News. She is a graduate of law school in 2008 and passed the bar exam in new jersey and pennsylvania. She is able your and journalist. She is a lawyer and journalist. For thatank you introduction. This is such an incredibly important topic and i am sorry it does not get more media attention. I am more than excited to be here today to talk to all of you about this important issue. Panelists tothe introduce themselves, talk about what kind of work they are doing. Andrea, i would like to start with you. Got us about what what brought you when and what you do. Thank you so much for having me here today. It is truly an honor to be here with you guys. Thank you for understanding how important it is to have survivors speak on this issue. Than a few years ago, and so this is an exciting day for me to be here and just to share with you guys what we are doing in atlanta. I am a survivor, as you guys know. 20 years ago and have been out for 10. I am the Program Coordinator of the same program. Bit over thelittle years. Currently we serve women 18 years old to 32 years old. We have a 16 bed facility. Our program is 16 to 18 month long. We really do go from the initial stability, safety, sobriety, all the way through hopefully living wage employment and independents is our ultimate goal so women dont have to go back to the life they came from. We have a licensed professional an individual has session with the women each week. We also work on skills. Things like behavioral therapy, which teaches the women they dont have to run away from things when they feel uncomfortable, and we hope to empower them to ask questions and use their voice and stand up and be something different. We have comprehensive care, as i mentioned. Thingsthe most important for our organization is survivor leadership. The mayor is constantly asking, what do you think about this . What does the survivor say . We have a few Survivors Network in our organization. We have been around for a long time. Program, wen the did not have any resources for employment after the program. Nobody would hire me. Have any kind of Work Experience apart from waitressing or working in a restaurant. Wellspring decided they would give me the opportunity to prove myself in starting out as a cashier at our retail store. Thankfully, the women that currently go through our program dont have to go through that anymore. They have built a partnership with another organization, and they get living wage jobs in a corporate setting. We offer paid apprenticeships. Confidenceheir improves to them they are worth it. People will give them a chance, no matter what their background looks like or what their work history might look like. Off. Going to pass it mary i got into this work on most by accident. We were working on issues going on in atlanta and in connection was a nonprofit there need for a residential facility. We thought we were just going to hope that Organization Get it started, but about 30 days into it, it became hours. The very first young woman over 16 years ago who walked through our doors was a survivor of trafficking. We weret know what doing anyway, and we really didnt know what to do with her. Us everything we needed to know. But of the things that is most important for someone that is going to be involved with survivors is to understand there are a lot of complex needs, as you heard in panels earlier. We look at how can we look at that whole person . How can we take care of their mind, body, and spiritual needs . How can we comprehensively provide the things that are most needed by them . As andrea said, we had a situation we didnt have an opportunity to get them into good employment opportunities, because it was hit or miss. An executive called me one day and said we want to help your women get jobs. They were willing to do the hard work of figuring out, what is this going to look at and what to look like and what do we already have and how can we Work Together . It was pretty unprecedented. We learned a lot from each other, but what is happening now four years later is that we are seeing young women come in and over a 10 week period, they are getting professional development, therapeutic counseling, having life skills,orking alongside caseworkers making sure they have everything fory to walk in the door their professional development. As we have done that, right in the middle of our very first session, i reached out to the same person again and said, we really need internships. And they said we cant do that, but we can do paid apprenticeships. That was music to my ears. We said yes, and so they go through 10 weeks of the training and have 12 weeks paid apprenticeship. Because they have connected with other corporations, there will be other opportunities to get jobs. Their employees are amazing. They have voluntarily committed , it isg like a mentor called a navigator. Because it helps our young women and employment. We are seeing 86 employment as a result. Just to see so many of our young women go through this, you can speak to that better than i can. Andrea absolutely. Just to see the light come back. They go for their first we can they come home and say, let me tell you what i did today. They are so excited and they have confidence again. They believe in themselves, because somebody elses believing in them. Some analysis saying you can do it. Keep pushing, dont give up. It is almost an extension or a different arm of what we are doing at the home. Is well awareon of the issues some of our women face, especially in a corporate setting. They are willing to do the hard work and get in, and it is not always pretty come and it doesnt always look perfect. The women that go through that program are better off. That is our goal. It is not about how pretty it looks or putting it in a box or looking cookiecutter. Paula thank you. Me . An you hear good. Physician at the Childrens Health care of atlanta in the middle director and the medical director there. Mostly withis children in child trafficking and exportation. Most of what i know involves children under 18 years old, but a lot of what i see in our practice is mirrored in the Adult Population of low. We see an extraordinary amount of physical and Mental Health effects from child and adult trafficking during to name a few about onewn research, third of the girls we identify have a history of pregnancy. These are kids that are less than 18 years old. Almost 50 of them have an active sexually transmitted infection when we see them. They have gonorrhea or chlamydia. One third of them have a prior history of infection. Drug use is common, almost 90 use drugs. Study, use another 75 of them had posttraumatic stress disorder. When you think of that, you think of Vietnam Veterans and people who have been through horrendous things. They have been through horrendous things themselves. A prior0 reported history of a Suicide Attempt within the last year. These are adolescents. 