Human Trafficking Is a Public Health Issue

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction to Human Trafficking: Who Is Affected?

   • Jordan Greenbaum

   Pages 1-14

3. Sex Trafficked and Missed

   • Wendy J. Barnes, Holly Austin Gibbs

   Pages 15-27

4. The Lost Boy: How a Forgotten Child Became a Victim of Labor Trafficking

   • James L. Dold

   Pages 29-42

5. Sex Trafficking in the USA

   • Clydette L. Powell, Cyril Bennouna

   Pages 43-66

6. The Ignored Exploitation: Labor Trafficking in the United States

   • Nicole Littenberg, Susie Baldwin

   Pages 67-91

7. Trafficking of Children Within the United States

   • Carol Smolenski, Sarah Ingerman

   Pages 93-104

8. Children at Risk: Foster Care and Human Trafficking

   • Madeline Hannan, Kathryn Martin, Kimberly Caceres, Nina Aledort

   Pages 105-121

9. Sex Trafficking in Indian Country

   • Erin Shanley, Robyn Jordan

   Pages 123-140

10. LGBTQ Youth and Vulnerability to Sex Trafficking

    • Kathryn Xian, Shaylin Chock, Dustin Dwiggins

    Pages 141-152

11. The Multimodal Social Ecological (MSE) Approach: A Trauma-Informed Framework for Supporting Trafficking Survivors’ Psychosocial Health

    • Elizabeth K. Hopper

    Pages 153-183

12. Physical Health of Human Trafficking Survivors: Unmet Essentials

    • Wendy Macias-Konstantopoulos, Zheng B. Ma

    Pages 185-210

13. Trauma-Informed Treatment of Substance Use Disorders in Trafficking Survivors

    • Elizabeth K. Hopper

    Pages 211-230

14. The Development and Psychology of Young Minds: Communities Can Prevent Exploitation and Facilitate Rehabilitation

    • Sandra Gasca-Gonzalez, Dianna L. Walters

    Pages 231-249

15. Legal Supports for Trafficked Persons: Assisting Survivors via Certification, State/Federal Benefits, and Compensation

    • Lennon Moore, Brendan Milliner

    Pages 251-262

16. NGOs and the Anti-Trafficking Movement: Advocacy and Service

    • Valerie Schmitt

    Pages 263-276

17. The Role of Faith-Based Organizations in the US Anti-Trafficking Movement

    • Jeffrey Barrows

    Pages 277-291

18. Research Informing Advocacy: An Anti-Human Trafficking Tool

    • Cathy L. Miller, Michelle Lyman

    Pages 293-307

19. Caring for Survivors Using a Trauma-Informed Care Framework

    • Annie Lewis-O’Connor, Elaine J. Alpert

    Pages 309-323

20. Sex Trafficking in One US City: Traditional Policing and Boston’s Shift to a Survivor-Centered Response

    • Donna Gavin, Cassandra Thomson

    Pages 325-346

This clear-sighted reference examines the public health dimensions of labor and sex trafficking in the United States, the scope of the crisis, and possibilities for solutions. Its ecological lifespan approach globally traces risk and protective factors associated with this exploitation, laying a roadmap towards its prevention. Diverse experts, including survivors, describe support and care interventions across domains and disciplines, from the law enforcement and judicial sectors to community health systems and NGOs, with a robust model for collaboration. By focusing on the humanity of trafficked persons, a public health paradigm broadens our understanding of and ability to address trafficking while adding critical direction and resources to the criminal justice and human rights structures currently in place. 

Among the topics covered:

• Children at Risk: Foster Care and Human Trafficking
  
• LGBTQ Youth and Vulnerability to Sex Trafficking<
• Physical Health of Human Trafficking Survivors: Unmet Essentials
  
• Research Informing Advocacy: An Anti-Human Trafficking Tool
  
• Caring for Survivors Using a Trauma-Informed Care Framework
  
• The Media and Human Trafficking: Discussion and Critique of the Dominant Narrative

Human Trafficking Is a Public Health Issue is a sobering read; a powerful call to action for public health professionals, including social workers and health care practitioners providing direct services, as well as the larger anti-trafficking community of advocates, prosecutors, taskforce members, law enforcement agents, officers, funders, and administrators. 

“An extraordinary collection of knowledge by survivors, academics, clinicians, and advocates who are experts on human trafficking. Human Trafficking is a Public Health Issue is a comprehensive offering in educating readers on human trafficking through a multi-pronged public health lens.”

Margeaux Gray: Survivor, Advocate, Artist, Public Speaker

• public health and human trafficking
• paradigm shift
• human trafficking and the US
• domestic minor trafficking
• CSEC (commercial sexual exploitation of children) in the US
• labor trafficking in the US
• survivor-centered care
• trauma-informed care
• direct service provision
• mental health and human trafficking
• law enforcement and human trafficking
• public health-centered prevention and intervention efforts
• anti-trafficking prevention and intervention
• history of human trafficking in the US
• anti-trafficking movement
• opioid epidemic and trafficking

• Department of Emergency Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, USA

  Makini Chisolm-Straker

• Department of Emergency Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA

  Hanni Stoklosa

Makini Chisolm-Straker, MD, MPH, Assistant Professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine at The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, Mount Sinai Brooklyn; co-founder and steering committee member of HEAL (Health Professional Education, Advocacy, Linkage) Trafficking; advisory board member of End Child Prostitution and Trafficking (ECPAT-USA).


Hanni Stoklosa, MD, MPH, physician, Department of Emergency Medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School in Boston, Massachusetts; Executive Director and co-founder of HEAL (Health Professional Education, Advocacy, Linkage) Trafficking. 

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