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Addressing Human Trafficking in America's Schools: Staff Development Series
Department of Education, 2021
This training program provides educators with an introduction to human trafficking prevention. It includes three brief videos that provide information key to identifying potential trafficking, generating appropriate school-level responses, and efforts to prevent trafficking of students. Each video includes comments by both content and lived experience subject matter experts, as well as reflection questions for educators to consider individually or as a group.
Addressing the Growing Problem of Domestic Sex Trafficking of Minors Through Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports
Department of Education, 2021
This brief highlights the broader issue of domestic minor sex trafficking (DMST) and suggest a framework for integrating school-based prevention and intervention strategies through Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS). It includes a brief review of DMST and connections to PBIS and a discussion of how actions within the PBIS framework may help prevent DMST and provide assistance to student victims and their families.
Trafficking Prevention
Department of Education, Department of Health and Human Services, Department of Homeland Security, and Department of Justice
This webpage provides an overview of youth human trafficking and includes resources, trainings, programs, tools, and guides to help members of the youth-serving community recognize children who may be on the path to becoming victimized and report suspicions to the appropriate authorities.