50 trying to take their own lives. We know there is tremendous Health Effects associated with trafficking and exploitation. It is mirrored with the Adult Population as well. It is important for Health Care Providers to be aware of the possible indicators of trafficking. Tore is Good Research suggest that many victims of sex trafficking in the United States have contact with Health Care Providers. Andne study of adults adolescent girls who are stuck trafficking survivors, 88 said a Health Care Provider while they were being exploited. It says victims are coming to get health care but were not recognized. We have yet to see a victim come in and say my concern is Human Trafficking. They dont self disclose spontaneously. It is up to physicians and nurses to be aware of possible indicators, and yet, we have no training on that. Most providers in the United States had never been trained on Human Trafficking, so they have no idea what to look for, what to say, how to act if they have a concern. We are concerned about providing , culturally appropriate informed response to possible trafficking. It is important that the Health Care Provider doesnt further traumatize the victim when they come and seek medical care. At the same time, we have to ask questions so we can identify club identify victims. We need to get information to Health Care Providers. One thing that is important is not only train Health Care Providers about what to look for, what to say, but also put into place specific guidelines. Think about the clinic you go for go to when you seek your annual checkup care or the hospital you go to, every one of those places should have a protocol saying this is what you look for if you see these five things. Think about Human Trafficking. After you think about it, ask these questions. When you get positive question positive answers, make this referrals, do this exam. We do but that would be. Thank you. Think you for having me. My name is jeff rogers. Andrea, i will just say that it is an absolute honor to be on a panel with you. Every survivor i meet changes my life. Is reason i do what i do because of meeting survivors like you. That is why i do what i do. I came out of the corporate world. I was at ibm for 15 years. My wife got rocked with the truth of what is happening in our country around stopping sex trafficking. The u. S. P sounding institute against Human Trafficking with kevin malone, who is were who is with us today. He was the former manager of the u. S. Doctors. He comes out of a professional career in baseball. When we got together, we started talking about this topic of Human Trafficking. Dedicated five to six years. When we started talking about the problem, one thing that we found common between us is that we truly believe we can end this problem. That is the foundation of the organization we run is that our mission is to end Human Trafficking in america. It is a bold statement, but we believe we can. We believe, as an organization in society, we must. Of the social issues that our society faces, i have got to believe, and it is why i am here today, we collectively can end the mass organized rape of our nations children for profit. Of all the problems we face, we should be able to stop that one. That is where we are at, and organization committed to ending this. One of the first things we did is we started a safe home for young boys. We truly couldnt find very Many Services around the country that were dedicated to services for young boy victims of sex trafficking. Ago we started the program. It is a small residential facility with five beds for young boy victims of sex trafficking in central florida. These are boys aged 10 years old to 17 years old. The program is designed for biologically born males, no matter where they identify on the gender spectrum. Is important, because as we began their work towards understanding the male population of trafficking the dumb boys, we begin to understand of Trafficking Victim boys. We begin to understand we designed the program to address and take care of any child biologically born male, no matter where they are in the gender spectrum. It has been running about eight months. The boys are doing well. That is what i like to say on the back end of the problem. Rehabilitatione, of the survivors that are trapped in this. That is important. We have to do that. Our mission is to end this. What we recognize is we will not end Human Trafficking by opening safe homes. We must have services in place for the rescue and rehabilitation of survivors. This,are going to end of we have got to change the approach and we have to add to that, and therefore we moved to what i consider to be the beginning of the problem, and the focus therefore on demand. In my six years old focus on this problem, i have come to an understanding that sex trafficking is a supply answer to a demand problem. The problem lies in the demand. Where is the demand coming from, and is it something new . The demand for sex is not something new. Insatiableing, desire for sex with children in our society is something new. It is running rampant in our society. Where is that coming from . As we focus on demand, we are trying to get to the absolute core of where is this coming from, and our friends at an organization are truly leading the charge across the world, proving the effects of pornography and our hyper sexualized culture that is driving this insatiable desire for sex and the purchase purchase of sex, including with children. Together. King they have done a masterful job with other organizations to begin to identify the Public Health crisis. Are workingthing we with the Florida Legislature on. I think it will pass this