An innovative gender-based violence intervention for women who trade sex, are sexually exploited, and/or trafficked

Friday, March 20, 2015: 4:00 PM-5:20 PM
Room 2 (Renaissance Washington, DC Downtown Hotel)
Speaker:
Michele R. Decker, ScD, MPH, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Authors:
Samantha L. Illangasekare, PhD, MPH, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Susan Sherman, PhD, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Nancy Glass, PhD, MPH, RN, FAAN, Johns Hopkins University


Presentation Format:
Innovative/Promising Practice Program Report

Learning Objectives:
  1. Describe challenges and solutions in meeting the violence support needs of women who trade sex and are sexually exploited.
  2. Identify key stakeholders, and a process for engagement in their own communities, to respond to sexual violence against women in sex work and those sexually exploited.
Description:
intervention blends violence-related support and safety strategizing for women who trade sex, with trafficking identification and support.