Friday, March 30, 2012: 10:20 AM-10:40 AM
Yerba Buena Salon 7 (San Francisco Marriott Marquis)
Presentation Format:
Poster
Learning Objectives:
- Analyze the legal and medical frameworks for protecting domestic minor victims of sex trafficking.
- Evaluate the language and cultural sterotypes of sex trafficking, which are barriers to institutional outreach to domestic minor victims (ie, defining a child as a victim vs. a delinquent determines whether legal action is taken against the child vs. against the perpetrators of exploitation).
- Describe model legal-medical collaborations at the local level which might better address the needs of victims and bring traffickers to justice, promoting a healthier community.
This session will describe the medical-legal collaboration to reframe institutional responses to commercially sexually exploited children/victims of domestic minor sex trafficking, between Asian Health Services (a federally qualified community health center in Oakland, California) and the National Center for the Prosecution of Child Abuse of the National District Attorneys Association in Washinton, DC.