year, identifying pornography as a Public Health crisis in the state of florida. That is where i am from. Have got to begin to understand as a man and we have understand the demand and we have to chop it off. Capturing focus on the bad guys, pack capturing the bad guys, capturing the traffickers. The greatest amount of focus our country needs to place right now is on the demand, on the buyers. If we had a scenario where we could rescue every single victim of sex trafficking in the country today, i would contend that tomorrow a we have is an incredible vacuum of supply that the traffickers would absolutely fill within a matter of time. It is a business equation, unfortunately. We have got to address the demand. How do we do that . Trafficking free zone program. This is an identification of promising practices around the country. Im looking at this from a is this perspective. At this from a social services perspective, and neither is my cofounder. , in his past with building championship teams, he is saying, how can we build a World Championship team across this country to end Human Trafficking . We are looking at this from a business perspective to say what can we do differently . One of the things i would contend, from a business when, is to say that this industry is right for consolidation. There are thousands of nonprofits around the country, and we need to do a better job of all the them working together. One of the things we are focused best the repetition of practices, replication of promising practices. How can we identify who has been successful and a certain slice of their focus and how can we help them replicate that around the country . In the years i have been involved, more people are becoming aware of the problem, and that is a good thing. Are losing the battle. The problem is getting worse. We have got to change something about our approach. We are very focused on this approach of replicating promising practices. For years, we worked to identify , who has been successful around the country . We have been a dinner we have been able to identify pockets of success. We pulled them together into a local Services Engagement for local communities to begin to address demand. Successes weeatest found was in king county around seattle and the county prosecutor there and the amazing work they have done in order to address demand. One of the things that he said so poignantly with that certain communities around the country, when the institute something with the criminal justice system, they will see some level of benefit. When a community might institute something with their education system, they would see some benefit level. Countyey found in king and what we found elsewhere in other pockets around the country is that when all of these sectors of society run after demand at the same time, and that is when they have seen a true demonstrable production in demand. By pulling together at the modular approach of criminal justice, the education system, businesses in the community, the healthcare industry, the technology industry, the faithbased organizations and churches, but they have found is that when all of these organizations chased after demand at the same time as limassol this reduction. Them ashave hired consultants, they have been gracious to provide the details of what they have done. We put this together and what we call our trafficking freezone program, which is a Services Engagement for local communities to implement, to snuff out demand within community. To county ofd florida declared themselves to be the first trafficking freezone county within the United States. Our goal with this is replication. We have got to identify what is being successful and rapidly replicate that. That is the trafficking freezone program. I think societally we need a shift. We have to grab hold of this and understand that as a society it is not ok that we have an entire young generation of children growing up with ready access to hardcore, deviant, violent pornography. Thatrd one experts say pornography is one of the greatest unchecked social experiments that our world has ever seen. Isill tell you this train coming. I think the train and perfect storm is here where we have a young generation of kids that have access to hardcore, violent pornography on their cell phones at age nine years old, 10 years old. They are growing up addicted to pornography. That is shaping their sexual template. At some point, they move from visualization to actualization. We can get very real on where this insatiable desire comes from. Pornographyization, is within our society. Five minutes before i came appear, i went on amazon and purchased a book on how to become a pet. Pimp. To become a fors a learning tool someone who wants to learn how to violently control women. This book will show up at my home on sunday. Seriously, as a society, it is time to get serious about the way we are approaching the topic of sex with children, sex sex with children, pornography, and the hyper sexualization in our society. You all offer Incredible Services and support, but how do you make survivors aware of the services you offer . Lets start with you all offer e dr. Gre enbaum. Jordan much of the referrals we servicefrom victims providers as well as Law Enforcement child protective services. Child victims coming forward and saying i need help. That very reasons is few victims realize they are being exploited. They dont see themselves as needing or wanting our reach and tell. It becomes difficult. The focus so we are not waiting for these children to come to us, but instead they are coming to our Emergency Departments and infection clinics. We just have to get better at figuring out who they are. Who is at risk among the 20 kids that will be seen today . Who is at risk for trafficking and how can we talk to them in a way that conveys a message should them that if they need our help, we are here to provide it. We cant enforce anything, but we can make it clear we want to help if we can. We work with young women, and they come in to our program voluntarily. We do a lot of ways of connecting with Community Partners them on force that. They know the work we do. We have written a couple of books that have been published, that has let it be known across the nation. We get referrals from people