Episode Details

Dr. Sandie Morgan and Dave Stachowiak revisit the important influence of health care providers on human trafficking victims. They discuss new resources that have moved away from awareness, and into a more training focused aspect in order to identify and assist a trafficking victim. They discuss the significance of health care providers creating a four-step plan to assist victims through a safety plan, knowing how to refer, understanding mandatory reporting, and establishing a protocol.

Key Points

• S.O.A.R. (stop, observe, ask, and respond to human trafficking) has provided new resources for health care providers, see below.
• The first part of a plan to assist victims is safety. A safety plan can include having resources available to give victims.
• Along with this, is knowing how to refer victims to the proper resources.
• The next step for health professionals is understanding the mandatory reporting requirements and steps to take for a victim-centered approach.
• Protocols are complicated and require a lot of processes, quality assurance, and a legal team. However, once that is in place, frontline health care providers will be empowered to actually identify and assist human trafficking victims.

Resources

• S.O.A.R. Training
• Brochure for Health Care Providers 
• Brochure for Health Care Providers – Spanish
• National Human Trafficking Hotline Card
• Human Trafficking Training for Nurses Video
• 36 – Why Healthcare Providers Matter and What They Can Do
• 59 – One Love for Nurses

• 106 – Health Consequences of Human Trafficking

• 159 – What is a Medical Home?

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Transcript

Dave: [00:00:01] You’re listening to the Ending Human Trafficking podcast. This is episode number 185, Educational Resources for Health Care Providers.

Production Credits: [00:00:10] Produced by Innovate Learning, maximizing human potential.

Dave: [00:00:30] Welcome to the Ending Human Trafficking podcast. My name is Dave Stachowiak.

Sandie: [00:00:35] And my name is Sandie Morgan.

Dave: [00:00:38] And this is the show where we empower you to study the issues, be a voice, and make a difference in ending human trafficking. Sandie as we were preparing for today’s conversation on educational resources for health care providers, we were discussing some of the past episodes that we’ve aired. Actually, a bunch of episodes specifically diving in with health care providers and some of the resources availab