Combatting Labor Trafficking A NEW FRAMEWORK

Combatting Labor Trafficking

A NEW FRAMEWORK

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In the last two decades little has changed in our collective ability to identify and investigate cases of labor trafficking and provide support to victim. The existing framework is broken, we need a new approach. This session offers a new framework for addressing labor trafficking. Developed based on ten years in the field working with service providers, law enforcement, task forces, policy makers, and community members, this new framework offers four steps for building better capacity to understand and respond to labor trafficking in any jurisdiction. Attendees will gain a better understanding of why labor seems so elusive, and learn more about the four key components necessary to better develop community capacity to respond to the issue.

This is part-one of a learning cohort around labor trafficking consisting of a series of trainings that will build successively on each training. Please join us!

Approved for Ohio CLE Replay Credit.

Combatting Labor Trafficking A NEW FRAMEWORK

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Participants will be able to describe two challenges and shortcomings in existing efforts to respond to labor trafficking at the community level
Participants will be able to describe two key steps necessary to improve outreach, training, and identification of labor trafficking
Participants will be able to identify one concrete action step they can take to improve efforts to respond to labor trafficking in their agency/jurisdiction

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Erin Albright
Erin Albright is an internationally recognized anti-trafficking expert with over a dozen years of experience establishing, guiding, and funding initiatives of all sizes and at every stage of development. Her work focuses on building capacity to combat labor trafficking, development and operations of multi-disciplinary teams, and improving law enforcement responses to human trafficking. A subject matter expert for the International Association of Chiefs of Police, the United Nations Office on Drugs & Crime, the US Commission on Human Rights, and the California Office of Emergency Services, she has also worked globally with countries from Armenia to Uzbekistan. In the United States, her partners and clients range from the Department of Justice and the American Bar Association to 23 state and local task forces. Her most recent accolade was a three-year Visiting Fellowship with the DOJ’s Office for Victims of Crime, where she focused on improving victim-centered response strategies, developing capacity building tools and trainings for labor trafficking, and building multidisciplinary collaboration to respond to human trafficking. Her previous experience includes positions as the Coordinator/Director of the New Hampshire Human Trafficking Collaborative Task Force, Regional Program Director for the private operating foundation Give Way to Freedom, and Data and Outreach Specialist for the Boston Police Department’s Human Trafficking Unit. She has served as the co-chair of the Freedom Network’s Policy Committee, and co-Chair of the Boston Bar Association’s Human Trafficking Committee. She is a graduate of Mary Washington College, and Boston College Law School, and a member of the Massachusetts Bar. In 2016 she received a Commendation from (former) New Hampshire Governor Maggie Hassan, and formal recognition by ICE/HSI and Senators Jean Shaheen and Kelly Ayotte for her work on behalf of survivors and with the NH Collaborative Task Force.

References:

Colleen Owens, & Farrell, A. (2015). Understanding the organization, operation, and victimization process of labor trafficking in the United States (pp. 348–354). Urban Institute. http://link.springer.com/10.1007/s12117-015-9257-9

Desai, N. K., & Tepfer, S. (2017). Proactive Case Identification Strategies and Challenges of Initiating Labor Trafficking Cases. United States Attorney’s Office Bulletin, 65(6).

Weil, D. (2010). DOL Improving Workplace Conditions Through Strategic Enforcement.pdf. Boston University.

This presentation was produced under grants 2020-VM-BX-0003 and 2020-VT-BX-0080 awarded to AO: Advocating Opportunity by the Office for Victims of Crime, Office of Justice Programs, U.S. Department of Justice. The opinions, findings, and conclusions expressed are those of the grantee and do not necessarily represent the official position of the U.S. Department of Justice.