out of state. Girls, weour younger work with girls who have been trafficked on ages 12 years old to 17 years old. Those come to us from the department of family and childrens services. We have great relationship with the fbi. They come in under temporary custody. They are with us a year. We are workinge, alongside government partners to create a plan of care. Sit withl gets to everyone that cares about her and she decides what her goals are, and we work with that by providing individualized therapy, group therapy, family therapy, because she has got to go back home somewhere. We have to start working on that the day she walks in the door. We are a residential treatment facility, so there are schools. We get the opportunity to do hybrid academic curriculum so they can be on their own individualized pathway for school. Unfortunately, most of them come in at least a year behind, but they are very smart. Andrea is an example of that. These are smart, very resourceful girls and women that we have the great opportunity to serve. Access toe given services, they do great. Thing i want to be sure you know is that not only are we working with women, but also girls. Our partnerships are very strong in both programs. There is where that is where we get a lot of referrals. On the topic of the boys home we have, the identification of the kids comes through the department of children and families within the state of florida. Florida has a pretty advanced system. They have a Human Trafficking kids withinput the the foster care agencies through to identify if there are , thatcking indicators they have potentially been trafficked. If so, they are identified as potential for needing services. That is the main mechanism of how the kids are identified, the boys that are identified. Finding and itre is going to be interesting to see over time, because i think we have heard for years about the differences between boys and girls that are trafficked and the fact that boys do not identify by and large as a victim. They do not identify as a Human Trafficking victim. We are finding that to be extraordinarily true. The extraordinary cases of trying to get a young boy to identify that they have been either trafficked or sexually abused and that they are in need of this kind of, care has been extremely difficult. We are recognizing, even though this home has been open for seven months now, we are on a longterm plan of a poet with the state of florida longterm plan of a pilot with the state of florida on how to identify these boys. I am talking about transgender females as well. Had we find these kids in the system or on the streets, and then secondarily, the other difficulty is that because in the state of florida it does have a safe harbor law there, and it is a wonderful thing, but findinghe things we are is an unintended consequence of state harbor is the children begin to understand that they are a victim and they cannot be prosecuted, and they therefore have certain rights. For example, several of the boys that were identified as Human Trafficking the dems, as survivors, declined the ability to come in because they did not want to enter that kind of a restrictive safe home environment. We have several cases of young boys under the age of 17 in florida were be no they are survivors, and yet, because of the way the law has been set up, the have the ability to decline that care. This is going to be a longterm pilot. It will be a longterm process to better understand how do we identify these kids and how do we make sure we are giving them the traumabased care they are in need of. My next question. If the new few can get survivors even if you can get survivors to begin your services, had you keep them consistent . Some of your girls, you get temporary custody. Speak to the talent of the keeping women and girls, boys consistent with services. Andrea one of the challenges is our girls dont want to be there. They are there because the state says they have to be there. Many times, they are not happy. I will say to you that the most important thing we can do is care for them and love them and serve them, no matter how they respond. That is very different than the culture they came from. We have to build a trust relationship with them in a much better way than the way the trafficker did. Many times, they will come in and they might think they are in the greatest placed ever, then they change their mind. It is important, the consistency. In an approach where we are going to be looking for how we can strengthen who they are, so we dont look at the way they present, but we look at their strength. As we are calling out and saying, hey, i see that you can really express how you feel, that means you know how to advocate for yourself. They dont know what to do for that. They dont know what to do with that. That makes them curious and makes them want to stay. I think school is the first thing that makes them want to stay. School is working. I might be able to get my diploma. They never thought they could do that. That is important. The way ourct of girls and women feel like they can stand the program is because we also work with a lot of volunteers. A lot of people bring in great care for them, tells them they are worth it. It may be the first time they have ever had a birthday party. We celebrate a lot. As you celebrate them, it helps them to believe, maybe this is hard, but it is better than where i have been. I think those are key factors on how they stay. I think we have to be realistic. It is often a case of being retrafficked and retrafficked, and we will see the same child every three or four months as they are picked up again by the police and brought in, then they are back on the street and brought in again. We have to have this approach theseays we will meet children, these adults where they are. If they are not ready to exit, we cannot force them. We have to offer them services and offer them alternatives, but we have to accept we cant rescue them initially and make their lives perfect right after that. We have to be aware of all of the complexities of labor trafficking as well. Labor trafficking is just as big an issue. There are complex issues by people may not be ready to leave their situation. They feel very bad they arent able to send money home to their families, but