Click on one of the following links to find ideas for fighting human trafficking with your career:

Thursday, January 3, 2008

Social work

  1. Love146 (www.love146.org) focuses on aftercare, recognizing the importance of loving safehomes and aftercare facilities for survivors of human trafficking. Love146 offers diploma and certificate Training Program in Aftercare (TPA) that train caregivers to work with victims of child sexual exploitation. Love146 itself opened a safehome in the Phillippines and has partner safehomes in Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam and the Phillippines.
  2. International Justice Mission (http://www.ijm.org/) has opportunities for foreign nationals of select countries, like India and Kenya. IJM has job opportunities for social worker, aftercare manager and aftercare specialist (psychological counseling).* IJM coordinates lawyers, aftercare workers and investigators for a powerful approach to stopping human trafficking and oppression.
  3. Florida State University Center for Advancement of Human Rights (http://www.cahr.fsu.edu/internships.html) offers its social work students the following internships, from which other social work students and professionals may garner new ideas: refugee centers in Spain, AIDS treatment centers in London and South Africa, torture treatment centers in USA, and domestic violence shelters.
  4. As a provider of social services, you are in a key position to identify victims of human trafficking. The US Department and Health and Human Services has developed brochures to help you identify and help these victims: http://www.acf.hhs.gov/trafficking/campaign_kits/index.html#social.

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