weather
Call 919-350-8547 for the inclement weather schedule.

Cancellations & Refunds
No refunds will be issued. Substitutes are encouraged.

Register online at www.wakeahec.org

This workshop is a collaborative result of interest generated by a series of community forums hosted by Soroptimist International of Raleigh in early 2009.

Child Sex Trade in America

Are there really children in America sold into sex slavery?

Come find out more about domestic minor sex trafficking in the USA on
November 20th, 2009. At 6:30pm on the UNC-Greensboro campus we will be screening the documentary “Playground” which addresses the child sex trade in America. Immediately following we will have an expert panel discussion about the depth of this problem in the USA as well as in North Carolina.

In order to help get children out of the sex trade, the public has to know what to look for.

Visit www.triadladderofhope.org/playground.html to watch the trailer and find out more about the event.

October is Fair Trade Month!

This is a time to understand that the items we purchase every day can impact the global slave trade. That’s a huge thought.

But think about it: if we bought only products that we knew were made by folks who were paid a fair wage, then the companies that exploit people and use slave labor would go out of business.

So, how can we do that?? To be honest, at the moment, it is very hard. So we start with baby steps.
1. Buy locally made products whenever possible.
2. Buy items labeled “Fair Trade” (look for the “Fair Trade” label).
3. Halloween: October is a pretty big month for buying chocolate! This is a great time to make a statement. Don’t give away chocolate that isn’t labeled “Fair Trade”.
4. Gift-giving: The holidays are right around the corner! Buy locally made gifts. If you can’t do that, consider purchasing Fair Trade gifts. Or better yet: Instead of struggling to think of a gift to buy for people who have everything, give to an anti-trafficking/fair trade group in their name.

For more ideas, visit http://www.fairtrademonth.org/.

Nicholas Kristof: Half the Sky: Turning Oppression Into Opportunity for Women Worldwide

Half the Sky: Turning Oppression Into Opportunity for Women Worldwide
September 17, 2009 – 7:30 PM
Duke University, Page Auditorium

New York Times columnist and two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Nicholas Kristof will speak at Duke University about gender inequality in the developing world, the subject of his newly published book, “Half the Sky: Turning Oppression Into Opportunity for Women Worldwide.”

The talk by Kristof, the keynote speaker for Duke’s Jean Fox O’Barr Distinguished Speaker Series, will begin at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 17, in Page Auditorium.

The lecture is free and open to the public and will be followed by a book signing.

Kristof, a Harvard graduate and Rhodes Scholar, joined The New York Times in 1984, initially covering economics. In 1990, he and his wife, Sheryl WuDunn, then also a Times journalist, won a Pulitzer Prize for their coverage of China’s Tiananmen Square democracy movement. “Half the Sky” is co-authored by WuDunn.

Since 2001, Kristof has written a twice-weekly opinion column for the Times, often focusing on global health, poverty and gender issues. Kristof has been particularly vocal about genocide in Darfur, winning a second Pulitzer Prize for his coverage of the region.

The event is sponsored by Duke’s Baldwin Scholars program, WISER, Muglia Family Foundation, DukeEngage, Women’s Studies, Women’s Center, Duke University Center for International Studies, Center for the Advancement of Social Entrepreneurship, Sanford School of Public Policy, Kenan Institute for Ethics and Service Learning.

For more information, go to baldwinscholars.duke.edu.

Sex Trafficking Mini-Symposium at UNC-Chapel Hill (9/14)

Sex Trafficking Mini-Symposium
Monday, September 14
2:00 – 5:00 pm
Tate-Turner-Kuralt Building Auditorium, Room 136
UNC-Chapel Hill Campus

Human trafficking—for the purposes of labor and especially sexual exploitation—is a major problem both globally and locally. The newly-formed Working Group for Research on (Sex) Trafficking is an interdisciplinary network of researchers from Triangle-area institutions dedicated to shedding light on this human rights crisis, with the hopes that sound research will drive sound policy. Please join us for a mini symposium highlighting some of the current and ongoing research projects of the group, from media coverage in the United States to interventions in Nepal. Learn more about trafficking and how you can get involved in research to put a stop to it.