they still owe this debt. What is their family going to say if they went home . They have all these reasons why they feel they have to stay. It is a complex thing. It is hard to engage people and have them do them the way we want them to do things. I wanted to piggyback off of what you said, meet them where they are. People wantant that to help, sometimes we think we know what is best and we try to put participants survivors, victims, whatever term you want to use in a box. Surely, you would want to take advantage of this, because look at this beautiful home, and look at the people that love you. Is meet them where they are and ask them what they think is best for them. Ask them what they need to be successful. Ask them what has worked in the past. The women have, up until the time they enter our program, they are of life. They have survived. They are supersmart, super creative. They have resources that they may not even realize they have. Pointing those things out, not giving up when they dont modify the behavior in a way we think they should. Ave had a person who sent had a participant yell at me and say i wish you would just stop loving me, because they are not used to the kind of love that is not conditional and not something they have to give back favor,ack or return the things like that. Definitely meet them why they are. They are the experts in their care. Ofvice providers have a lot experience, education, but the survivor is the number one expert in her recovery enter care. Her recovery and her care. Paula we talked a little bit about protocols before the panel. How do you develop protocols for different populations, different contexts. Can you talk about how you guys go about developing your protocols . I feel like i am a broken record a little bit. I think i am i feel like i am a broken record a little bit. I have worked at the Residential Program now seven years. Our participants have changed to medically over the years. Changed dramatically over the years. The word is getting out. The girls are different, the women are different than they were when i started. Reevaluate some of that, what is working, do more of it, what is not working, be willing to change it. Couple peopleto a earlier, and this is so exciting to me, because historically, Law Enforcement, judges, parole officers, probation officers havent worked well with the Residential Programs. Over the past years, there protocols are changing. Starting tore really ask us what they need to do to make this young lady be successful. Monday, i had a federal judge flying in from minnesota to have a status hearing with a young lady instead of asking her to come to minnesota and go to the court. I wanted to give one more shot out to minnesota and all of the work they are doing. They are getting creative about how to serve survivors. I think the number one thing about protocols is being willing to reevaluate them, maybe change them, may be bent little bit, not be so strict. Be something that doesnt fit with the protocol, being willing to get creative and maybe think of a different way. Jordan i think one of the biggest things to get a Team Together and have her protocol is to be very flexible and have cross training. We need to understand what other people are doing. I am a physician. What like understand about Law Enforcement . It took us three or four years to get together a team to discuss child sex trafficking cases every month. We meet every month and we talk about cases. We have people from my enforcement and the das office, etc. He write him, desk here rem am, a very impatient person. When we got to one of these cases and it was a child sex trafficking case, they said lawenforcement is not going to do anything with the case. I get hot under the collar and say why not . Person turns to me and says, well doctor, maybe you need to listen to what we we dont have the evidence. He proceeded to tell me about what he does. It was enlightening. I thought, now i get it. Interaction where you learn what the challenges are from each other, and so we at of a medical end, but lawenforcement see the different. To me it is crosstraining and being able to learn from each other and being willing to be flexible. I will build on that when you talk about learning from each other. Obviously, groups can get together across the country and try to learn among themselves with what they have done, but i will go back to the point of learning from one another. The ability to replicate protocols that have been successful, identifying those them of being able to repeat. , you are clearly one of the leaders in this country when it comes to residential facilities for sex Trafficking Victims and survivors. Do forhave seen you years is open up your doors and help train others. Safe homes across the country and campuses that are either open or preparing to open already based upon the training you have provided. That is key for us, to recognize that there are people who are willing to open their doors, open their books and sure but they have learned over time. That is how we will expedite this fight. Even with our home, we couldnt find is another boys home somewhere in the country to replicate. What we did do, we knew we would a small, residential facility. We identified a small, residential facility for girls florida and worked with that organization in order to take what they have for girls and mirror that for boys. Now, begin to build on that and learn. We began working with the university of south florida to do outcomes and studies on these kids over time muscle then again, begin to share that information around the country. We are beginning to publish what we are learning to share with others. We know several other boys homes that are beginning to look at the process of opening. Repetition continued of the topic of rep. Keating promising practices. The topic of replicating promising practices. Paula im going to go to another issue. After you find something that is working, how do you find resources . What lessons have you learned and what has worked for you . Geoff specifically to the boys safe home we have opened, we started with the model from the girls home program and be routed to a boys home program. Mirrored it to a boys home program. We expedited that significantly. It gave us tremendous