A Bush Foundation Community Innovation Grant Report book featuring The Enitan Story (TES) at 10.
This report book features a three-year project implemented with the collaborative efforts of Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) with Lived Experience, state and local governments, and nonprofit organizations.
TES is grateful to all the workgroup members, community experts, and the Bush Foundation for inspiring a statewide change that provides hope to individuals who have experienced labor trafficking and labor exploitation by fulfilling the goal of the project to raise awareness and consciousness of Minnesotans as much as they currently do of sex trafficking in the state.
Without much ado, you can download a copy of the report here.
The Labor Trafficking Convening Training
In addition to the report book, we would like to share two training videos from the Labor Trafficking Convening for those who participated online and couldn’t see the video and those who were not able to make it to the event or are interested in learning about labor trafficking and how to engage survivors of human trafficking as subject matter experts with lived experience for better outcomes for individuals experiencing trafficking.
Audience for the training include but are not limited to:
Direct Service providers
Social Workers
Healthcare professionals
Law Enforcement
Legal Service Providers & Attorneys
Academia
Researchers
Video 1: A Meaningful Approach to Engaging Survivors as Subject Matter Experts
Learning Objectives:
Help the audience understand the role of Subject Matter Experts with lived experience for collaboration to influence policy change for better outcomes for victims and survivors of trafficking.
Help the audience to learn how to combine the strengths of Subject Matter Expert Survivor leaders and those of state agency and nonprofit organization staff for effective collaboration in the anti-trafficking work.
Help the audience learn how to identify and collaborate with various Subject Matter Experts with the lived experience in an equitable manner and the benefits it brings to use the right approach to engage survivors, survivor leaders, and survivor-led organizations.
Help the audience to learn the distinct roles of SMEs with the lived experience and how to differentiate it from survivors receiving direct service.
Three Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) Consultants with Lived Experience, Honorable Ronny Marty, Honorable Bella Hounakey, Kilomarie Granda, and moderated by Amanda Colegrove, Minnesota Department of Health delivered a training on survivor engagement.
Video 2: A Multidisciplinary Approach to Responding to Labor Trafficking
Learning Objectives:
Help the audience understand the effect of nonprofit and government agency collaboration to influence policy change for better outcomes for victims and survivors of trafficking.
Help the audience to learn how to combine the strengths of Subject Matter Expert Survivor leaders and that of state agency staff for effective collaboration in the anti-trafficking work.
Help the audience learn how to identify and collaborate with various partners to meet the needs of individuals who have experienced labor trafficking.
Help the audience learn the role of law enforcement in identifying and connecting victims and survivors of labor trafficking to services.
Presenters: Caroline Palmer, JD. Safe Harbor Director, MDH, Agent Bobbi Jo Pazdernik, DPS Assistant Special Agent In Charge, Predatory Crimes, Section, Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, Honorable Ronny Marty, Subject Matter Expert (SME), Honorable Bella Hounakey, Subject Matter Expert (SME), and moderated by Sarah Ladd, JD. Human Trafficking Child Protection Program Coordinator | Child Safety and Prevention Unit, DHS.
Bonus: Remarks by Office for Victims of Crime (OVC)( Director, Ms. Kristina Rose