The afternoon will feature formal papers, a poster session, and excerpts from “Machine,” a play-in-progress about trafficking. Light refreshments will be served. Co-sponsored by the Carolina Women’s Center and the UNC Center for AIDS Research Social and Behavioral Science Research Core. For more information, contact Pam Lach at plach[at]email.unc.edu.

The symposium is free and open to the public; registration is not required. Click here for directions and parking information.

Schedule
2:00-3:00pm Session 1: Trafficking Abroad: The International Context
Michelle Kaufman, RTI International, “Shangri-La Revisited: Sex Trafficking in Nepal”

Kinohi Nishikawa, Duke University, “Trafficking and Victimization: The Politics of Responsibility in Lilja 4-Ever”

3:00-4:00 pm Networking Reception, Poster Session and Performance of Machine
Lindsey Haynes, UNC-Chapel Hill, “The Collapse of the Soviet Union and its Effect on the Ukrainian Sex Trade Industry”

Katherine Wikrent, on behalf of Tarheels Impacting Policy (TIP), UNC-Chapel Hill, “Researching Prostitution and the Possibility of Sex Trafficking in the Triangle Area”

4:00-5:00pm Session 2: Trafficking at Home: Trafficking in the United States & Concluding Roundtable with Participants
Anne Johnston, UNC-Chapel Hill, “Framing the Public Debate on the Global Sex Trade”

Cathie Fogel, UNC-Chapel Hill, “Health Implications and Health Care Challenges Associated with Prostitution”

Anti-trafficking walks across NC

There will be a series of anti-trafficking walks throughout NC at the end of September. Check below for the location closest you:

September 26 at 10 am in Greensboro (Oak Ridge): Greensboro@SCTNow.org

September 26 or 27 in Charlotte (location TBA): Charlotte@SCTNow.org

September 27 at 2pm in Chapel Hill (UNC Campus-Forest Theater): Raleigh@SCTNow.org

September 27 at 2pm in Cary (Wake Med Soccer Park): Cary@SCTNow.org

October 3 at 10am in Greenville (Boyd Lee Park): Greenville@SCTNow.org

And in conjunction with the Cary Walk:
Jubilee is participating in the Stop Child Trafficking Now Walk on Sept. 27th at 2PM. We would like to invite people to join for walking or to donate to our team. You may do so by going here. SCTNOW seeks to build funds to support special operative teams who have the training and ability to build prosecutable cases for those who are trafficking and sexually exploiting children. We seek to help send a message to those buying sex from children that this is not okay and we are going to change the state of demand in the US. To find more out about Stop Child Trafficking Now please visit their website.

In order to raise awareness and funds we are hosting an event on Monday, Sept. 21st at Visio Dei Church (524 E. Whitaker Mill Rd. Raleigh, NC 27608). We will be serving Breakfast for dinner buffet style from 6-8PM. The meal is free and we are grateful for generous donations. All of the proceeds will go to support Stop Child Trafficking Now.

Starting at 7:30PM we will be showing the 85 minute documentary “The Playground“. This documentary primarily shows the problem of sex trafficking in the US and is a great way to get people introduced to domestic problems with sex trafficking. Please tell your friends and sphere of influence about this opportunity.

Any questions please contact justiceandjubilee[at]gmail.com

Also, in conjunction with these walks:
The Weekend for Prayer for Trafficking Victims is THIS MONTH-September 25-27! If you have not yet ordered or printed your flyers and prayer guides, please do it now.
a. Log onto www.salvationarmyusa.org,
b. Click on “Programs that help”
c. Click on “combating human trafficking”
d. In the middle of the page, you will see “For resources or to register, click here” or you can go to the bottom of that page and click “Prayer and Fasting Resources”