credibility the global for donors and say here is the program. It has been successful. We will be opening this. We were able to raise a significant amount of money the purchase of land, building the home, etc. Than the state of florida came in, they stepped up and provided us with operating funds. Safe home licensing in the state of florida for victims. There is a higher process of that. There is an entire process of that. We have to have the staff trained before the licensing process begins. There is a tremendous amount of money that is necessary to start a program with that. Then, ongoing funding, the majority is coming from a per diem rate from the state of florida coming out of the Child Welfare system. Resort jordan resources i look to is an organization that is an International Organization of professionals interested in looking at Human Trafficking three Public Health wednesday they have put together a toolkit on how to create a multidisciplinary team. If you have health care in your Community Hospitals that are interested in learning more, i would sex preferring them to that organization, hell trafficking. Trafficking. Andrea when we started, there were no resources. Opened a retail store, which which isll store a resale store to help us with funding. People didnt understand they were victims. Of one on ones with people and begin to meet people that had great foundations that helped us. Today, we have funding that comes through local state funds that sustain us. Somebody that sees there is so much more to do, we would love to find a resource who could help us move to the next level, because i believe we can off has said, if we can replicate best practices, it we can resource people that want to start a programs so that we would be training them and best practices. One of the things we try to do is do fundraisers with our partners. These people in different communities say they are willing to work with each other so the Bigger Picture can happen, so i feel like if we can create a way that we can move the Movement Forward with more funding, cotton wasrichard telling me at lunch, there is they werede able to confiscate we 5 million than what was spent last year on Human Trafficking from the government. We need to step up the funding. Id appreciate the effort to make that happen. One of the programs we talked about was your program that helps women get into corporate jobs. Paula one of the programs we talked about was your program that helps women get into corporate jobs. Open it up to audience questions, did you want to give hello. Coming into the program as a survivor i was not sure what to expect. I was able to learn a lot through the professional Development Classes with the business communication number. Those classes really helped me to give the assent of why was, a sense of selfworth. Also, a sense of competence in myself, it gives you that companies that you believe that someone believes in you. I think that going through the academy was the segue for me to where i am now in life. I am no studying prelaw and political science. I wanted to come to give back to victims and survivors like myself just to have that bit of hope. They give me that hope. That is all i have to say. [applause] we want to open this up to any questions for our panel from the audience. Does anybody have a question . I amdoes anybody have a ques . Evelyn from the Judiciary Committee staff, did you talk a little bit about what we know these organizations exist, investigators come in, they break up the trafficking ring and the victims are devoted into services. How does the process work . Are doj have providers that there waiting to take these people in . How long do they stay there . The happens to them after case is resolved . Transferred to other agencies later . Im just curious about how that all works. I will give you a case study. We have great relationships with the ei so there was a young girl several months ago that was recovering recovered in a sting. There was a victim liaison. She starts speaking to the young woman, the young girl. Of course, she was not happy and was not saying nice things to amend about amanda said i want to take you to a place with your own bedroom and your own bathroom and when you are ready to talk to me, let me know. Weeks go by and the therapist called and said so and so needs to tell you something. Amanda comes and meets with the girl and we find out that she was actually trafficked in and the traffic was up for prosecution and the attorney decided that she needed to go moved to atlanta and connected her with someone in atlanta. That is where she was rescued. When she was able to get the information to the fbi and the fbi was able to prosecute was in atlanta but also the one that was trying to avoid prosecution and the attorney. That is how we work with lawenforcement. We were with all the partners. After they leave us they get a mentor and we stayed in contact with them but they will continue that case and so we are working with how they reenter back into this custody of where they need to be. It is a process of working with all the partners and again, we are focused on what is best for that girl. Every case will look different because were focused on the survivor. At first, with the women as far as they are concerned, normally have a works, i have good relationships with a lot of fbi advocates, the electric Human Trafficking hotline has my number. So, not about the services that we offer the become and get most of the time will call and say i met this young lady, do you guys have any open beds because i would present your program to her. For adults, i cant get a referral from the Victim Advocate, we cant force women to come to our program so the Victim Advocate does some work as far as presenting our program, presenting the resources, presenting the opportunities, presenting the paid apprenticeship is one of the things that they do. Then they have the young lady call me, we have a screening process for her to come into the home. It is still all voluntary, even court mandated. These cases can leave anytime they want to. That is the other half of the buyin and our amazing staff and meeting her where she is in getting her what she needs when she comes in. There is a tremendous and not variation in the sense that not everybody