What happens when the people most impacted by an injustice are not involved in the movement to address it? Nothing good. NSAC2019 beyondthebreakthrough
What happens when the people most impacted by an injustice are not involved in the movement to address it? Nothing good.
I am a part of the CSEC Action Team Advisory Board a group of 12 survivors of commercial sexual exploitation who advise the California Department of Social Services and other agencies throughout California. We are working to help the state implement policy impacting youth who have been commercially sexually exploited.
Some of these barriers require a legislative fix, such as ending the over criminalization of human trafficking victims. Others are perceived barriers, such as an assumption that human trafficking survivors lack education or are too traumatized to be successful. The existence of an advisory board of survivors of a specific form of human trafficking helped identify the gap in offering effective services and is leading to solutions to filling these gaps.
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