Episode Details

Sandie Morgan and Derek Marsh discuss how anti-trafficking efforts can be adjusted to increase the focus on labor trafficking and how the five P model works strictly related to labor trafficking. They go into depth on being victim-centered and trauma-informed when working with labor trafficking victims and how sex trafficking efforts relate to labor trafficking efforts.

Derek Marsh, MA, MPA

Derek Marsh retired from the Westminster PD, CA, after more than 26 years of service. In 2004, Marsh helped start the Orange County Human Trafficking Task Force (OCHTTF). He served as the co-chair of the OCHFFT from 2004-12. During that time, he developed and taught courses in human trafficking across the state of California, provided oversight to human trafficking investigations, assisted in creating human trafficking DVDs, wrote multiple grants, and provided Congressional testimony twice as a human trafficking expert witness. He has presented anti-human trafficking trainings across California and the United States, Saipan, Italy, and Argentina. He has taught human trafficking undergraduate courses at Vanguard University from 2009 to present. He has served with the United Nations to train Rwandan immigration officials, law enforcement, prosecutors, and NGOs over four intensive seminars in 2017. Currently, Derek Marsh works as the Assistant Director at the Global Center for Women and Justice. He is researching how human trafficking task forces identify, investigate, and prosecute labor trafficking cases throughout the United States through on-site visits and review of historical task force and federal performance documents. He is helping to develop and provide training and technical assistance through the BIA, TTAC, and OVC-TTAC agencies. His expertise in Criminal Justice will contribute to the research, education, and advocacy mission of the Global Center for Women and Justice.

Keypoints

• Most task forces that are grant-funded are structured similarly, however, day-to-day expressions of their efforts are predominantly through the lens of sex trafficking.
• Both sex trafficking and labor trafficking require a victim-centered and trauma-informed approach due to the trauma experienced.
• In order to fill the gap on labor trafficking requires sharing and developing multi-agency and multidisciplinary expertise and resources.

Resources

• Anti-Human Trafficking Certificate
• Enhanced Collaborative Model (ECM)
• The Five P Model
  • Prevention
  • Protection
  • Prosecution
  • Partnership
  • Policy
• Tulare County Human Trafficking Task Force
• Ep. 187 – Why Is Labor Trafficking So Hard To Find? – Rena Shahandeh and Anh Truong
• National Human Trafficking Hotline
• Orange County Human Trafficking Task Force
• T-Visas for victims of human trafficking
• Ensure Justice Conference – March 4-5, 2022