goes to a residential treatment center, many children are sent home or there in foster care, they readily from home, they get involved in trafficking and effort back in the group home and all of these situations it is very common for kids to run. They may have services put in place but they are not ready to and they go back, it is a cyclical thing. It is not a oneshot deal. I have a threepart question but they are all related. First i love that you were talking about the fact that for children you are taking referrals from fbi, juvenile justice and i know in some states, florida in particular that if you have contracts with state agencies you are not allowed to accept referrals with children who are referred from other agencies so if it is a child where belt welfare referral you can only be serving from Child Welfare. I am assuming that is not the case in order. Georgia. Correctly georgia says that any child of centralized location can be served. Welfarehink that child being mandated to take on these cases and be the Referral Agency is helpful or do you think other options would be better . Finally, on that note, do you programs, a lot of times with those state agency referrals, it is a mandated service. How are you accounting for kids that dont want to be dead that are still trial abounded and may want to recruit others in the program . We get our referrals from the department of children and family services. Their child comes in and of course, we get the coverage to cover the cost of that without a per diem. We have had Great Success working with partners, we really have, they have been the most , they come tole their meetings monthly. They are therefore their special celebrations and they are therefore their graduation. We enjoy the partnership. I dont know that there is a better way but it has worked for us. To the second part of your stion it is all about how did you prepare and prevent the recruitment of you . As they come in, one of the things we have to know is that they probably arent ready, they are being mandated to us. The opportunity for us to meet them where they are, let them say what they want to say, dont tell them anything about the trafficker. We cant tell them that is wrong, they have to see that for themselves. Exposing them to where they are maybe helping them to understand that they have been exploited. With women,that they dont see they have been exploited at first but generally, about 60 or 90 days andconsistent care consistent therapy, they begin to see that and move away from the trauma bond. It is very hard to break. There is no doubt about that, it is very hard to break. Say youg i will mentioned florida. We do have a very specific license important for kids. There is the ability and the service kids that are in the Child Welfare system. We were talking about, we call them the Community Kids. We do have the ability to serve them in the same facility, we just need to expand our license a little bit. There is a secondary license that allows us to bring in these Community Kids. A really good thing ive seen happen in florida is that the department of children and family has recognized the number of Community Kids that are out there that need help that are not in the Child Welfare system. As a result of that they had now begun to open up on things dreams from the department of children and families to help these Community Kids to give them the Residential Care they need. We think it is very progressive. It is very needed for these kids that need this help. Thank you panel, i am a survivor of trafficking, i have a question but i just wanted to say that i have two honorary doctorates and i just finished my phd. It is taking forever and i would encourage you to go all the way. Youre such an articulate young woman, you could be in better hands. I would to think thank job jeff rogers. The whole metoo thing left hollywood and as a survivor i saw that men are the biggest part of the issues. I will the directors and producers now but the first audition they thought she is a great actress but i played a rape victim. I dont imagine was that the difficult. We haveout demand and 65 men that have gone through that program, commission five of the attorney general. I wanted to ask the panel what you think we need to do nationwide and in our states to effectively and easily mitigate the issues with men and with fathers and the prevention of Human Trafficking so we can go after the demand even before it anpens because that is entire other conversation that many men are not ready to have. I will say that youre one of my heroes so i mentioned that means survivors is really what has led me to commit my life and my wifes life to this cause. Has off to you. So, a lot of people call this john possible. Understand, it is a school for buyers that have been arrested to mitigate them from doing that again. Of tolly a matter me, recognizing that these kinds of schools are necessary across the country. There is shortterm, longerterm, i think all of them have varying levels of success but i think all of them also show a significant level of success so every community out there, this is a mandate that this is a program that is necessary, courtappointed were anybody that has been arrested for solicitation. I think that is key. Boys, my boysoung are 13, 10 and seven. My boys are also a major reason why my wife and i have stepped into this. As we learned what is going on across the country i would come home from trips around the nation learning about what is happening to our kids and specifically boys. I would come home to my family and there is my boys. I am looking at this and it is this dichotomy of this insane reality of here is my kid and someone the same age i just learned what happened to that young boy. Started thet program, we just created it within a matter of two weeks we got our first phone call from the state of florida and an official who didnt know we were dumping yet had heard about the program and they had a young boy in tampa bay and they were trying to find a place for him. My oldest boy was 10 years old and so it is this shocking reality of what is happening out there to these young kids so i look at my young boys and i want to raise them not to become a biased sex. So how do i do that . Kidstill values with those of how teacher young women. The problem that we have is i will go back to pornography. Everything i can still in my kids about how to treat women well, all they need to do is get a hold of pornography videos that are free online, one click away on a cell phone and they will see the ultimate degradation of women in our society. So they are growing up with this conflict. To me it is a matter of educating these young boys on what it means to become what it means to be a man. Educating them on the value of women and how not to treat them and i think a lot of that can be done in our school system. In the education systems, the curriculum we can put in place in the high schools and in the middle schools there is a lot of controversy. A lot of parents dont want their kids educated on this topic. Whenever i hear that all i will say is go and spend a day with your child in the high school. You understand the topics they are being talked about anyway. Ive always said that when parents say i understand youre talking about sex trafficking, i have my child with me is it ok for them to hear what you have to say . We dont always show anything graphic. Well say anything graphic but what we do is tell the truth. Young tohild is too understand what i am saying, it is going to go over there head. Old enoughs to to understand what we are saying, it is about how to treat women. I really believe that we need young, three and fouryearolds, telling them turning them about healthy relationships and how to respect one another so we are not only reaching boys and telling them to respect boys but we are reaching girls. A culturalhas been shift to get away from this sexual justification of women you have to go to girls and boys. If we really concentrated on same five and six wrote kids about respecting their bodies and respect in the bodies of other people, you are getting it much more than trafficking, are doing child sex abuse prevention, youre doing all sorts of violence prevention from an early age. By the time they get to 15, they realize there is a lot of respect for my fellow man, my fellow student. Whennk getting them young they are kids, talking to them about healthy relationships. In our final 10 minutes, my question is to open it up to final thoughts. Have you seen any increase in attention or anything positive coming from the me too conversation going on right now and how has that impacted your organization . The very first thing we could child sexas exportation, that is what was happening to every young woman that was walking through our door. Unfortunately, the conversation is out there. Truthy we are seeing the that all of us have known for a long time, this is really happening and we cant ignore it anymore. I think that is the greatest thing about the me too movement, it put in front and center so we cant ignore it and i believe it women. Lped our young boys and girls to know that it and maybe that is another benefit from it. That is what i was going to speak on, the strength in numbers. You feel like this is going on that this has ever happened to. You start seeing famous people saying that it was me too, this has happened to me as well. It is an unfortunate circumstance and it empowers the ifanyway to also say she can be read and speak up about this, maybe i can too. Maybe i can talk to somebody about this, sharing stories is hard and if just one person hears something that we are me too if that empowers one woman to speak up and share her story and get some help, i think the movement is productive and positive. It addresses some stereotypes. It says that anybody can be sexually exploited. Anybody can be. That is a powerful message that Everybody Needs to hear. I wish we had the same sort of wakeup call as labor trafficking. People would come forward and say i am being exploited in labor. Can i do say on the topic of awareness, it is critically important that we continue to push the envelope on raising awareness, i would imagine that most everybody in this room is educated on the topic of Human Trafficking and sex trafficking in our country. That once ifor me became aware of it, whats my eyes were opened, once i became educated it was like i began to see everywhere. Myselfver time i found believing that everybody else that know about it. Interestingly, maybe 50 of americans understand some concept of what Human Trafficking is. This is the reality and magnitude of what is happening within our own country and with our own kids. So even though there has been a big push in awareness it needs to continue. This is the firstever summit on the topic. Toruly believe that we have get this more focused on fighting trafficking inside our own nation not only nationally but right here in the United States. We needed at the Community Level as well. The push on education and awareness has to continue even thath many of us may feel everyone has to know about this at some point but they still dont. Thank you so much for a wonderful panel and as someone who covers the Justice Department it is great to hear so many positive kind word about the Justice Department. Thank you so much for sharing all your experiences. On newsmakers this weekend, our guest is tim phillips. He talks about the groups plan to to help keep the house and senate in republican control. He also discussed the legislative agenda and helps for entitlement reform and slation to adjust. On q a, author bill james talks about his book the man from the train in which he investigates one of the deadliest sillier colors in american history. Many of the times happen within 100 yards of the Railroad Track and one of the things that helps us identify his crime as opposed to somebody elses is that it usually happens at the intersection of to Railroad Tracks. It is at the intersection of two Railroad Tracks because he knew he had to get out. Yet to get out of town for don and he didnt want to be stranded there waiting for a train to come through that he could hop on. So the intersection of multiple Railroad Tracks give them more opportunities to get out of town before the crime was discovered. Sunday night on cspans q a. Next, the White House Council of economic advisers, he talks about tax reform, wages and global investment. From Georgetown University law center, this is 40 minutes. My pleasure to introduce our speaker